Thread: US Citizen, Kidnapped by Drug Gang, Found Dead in Juarez

US Citizen, Kidnapped by Drug Gang, Found Dead in Ciudad Juarez

Updated: Saturday, 11 Sep 2010, 11:09 AM MDT
Published : Saturday, 11 Sep 2010, 11:09 AM MDT

NEWSCORE - A U.S. citizen who was kidnapped in late August by a suspected drug gang in the violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez was found dead, AFP reported Saturday.

The discovery of Saul de la Rosa, his body riddled with bullet wounds and showing apparent signs of torture, made him the fifth U.S. citizen murdered so far this year in northern border city, and brings the total to 30 since January 2009, according to an AFP count based on official data.

De la Rosa, a 27-year-old Mexican-American who lived in El Paso, Texas, was visiting family members in Mexico August 28 when he was kidnapped. His abductors also killed two of his Mexican relatives, men aged 41 and 21 years, state officials said.

His body was found alongside two other men Sept. 2, identified Thursday and the deputy attorney's office for Chihuahua state told reporters late Friday.

Ciudad Juarez is considered the most violent city in Mexico, with more than 2,150 killings so far this year, attributed mostly to a turf war between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels for control of lucrative drug trafficking routes into the United States.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpps/news/u ... jd_9594016

I'm sure congress, the president and the U.S. ambassador will will cut loose on Mexico for this atrocity any day now.