Reports tell us that a couple from Tamarac, Florida is being held captive in Haiti. Their family members say the kidnappers are holding them for Ransom. Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife Abigail were in Haiti for a festival and family visit.
They were on a bus from Port-Au-Prince when they were taken. At first the kidnappers demanded $6,000 for the couple’s release. After the family sent that amount, the kidnappers raised it to $200K per person.
The couple went missing on March 18th of this year and they have a 2 year old child who misses them dearly. Their niece Christie Desmres released a statement saying “I do have the worst-case scenario playing in my head, but obviously I don’t want that to happen, We just want to hear their voice as proof that they are still alive.”
ABC News is reporting that the U.S. Department of State has not confirmed a Kidnapping but are aware that two U.S. citizens are missing in Haiti. Right now Haiti is under the “Level4: Do Not Travel” advisory. The ranking is attributed to reports of crime, kidnapping, and civil unrest. Praying for their safe return.
Which Florida City Made The List With Highest Murder Rates In U.S.
There’s lots to love about the Sunshine State, but we’re also notorious for the craziest crimes. One Florida city even ranked in the top 15 for highest murder rates in America. It’s not really a list we love to see Florida on, but we can’t say we’re not surprised with all the insane stuff that happens here.
Our friends at neighboorhoodscout.com ranked the top 30 cities in the country with the highest murder rates per 1,000 residents. They condensed their research by including cities with 25,000 or more people. They collected their data by the number of murders reported to the FBI to have occurred in each city, and the population of each city. The city population data comes straight from the US Bureau of the Census at the time of each analysis. For instance, the 2022 list population uses 2020 population figures. The 2021 list uses 2019 figures, and so forth.
There were 14 new cities making the list this year. “The newcomer on this list with the highest murder rate is Saginaw, MI. The number of murders in Saginaw more than doubled from the previous year.” Thankfully (and surprisingly) only one Florida city was ranked in the research.
Here’s the top 15 cities with the highest murder rate. Click here to see the full list.
Shandra “Babs” Littleton is a member of the WiLD Squad. She’s originally from Detroit but has spent most of her “grown-up” life in Fort Myers, Florida where she graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University. Babs loves to write about everything from Tampa concerts, to WiLD murders that happened in Florida, and her favorite businesses.