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Mexican police rescue American kidnapped in Texas, held in Mexico

12:48 p.m. August 19, 2005

MEXICO CITY – Federal agents have rescued an American woman kidnapped in Texas and held in northern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Friday.

Police arrested the woman's captor, Simon Andres Garcia, during the rescue operation late Thursday in the parking lot of a Church's Chicken in Monclova, officials said in a statement. Garcia's nationality was unclear.


The woman, who was in a car with Garcia at the time of the arrest, was able to get the attention of federal authorities, the statement said. She told them she was kidnapped on Aug. 16 in San Antonio, Texas.