Posted on 08/30/2007 10:26:18 AM PDT by LNewman
SAN DIEGO – A Mexican businessman testified Tuesday that his Mexican captors boasted they were unafraid to kidnap people in the United States as they tortured him in a suburban home.
Eduardo Gonzalez Tostado, 32, haltingly recounted his captors' threats and demands for money in the first hours after a woman lured him to a home in a quiet cul-de-sac the night of June 8 with the promise of sex. Instead, he was jumped, beaten and shot with a stun gun by at least four men who blindfolded and bound him.
The leader of the group, a Mexican man, said they would free him for $2 million and warned him to take the demand seriously.
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The defendants – four Mexican citizens, one Cuban and one U.S. citizen – could face life in prison without the possibility parole if convicted. The men are believed to be members of a kidnapping and murder organization called Los Palillos – or, The Toothpicks – that is suspected of involvement in several unsolved murders in San Diego County over the past several years. Prosecutors say the group may have targeted members of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug cartel.
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Gonzalez said the day after his abduction, he called home and told his pregnant wife to sell their house and raise money from friends. At the time, his wife refused to believe he was being held hostage and hung up the phone after accusing him of partying all night.
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Gonzalez was rescued by the FBI SWAT team after eight days in captivity. His wife and cousin gave the abductors $193,900 using a briefcase with an FBI homing device hidden inside, according to investigators. An FBI airplane tracked the car back to the house where Gonzalez was being held.
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Hey, c’mon now, they just want to do the kidnapping, torturing, and murdering that most Americans won’t do.
Yep, the old "promise of sex" scam!
this is what we have to look forward to.
NOTE TO MEXICAN KIDNAPPERS: DISCARD THE BRIEFCASE CARRY THE CASH IN A PAPER BAG.
ping
No kidding.
Later in the article, it says he called home and asked his “pregnant wife” to sell the house and raise money.
I get the point of the article, and trust me, living in a border town, I hear of the stuff they do to victims in Mexico, but in this particular case, I’m kinda not overly upset about the crime.
Maybe if the guy had attempted to keep it zipped, he wouldn’t have had to worry about such a crappy outcome of an interlude. Sorry, can’t seem to scrounge up any pity for him. I do, however, pity his poor pregnant wife.
“Eduardo Gonzalez Tostado, 32, haltingly recounted his captors’ threats and demands for money in the first hours after a woman lured him to a home in a quiet cul-de-sac the night of June 8 with the promise of sex.”
(snip)
“Gonzalez said the day after his abduction, he called home and told his pregnant wife to sell their house and raise money from friends. At the time, his wife refused to believe he was being held hostage and hung up the phone after accusing him of partying all night.”
She wasn’t too far from wrong in her original assessment.
In that case, bring it on. I’ll be glad to show them what lead poisoning is like.
Ping.
I live in TX, and had cause to be in McAllen TX right on the border a while back. I had my Glock with me at all times with 27 rounds of hollow points. I have a CHL.
"Honey, I've been kidnapped and they're threatening to kill me...."
"Yeah, right you dirt bag.
Well, he was going after free nookie with a pregnant wife at home, good thing she didn't know that at the time!
Fun stuff—coming to cities and towns all across the US.
Open borders and cheap labor are all fun and games until someone gets raped, murdered, beaten, robbed, molested, kidnapped, etc.
Mexico = oil = strategic importance
Iraq = criminal systemic corruption / leader of a failed state/ country
Mexico = criminal systemic corruption / leader of failed state / country
Iraq = responsible for US deaths gulf war I and “II”
Mexico = more deaths to US citizens caused by illegal Mexican nationals on US soil than can be attributed to US military / civilian fatalities during Iraq Gulf War I and “II” in the mid-east.
Iraq = not known to export terrorism directly to US soil.
Mexico = Directly supports terrorism (Rape, Murder, Armed Assault, robbery) to US soil. State sanctioned.
Iraq = unstable government
Mexico = unstable government
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When do we invade Mexico, secure the oil fields, kick out it’s corrupt terrorist supporting government and spread a little democracy?
This the inevitable blending of cultures. After apple pie on the Fourth of July, you kidnap and ransome your neighbor.
Another one of those “family values” kind of Mexicans I see.
These must be more of those family values that don't stop at the Rio Grande that Bush is always hawking.
Si, she pegged that chingato cabron correctly!
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