Body of young girl found in suitcase in Mexico
Police discovered the body of a young girl on Thursday that had been stuck inside a suitcase and left on a busy sidewalk in Mexico City.
Investigators were working to identify the girl, thought to be between 5 and 6 years old, and establish the cause of death, a police spokeswoman said.
She was found inside the suitcase, dressed but missing her shoes and wrapped in a jacket, by a police patrol in the district of Tacuba on Thursday morning.
Police discovered the body of a young girl on Thursday that had been stuck inside a suitcase and left on a busy sidewalk in Mexico City.
Investigators were working to identify the girl, thought to be between 5 and 6 years old, and establish the cause of death, a police spokeswoman said.
She was found inside the suitcase, dressed but missing her shoes and wrapped in a jacket, by a police patrol in the district of Tacuba on Thursday morning.
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Missing Fernley girl found in Mexico
An 8-year-old Fernley girl who authorities say was abducted July 22 by a convicted sex offender and taken to Mexico is safe in Ensenada, Mexico, authorities from Lyon County confirmed Friday night.
Mexican officials are working with U.S. authorities to return Lydia Bethany-Rose Rupp to her mother in Fernley, said Capt. Jeff Page of the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office. The girl’s alleged abductor — 47-year-old Fernando Aguerro — is in the custody of Mexican authorities and is awaiting extradition proceedings, Page said.
Lydia and Aguerro were found at a shelter for low-income people, Page said.
Body Is That of Model; Lover May Be in Mexico
A decomposing body found at a storage facility was identified Friday as that of a 21-year-old aspiring model whose millionaire lover has vanished.
Iryna Singerman's body and purse were found in the bed of a pickup owned by her lover, Brian Joseph Cullen, 59, authorities said. Police believe Cullen has gone to Mexico.
A cause of death had not been determined, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. David Smith said.
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Ariz. man drowns after trying to save niece in Mexico
A Tucson man has lost his life in Mexico after trying to save the life of his 5-year-old niece.
It occurred in the Gulf of California resort city of Puerto Penasco - commonly known as Rocky Point in Arizona.
Police said the little girl was swimming when she was caught by high waves that pulled her out to sea.
Police said her 21-year-old uncle, Steven Rodriguez, jumped into the ocean to save the girl. They said a larger wave tore the girl away from Rodriguez. The girl was carried safely back to shore,
Missing woman apparently found in Mexico
A young woman from Saudi Arabia who disappeared in St. Paul last week has apparently been found in Tijuana, Mexico. Family members said they had no details of her condition, or how she got to Mexico.
St. Paul police were notified by Mexican officials that they believed Noora Salim, 21, had been found there. They requested that her passport be sent to Mexico.
Salim had come to St. Paul with her parents to settle a younger sister at Macalester College. They were to return to Saudi Arabia Sept. 6, but Salim left a note saying she was
Man Who Ran To Mexico With L.I. Teen Pleads Guilty To Sex Charges
A convicted sex offender who ran off to Mexico with a 16-year-old Long Island girl has pleaded guilty to third-degree rape and sodomy.
Lester Joy, 25, of Morristown, N.J., said he met the girl on the Internet and went to her house in Hampton Bays on Jan. 31, 2005.
He said he and the girl climbed out of the window and fled to Mexico.
The case was first reported as a missing teenager case, but the girl called home from Mexico two weeks later and said she wanted to come
UT student accused in slaying captured near Mexico border
A University of Texas student accused of fatally shooting and stabbing a woman and partially dismembering her body was arrested Tuesday near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Colton Pitonyak, 22, remained jailed in Eagle Pass. He will be sent back to Austin to face a murder charge in the death of 21-year-old Jennifer Cave, of Corpus Christi, said Austin Police Chief Stan Knee. Investigators have not said what motivated the slaying.
U.S. marshals arrested Pitonyak in Eagle Pass after Mexican authorities deported him on an immigration violation, Knee said. Pitonyak apparently fled to Piedras Negras,
Children learn of Mexico through coloring books
Thirteen children took a trip along with a girl named Mary to Mexico during a special presentation Saturday at the Rogers Public Library.
Then, they got to illustrate the story themselves with their very own bilingual coloring book.
While learning what a birthday celebration entails in our neighbor to the south, the children also learned that 10 U.S. dollars equals 100 pesos.
Currency exchange rates aren’t the usual fodder for coloring books or topics of conversation for young children, but the group who presented it was just as interested in the economics of the
Irish girl missing in Gulf of Mexico
A search operation is continuing off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula for an Irish teenager who fell overboard from a cruise ship in the early hours of yesterday morning.
15-year-old Lynsey O'Brien from Dublin, a pupil of the Loreto High School, Beaufort, in Dublin, was on a family holiday in the Caribbean aboard the vessel Costa Magica.
It is understood Ms O'Brien was on the top deck of the ship with her 11-year-old sister, Imelda, when she fell overboard. Her sister then alerted her parents and a search was initiated.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that
Irish girl missing in Gulf of Mexico
A search operation is continuing off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula for an Irish teenager who fell overboard from a cruise ship in the early hours of yesterday morning.
15-year-old Lynsey O'Brien from Dublin, a pupil of the Loreto High School, Beaufort, in Dublin, was on a family holiday in the Caribbean aboard the vessel Costa Magica.
It is understood Ms O'Brien was on the top deck of the ship with her 11-year-old sister, Imelda, when she fell overboard. Her sister then alerted her parents and a search was initiated.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed
'Priceless' artifacts are returned to Mexico
Three caches of pre-Columbian artifacts seized at the U.S.-Mexico border were returned to Mexico last week, including objects believed washed away by rain from the El Tajin ruins near Veracruz.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials returned the 140 stone figurines and other objects to Deputy Mexican Consul Ernesto Herrera at a news conference Thursday at the Hidalgo International Bridge.
The items were seized in 2004 during two inspections at the Rio Grande City port of entry and one inspection at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge.
During one inspection, CBP agents found 104 artifacts in a suitcase. The
