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Missing Texas teen found living on Tijuana streets


UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM

7:19 a.m. February 15, 2006

SAN DIEGO – A Texas teenager missing for three years has been reunited with her family after Mexican authorities found her living on the streets in Tijuana, the FBI has announced.

Chelsea Castorena was 15 when she was thought to have run away from her Austin home in February 2003. Investigators later learned she had been lured across the border into Mexico, said FBI spokeswoman Jan Caldwell.

Acting on anonymous tips from Texas, the FBI's San Diego office contacted Mexican police and immigration officers, who found Castorena, now 18, and took her to the border, where her family was waiting, Caldwell said.

“Without the assistance of these Mexican law enforcement agencies, it is very likely that Castorena would still be missing,â€