MEXICO CITY – Federal agents have rescued an American woman kidnapped in Texas and held in northern Mexico, the Attorney General’s office said Friday.
Police arrested the woman’s captor, Simon Andres Garcia, during the rescue operation late Thursday in the parking lot of a Church’s Chicken in Monclova, officials said in a statement. Garcia’s nationality was unclear.
The woman, who was in a car with Garcia at the time of the arrest, was able to get the attention of federal authorities, the statement said. She told them she was kidnapped on Aug. 16 in San Antonio, Texas.
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. ambassador to Mexico now says he should have used "different phrasing" rather than saying he closed a border town consulate partly to punish the Mexican government for not stopping violence there, according to the State Department.
Spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday that Ambassador Tony Garza's real reason for closing it was to protect Americans working there.
Garza closed the U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, during the first week of August following dozens of drug-related killings, the assassination of the police chief and a city councilman, and a machine-gun, grenade and rocket
His rescue from kidnappers wins praise for Mexico's federal police
Just freed in a daring police raid after two months in the hands of kidnappers, Ruben Omar Romano said Thursday he can't wait to get back to work as the coach of one of Mexico's most popular soccer teams.
"I feel a bit weak, and I still can't believe I'm out of captivity," said a smiling Romano, the Argentine coach of Cruz Azul, at a news conference the morning after his rescue.
"But I'm happy to see my family, and I've got the strength to go on fighting and be back with the
Eight people kidnapped by armed group in Mexico
Eight people, including a five-member family, were kidnapped Friday by an armed group in the city of Nuevo Laredo, in northeastern Mexico where drug-trafficking-related violence has been increasing.
According to the police, the 25-to-30-member-strong armed group moving in a five-pick-up-truck convoy kidnapped the family in a violent way.
The attackers, armed with assault rifles and wearing ski-masks,also abducted three other people named Roberto Guerrero Salas, Alejandro Jaime Trejo and Jose Antonio Vara.
The kidnap took place against the backdrop of
Mexico police score rare win in soccer coach rescue
Berated for endemic corruption and their failure to defeat drug cartels, Mexico's police basked in a rare victory against organized crime on Thursday after the bloodless rescue of a kidnapped soccer coach.
Federal agents sprung Ruben Omar Romano, the Argentine coach of leading team Cruz Azul, from captivity in a house in the crime-ridden neighborhood of Iztapalapa on Wednesday night, without a shot being fired. Seven people were arrested.
Romano, who was being held for a $5 million ransom that was never paid, spent two months blindfolded in the house after being seized
American fugitive detained in Mexico
The nine-month search for a man wanted in the abduction and slaying of a Dallas restaurateur ended with an arrest in a Mexican resort town Friday.
Mexican federal authorities captured Edgar "Richie" Acevedo in Cabo San Lucas and were preparing to take the 25-year-old former waiter at an Oscar Sanchez family restaurant to Mexico City, Dallas police said.
FBI Special Agent Lori Bailey confirmed the arrest, but would not discuss details.
Sanchez was kidnapped the morning of Jan. 18 in what police believe was a staged car wreck in Dallas. His body was found in a field in
Police set to bring back teacher who fled to Mexico with 14-year-old boy
Police from a small Kentucky town are on a 1,500-mile trek to Laredo, Texas, to bring back a former middle-school teacher and her 14-year-old suspected lover, authorities said.
Mexican authorities found Angela Comer, 26, and the eighth-grade student on Tuesday night in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, after the boy's grandmother reported him missing on Saturday.
Authorities in Tompkinsville, Ky., are investigating the circumstances of the relationship, but Police Chief Dale Forward said the two are rumored to have been sexually involved.
Comer's 3-year-old son, who was with her at the Mexican hotel,
Mexico charges seven cops with kidnapping
Mexican prosecutors announced Thursday they have filed kidnapping and organize crime charges against seven police officers accused of protecting hit men working for the feared Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug cartel.
The men served in the police department in Ensenada, a tourist town 75 kilometers (45 miles) south of the California border, and they allegedly kidnapped people involved in the drug trade and held them for ransom, the Attorney General's Office said in a press statement.
They also protected members of the "Black Commando," a group of hit men working for the Arellano Felix cartel, authorities said.
They are
One female police officer has been killed and another badly hurt in a drive-by shooting in the northern Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo.
The killing takes the number of police murdered in the town this year to 15, with about 110 killed during 2005.
The assassination took place close to the border with the US state of Texas.
Violence in Nuevo Laredo is the result of a vicious turf war being fought between two powerful drug cartels for control of the lucrative drug trade.
This brazen assassination, in the middle of the afternoon, took place in central Nuevo Laredo, just
Mexico Mining Rescue Efforts Going SlowlyMexico Mining Rescue Efforts Going Slowly
Rescue workers searching for 65 coal miners trapped deep beneath the desert scrub of northern Mexico made excruciatingly slow progress Tuesday, working with picks and shovels as anguished relatives demanded information.
More than two days after a gas explosion filled tunnels with fallen rock, wood and metal, rescuers have found no sign of the workers either dead or alive in the Pasta de Conchos mine, about 85 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Crews wearing gas masks and oxygen tanks got through one wall of debris, only to encounter
Police chase naked driver into Mexico
A naked man driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup led police on a chase to the international border yesterday before leaving the truck and running into Mexico, where he was caught.
The man was first observed parked in an alleyand exposing himself about 12:15 p.m. near Texas Street in North Park. Responding officers tried to stop the truck, but the driver sped off, San Diego police Sgt. Jim Schorr said.
During a police chase, the driver avoided three spike strips set down on roadways by officers at various locations.
On Interstate 5 at Interstate 905, the man
