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American Hostage Rescued in Mexico

Officials say kidnappers were demanding a large sum of money for his return

POSTED: 06:33 AM CDT Sep 21, 2015 UPDATED: 06:34 AM CDT Sep 21, 2015



REYNOSA -An American citizen kidnapped in Texas and taken into Mexico was rescued after a joint investigation.

Officials say kidnappers were demanding a large sum of money for his return.

Mexican federal police, cooperating with U.S. officials located the man in a Reynosa stash house. Officials say the victim was kidnapped on August 27.

One suspect, identified as Jose Guadalupe Hernandez, was taken into custody.

http://www.krgv.com/news/local-news/...exico/35389194

Is this the first we have heard of this hostage? First ive heard of an American being taken hostage back to Mexico!

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Is this the first we have heard of this hostage? First ive heard of an American being taken hostage back to Mexico!

W

The hostage, or someone in their family probably owes a cartel money for some drugs and didn't pay so they took them or a family member hostage until someone pay the money.

I can't find any other coverage of this.
They probably won't release the name of the hostage, for his safety.

Translated from Mexican official.

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FEDERAL POLICE RESCUE A ALIEN ABDUCTION VICTIM AND HOLDING HIS ALLEGED IN TAMAULIPAS plagiarist


Press Release No. 566
Mexico City, to 20 of September of 2015

As part of the work of permanent exchange of information and international cooperation, the request to the investigation of a kidnapping case made ​​against an American citizen, members of the Police managed to release a man who was kidnapped since last August 27 in Texas. The victim, by demanding a large sum of money as ransom, he was deprived of his liberty in a safe house located in Arboledas colony in the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, where staff of the Federal Police deployed an operation, achieving the arrest of Jose Guadalupe Hernandez Cisneros, without firing a shot.

At home the victim was rescued unharmed and who immediately received attention and support necessary to the emotional crisis that arose. After confirming that he was unharmed he was accompanied to the Public Ministry to lodge a complaint being notified of the fact the consular authorities of their country. As long as the detainee was brought before the Public Prosecutor attached to the Specialized Attorney for Investigation of Organized Crime of the PGR.

Last modification: 20 of September of 2015, 17:09 hrs.
by Directorate General of Social Communication

http://www.cns.gob.mx/portalWebApp/a..._1_1id=1392337

Mr Gheen
why don't obama help get them home he is our President trump& one of the lady from fox new's did get one of our guy's home it obama job to help them get home
it so,sad obama don't care about our country at all or our guy's or lady 's

A kidnapping ends safely in Mexico

By Aaron Nelsen
September 21, 2015 Updated: September 21, 2015 6:04pm

A man abducted in Hidalgo County last month was found alive in Mexico, authorities there said.

Mexican federal police reported that the Texas resident was kidnapped Aug. 27 and held captive in a stash house in Reynosa for a substantial ransom.

Mexican federal police, working with U.S. officials, rescued the man last week and took one suspect into custody without firing a shot, authorities said.

Kidnappings throughout Mexico have been on the rise over the past several years, especially in the border state of Tamaulipas. Only a small portion are reported, according to the U.S. State Department.

More than 130 American citizens were reported kidnapped in Mexico between January 2014 and November of that year, the State Department said.

Along the U.S.-Mexico border it isn’t uncommon for kidnappings to be carried out in the U.S. and for victims to be taken back to Mexico, according to one security expert.

“By far, most victims are somehow tied to criminal activities across the border,” said Tristan Reed, a Mexico security analyst for Stratfor, an Austin-based intelligence firm.

They would rather pay off the kidnappers than notify the authorities.
The Zetas and the Gulf Cartel have fractured in recent years amid the capture of top drug capos and internal power struggles, which has likely drawn splintered criminal groups to kidnapping as a source of revenue, Reed said.

http://www.expressnews.com/news/loca...co-6520087.php

http://www.alipac.us/f12/gulf-cartel...border-323528/

Kidnapping of US Citizen in Texas Seen as New Front for Mexican Cartels



Posted Tuesday, September 22nd 2015 @ 6am

The kidnapping of a U.S. Citizen in Texas by a Mexican drug cartel in August is an example of the dangerous new crimes being perpetrated by the cartels who find their drug running profits drying up, experts tell News Radio 1200 WOAI's Michael Board.

The man was rescued by a joint U.S. Mexican operation after he was held captive in what officials called a 'stash house' in the Mexican border city of Reynosa while demands for 'significant ransom' were made to his relatives.

"We have actually seen an increase in exortion and kidnapping," Tony Payan, an expert on Mexican politics at the Baker Institute at Rice University told News Radio 1200 WOAI.

The identity of the victim was not released, but Payan and other experts say victims of this scary trend are generally not 'random' Americans, but are those who already have ties to the cartels.

Payan says the Mexican government is complicit by denying that the problem is growing.

"They are sending the message to the criminals that they have somehow 'let up' in the struggle against criminal groups," Payan said.

Payan says the once monolithic cartels from the Zetas to the Sinaloa to the Gulf to the Knights Templar have slowly seen their profits from drug running erode. A number of factors are credited, from tighter border security to legalization of marijuana in many parts of the U.S. Texas is actually licensing marijuana growers to provide THC for the newly legalized use of cannaboid oil for treatment of seizure patients, and all of this cuts into cartel profits.

He says the cartels are also being torn apart by high profile arrests, like that of the master criminal known as El Chapo.

"Many of these groups have diversified," Payan said. "Kidnapping is one of the major activities of many of these groups in northeastern Mexico, which includes Texas."

Kidnapping for ransom is a common crime across much of Mexico and Central America. But officials say kidnappings in the U.S. will be a tougher challegenge for the cartels, who don't understand that U.S. law enforcement is more professional, and investigators and judges can't be bought off like they frequently are south of the border.

Read more: http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-lo...#ixzz3mUHIelCX

9/24/15

http://www.alipac.us/f12/relatives-f...mexico-323664/