But nobody alerted Mexico of Amber Alert
For the first time in Arizona Amber Alert’s three-year history, it’s likely that an accused abductor and his two children have slipped across the border and disappeared into Mexico.
And while U.S. authorities have scoured the state for Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala and the children, Mexican law enforcement and immigration officials knew little of the manhunt until they were contacted by Maricopa County sheriff’s investigators three days later.
The case adds to the growing concern that Mexican law enforcement is not included in the Amber Alert network. They are only notified of potential border-crossing kidnappers if and when U.S. investigators decide to give them a call, which could be hours or days later.
Cervantes and his children, 3-year-old Jennifer and 18-month-old Bryan, have been missing since late Sunday when the children’s grandparents and uncle were found shot to death in a Queen Creek home. Cervantes, 34, is an investigative lead in the triple slaying.
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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
EZLN Out of Mexico State Conflict
Sub commander Marcos, leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), separated Tuesday that insurgent group from the violent social conflict that broke out in Mexico State last week.
Marcos considered that the actions that followed an attempt to evict walking flower sellers are the result of the peoples rage due to the autorities ineptitude to resolve the problem through the dialogue.
He demanded the immediate release of over 200 people detained on Wednesday and Thursday in Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco, adding that among them there are people seriously wounded and various women raped.
Faced
Mexico snares Boston bomb hoax suspect
A man accused of making a phony threat of a nuclear attack on Boston earlier this year has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said Monday.
The scare in January prompted authorities to alert the public and to increase security at the airport and on the subway. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney skipped President Bush's inauguration to return to Boston. Within days, the FBI called it a false alarm.
Mexican authorities arrested Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinonez, 34, early Saturday in Mexicali, a border city about 120 miles east of San Diego, the FBI said.
A three-count indictment charges Beltran with
Money transfers to Mexico targeted by scam artists
The Texas Attorney General’s office issued a warning for anyone sending money to Mexico with a wire transfer
Anyone thinking of sending money to their family in Mexico should be very careful. The Texas Attorney General’s office issued an alert to make sure people don’t become the target of scams. They say you should choose a money transfer company carefully.
These are red flags that the money transfer company may be scamming you:
The exchange rate is different from the one advertised or printed on the receipt.
The person receiving the money is forced to pay an
Fireworks explosion kills 7 and injures 4 in Mexico
Fireworks stored at a building that also illicitly sold gasoline exploded Saturday, killing seven people and injuring four, a local official said.
The building also housed video game machines, and five of the dead were children who frequented the video parlor on weekends, local authorities said.
The blast occurred in the tiny hamlet of Tlacotepec, high in the mountains of southern Guerrero state, about 75 miles north of Acapulco, Ayala Mata said.
Blood vessel problem sends Chirac to hospital
Paris -- French President Jacques Chirac has been hospitalized after suffering a blood vessel problem in
Hurricane Otis heads towards Mexico
Hurricane Otis gathered force as it moved toward Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
At 1200 GMT, the center of the hurricane was located about 135 miles (215 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja peninsula about 205 miles (330 km) south of Cabo San Lazaro, according to the US National Hurricane Center in Florida.
Otis was heading slowly northeast with winds of up to 105 miles (165 km) per hour and some stronger gusts, ranking it as a category two hurricane out of a possible five on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the center said Saturday.
Hurricane Katrina,
Media group urges Mexico to help find missing writer
The international press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday urged Mexican authorities to find a radio and newspaper reporter missing in the northern border state of Coahuila.
Rafael Ortiz, 32, was last seen before dawn Saturday after leaving the offices of the daily Zocalo newspaper in the city of Monclova, about 135 miles from Eagle Pass.
We urge the Coahuila state authorities to do everything possible to find Ortiz quickly and to alert the new prosecutors office that specializes in attacks on the press, the New York-based media watchdog group said in a
Mexico Confirms Fujimori Passed Through Its Territory
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez has corroborated that ex President of Peru Alberto Fujimori, who said he never left the plane, passed through Mexico on his way to Chile.
He went legally through Mexico although INTERPOL had issued a red alert (warrant) but did not submit an official extradition request.
Derbez said the ex head of state "apparently was present for some 45 minutes during refueling of the plane that flew in from Tokyo."
He said that local authorities were aware of this, but lacked the power to arrest him in the absence of an order
By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
A British citizen born in Lebanon was released Wednesday by Mexican authorities, less than 24 hours after his arrest in the state of Baja California Sur on suspicion of having ties to terrorists linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Amer Haykel "does not represent any threat to national security and is not wanted by authorities of any country," read a statement released late Wednesday by Mexico's Interior Ministry.
"He's not a terrorist. He was just a tourist," said Mariana Morales, a spokeswoman at the British Embassy in Mexico City.
Haykel was arrested Tuesday at a
