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 going to White Castle and never returned. Her packed bags and her passport were left in the hotel room.
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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,
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 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
Woman caught smuggling $119,912 to Mexico
A 25-year-old Donna woman was caught trying to cross into Mexico with nearly $120,000 under her clothes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Thursday.
Aurora Garcia was arrested on federal charges of bulk cash smuggling Wednesday after agents at the Hidalgo international bridge pulled aside the taxi she was in and discovered the cash.
Garcia declared $1,000 but gave a negative declaration for currency in excess of $10,000, weapons, or ammunition.
CBP officers said they noticed discrepancies in Garcia's clothing, which turned out to be bundles of money totaling $119,912.
It is a federal offense not to declare
College student still missing in Mexico
A college student was still missing Tuesday after a weekend night out with friends in Matamoros, Mexico. Friends of Juan Carlos "Charlie" Ramos, 24, said they were about to cross back to the United States on Saturday, when Ramos left them after a fight about who would pay the border-crossing fee. Ramos attends the University of Texas at Brownsville-Texas Southmost College. Police said he isn't in Matamoros hospitals or jails.
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Minneapolis sex criminal deported to Mexico
A convicted kidnapper who sexually attacked a woman in Minneapolis five years ago was deported to Mexico this past week, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Bloomington said today.
Domingo Penaloza-Cabrera, 36, was turned over to Mexican authorities on Wednesday, the office said.
Penaloza-Cabrera was convicted in a Hennepin County District Court in 2001 of kidnapping and attempted first-degree sexual conduct for attacking a woman he met in a Minneapolis nightclub. Instead of taking the woman home, he drover her to the Mississippi River, sexually assaulted her, then beat her with a metal pipe and
Finding missing U.S. kids in Mexico a difficult task
If the two small children abducted from a home near Queen Creek on Sunday were taken to Mexico, as family members believe, they won't be easy to find.
Mexico is the No. 1 foreign destination for children taken by a family member from the United States, according to the U.S. State Department. Insufficient cooperation between the two countries, a lack of resources in Mexico, the slow Mexican court system and a cultural fear of officials hamper their recovery.
"Some cases can take days, but some can take years," said Julia Alanen, director of the
Finding missing U.S. kids in Mexico a difficult task
If the two small children abducted from a home near Queen Creek on Sunday were taken to Mexico, as family members believe, they won't be easy to find.
Mexico is the No. 1 foreign destination for children taken by a family member from the United States, according to the U.S. State Department. Insufficient cooperation between the two countries, a lack of resources in Mexico, the slow Mexican court system and a cultural fear of officials hamper their recovery.
"Some cases can take days, but some can take years," said Julia Alanen, director 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
