FBI offering $20,000 reward for another US citizen kidnapped in Mexico
Anna Giaritelli
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The FBI has announced a $20,000 reward for information that leads U.S. officials to an American citizen who was kidnapped in Mexico more than a month ago.
The federal agency’s Los Angeles office on Thursday asked for the public’s help locating Maria del Carmen, a 63-year-old woman who was taken from her home in Pueblo Nuevo, Colima, a town in southwestern Mexico.
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The Colima Attorney General’s office said she is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico. Colima is one of six states in Mexico that is on the U.S. State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list, the highest classification level.
Lopez was described as Hispanic with blonde hair, brown eyes, and tattooed eyeliner.
The request for help comes weeks after four U.S. citizens were kidnapped by Mexican cartel members immediately after crossing the border from Brownsville, Texas, into Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
While those four Americans taken while in Tamaulipas were found within days, more than 100,000 Mexicans and migrants have been reported missing, as of early 2022, according to the Mexican government.
The March 3 fatal kidnapping involved U.S citizens — Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, LaTavia Washington McGee, and Eric Williams — reportedly traveling to Mexico for a tummy tuck procedure. Pictures from the scene showed a sign pointing toward the international bridge in the background, an indication of just how close the attack was to the border.
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The group’s vehicle crashed and was shot by attackers. The four passengers were pulled from the van, loaded into a pickup truck, and taken away by heavily armed narcos.
Woodard and Brown were killed in Mexico, while McGee and Williams were rescued and brought back to the United States.