News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Juárez women arrested in extortion plot of Chicago man

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
El Paso Times
Article Launched:03/27/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

A Chicago man who said he had gone to Juárez to settle a drug-trafficking debt was allegedly held captive for more than a month by a Juárez woman and her mother, who were asking for a ransom, FBI officials said.

FBI officers trapped the mother and daughter in a sting operation Sunday outside an El Paso restaurant. The women thought they were picking up the $165,000 ransom from the man's Chicago roommate.

Instead, they were arrested.

Sara Jahzeel Gonzalez, 21, and her mother, Maria Gloria Hernandez-Castillo, 40, were charged with extortion, a felony, and could face up to 20 years in prison.

The Chicago man, whose name was not released, was freed Sunday and is back in the United States, officials said.

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