Oasia Barnes has been convicted of 18 felony counts, including rape and kidnapping, tied to an August 2024 incident involving ...

Jurors found 69-year-old Oasia Barnes guilty of 17 counts of rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, intimidation, sexual battery, ...

A Gary man is on trial this week on allegations he held a juvenile and her dad at gunpoint, robbed them, forced them and ...

Jurors found a Gary man guilty Thursday in a tourist kidnapping from the Michael Jackson Childhood Home last summer. Oasia Barnes, 69, of Gary, was accused of forcing a New York father and his ...

“There’s no one else,” she said. “It’s up to me.” Oasia Barnes, 69, of Gary, is on trial this week. He is accused of kidnapping the two from the Michael Jackson home, taking them near ...

Oasia Barnes is on trial this week after being accused of kidnapping the 17 year-old girl and her father from the home in Gary, Indiana, before beating her her. Prosecutors say the 69-year-old ...

Oasia Barnes, 69, of Gary, was charged in August with several felonies, including Level 1 felony rape, for kidnapping and assaulting a teen visiting Michael Jackson’s childhood home.

That day, Deputy Prosecutors Tara Villarreal and Chris Bruno allege Oasia Barnes used it to target an unsuspecting local man and his 16-year-old daughter. Is anyone in danger, the dispatcher asks.