Posted on 08/24/2010 6:25:07 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
SAN JUAN —Police reunited a teenage woman with her family Monday afternoon, nearly 19 hours after she was abducted, blindfolded and dumped in a Reynosa field.
The 18-year-old woman, whose name was not disclosed by police, was walking to a friend’s house about 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
A black van pulled up alongside her and three men hopped out, San Juan Police Chief Juan Gonzalez said. They snatched the girl, blindfolded her and took her to Reynosa.
The kidnappers began calling the woman’s family demanding ransom money.
“The kidnappers somehow missed it that she had a cell phone,” Gonzalez said. “We were able to keep communicating with her.”
The chief said police investigators, FBI agents and Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies negotiated with the kidnappers. Once the abductors realized their victim’s family would not be able to pay a ransom, they dumped her in a random field.
She had her cell phone, but police still had no idea where she was.
Customs officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents were put on alert to look for the teen and a helicopter surveyed Mexico from this side of the border, but found nothing.
U.S. authorities did not contact their Mexican counterparts because they did not know whether they were corrupted or connected to the girl’s captors, Gonzalez said.
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AMEN to that! Shoot ‘em dead.
The mistaken identity theory makes sense.
I forgot the “/sarc” tag...Muh bad...
You are right though...I recind the order of post #2...
I guess I feel like a putz...Some will agree with that too...;-)
Gracias...
Generally these are not totally random kidnappings. Almost invariably, when the truth comes out, the kidnappee was connected to someone in the Mexican drug trade. A brother, a father, husband, etc. The real story is in who was she related to and what is their role in the cartels? And not contacting the Mexican officials may well have saved her life. They are that corrupt and on this side we have no way to know. Erring on the side of caution is probably the right approach.
Down towards the Brownsville area...Apparently...I haven’t really looked but it should pop up on Google Earth...
Sure, you are correct...
The problem I have is that our citizens who live in these areas are not being given the protection they need, and yet the government is more inclined to wash their hands of the damn issue and “caution” those very same citizens to restrict their own movements and lifestyles because of the danger from foriegn criminal activities...
Not only do I have a problem with this tactic, there needs to be some heads rolling in the dirt because of the ineptness of the Federal government...And if they cannot handle the problem at hand, then the states have every right and duty to take back those powers delegated to the Federal government and implement measures to reduce or completely eliminate the problem in their states AS THEY SEE FIT!!!
The Texas State Legislature is going to be busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest this next January...I just hope we make it till then...And if we do not keep a conservative majority in the state house, we can forget about any of this being addressed, much less resolved...
Thanks Stevie.
She is very lucky to be alive.
Things are out of hand.
Not to bump a year old thread, but I wanted to see if any more has been said or done about this and whether anybody ever came forward to explain why a woman could be kidnapped from Texas and taken to Mexico without being discovered. The media and government has been very silent about this. Both the media and government (state and fed) gave a lot of attention to the woman whose husband was killed after they went to the wrong part of Falcon Lake, but this kidnapping dropped off the radar quickly.
I still stand by my post #28...Thats all I have at this time, other then the state legistlature has made some headway into taking more charge in our own operations on the border to tighten up some points along that border to make it unpalletable for the rug cartels to run ops on our side as much...
It might be ratcheting up a little more now that some are realizing this is a war and not just some political bull-sh!t football to be punted when times get rough...
The more we keep the pressure on them and demand action the more we’ll see...I’d like to think I was not the only one pressing the right buttons to get the state government to grow a pair and tell the Feds and the Mexican governments to go pound sand if they don’t like what we are doing...
All it takes is some political courage...We have the manpower, money and hardware to implement a stepped up presense on the border now...
But someone is too busy running for El Presidente to bother much with this other than to talk tough to the folks on the east coast these days...
Don’t get me wrong, he (Perry) has done some good on the border, but it could be much more than it is now...
Just my opinion...
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