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.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Officials say kidnapping suspects not masterminds

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 03/28/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

The mother and daughter arrested Sunday in El Paso in an alleged Juárez kidnapping-for-ransom scheme were not the masterminds behind the abduction, court documents and friends said.

Sara Jahzeel Gonzalez, 21, and her mother, Maria Gloria Hernandez Castillo, 40, were arrested on extortion charges when they picked up ransom money raised by the family of Charles Waters, a 48-year-old Chicago man who had been held captive in Juárez for more than a month.

Waters, who was released unharmed, told FBI officials that the $165,000 ransom was to pay a drug debt.

Court documents filed Tuesday show that Gonzalez and Hernandez Castillo were not involved in the kidnapping.

Hernandez Castillo told the FBI that her aunt, Julieta Castillo of Juárez, told her "she knew Hernandez Castillo was having a financial hardship and had a way for her to earn some money," according to the documents in the case.

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