Business diversification?
Something to make up for the lost revenue of human smuggling?
But they do this all the time. There’s been a dozen or so cases in the last 5 years.
It’s usually some drug-adjacent person, but just normal rich people get kidnapped with some frequency.
I don’t trust the headline gossip TV show TMZ. We don’t know if they generated the original ‘kidnap demand’????
That is not a cartel member, and that was my point. It may be adjacent to cartels, but cartels are not likely the actual perps.