Mexico Kidnappings

The US embassy in Mexico said on Friday that Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the infamous cartel kingpin "El Chapo," had surrendered voluntarily while his father's former partner Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada seemed to have been taken against his will.

The son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman did not kidnap drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the Guzman family's lawyer said on Wednesday, following reports Guzman's son had betrayed Zambada to the United States.

A suspect in the kidnapping, torture and apparent murder of five young men in Mexico has been arrested, prosecutors said Monday, in a case that prompted a rare level of outrage in a country where abductions and killings are all too common.

A woman in the United States who shot her Uber driver after mistakenly believing she was being kidnapped is facing murder charges.

The drug cartel also handed over five purported henchmen as a would-be apology for the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico, reports said.

Mexican authorities said they had arrested a suspect who was guarding the abductees at a house in Matamoros.

Mexico's armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have helped locate them, according to a report released Monday by special investigation.

Nine people were killed in a bloody confrontation on Friday in western Mexico between a criminal gang and agents investigating a suspected kidnapping, officials said.

One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.

For months after he learned in 2015 that his 17-year-old daughter was kidnapped outside a club and raped by some former classmates, Javier Fernandez said, he refused to go to the police. That's not to say he didn't want justice. It's all the single father wanted for Daphne, his youngest child. "I wanted to kill them all," he told a New Yorker write...

Jeanette Vizguerra fled to the United States from Mexico with her family after her husband was kidnapped three times, once with a gun to his head.

A woman pleaded with her gang-leader son on Wednesday to free a man he abducted, after villagers in Mexico seized her in reprisal, local media reported.

Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar's niece was found dead in Mexico after she was abducted and held for ransom for several days

Mexican federal prosecutors Thursday took over investigations into the gunpoint kidnapping of a son of notorious drugs boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, officials said.

Eight people from the same family, including two teenagers, were kidnapped by masked gunmen and decapitated in northern Mexico, authorities said on Wednesday.

The US embassy in Mexico said on Friday that Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the infamous cartel kingpin "El Chapo," had surrendered voluntarily while his father's former partner Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada seemed to have been taken against his will.

The son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman did not kidnap drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the Guzman family's lawyer said on Wednesday, following reports Guzman's son had betrayed Zambada to the United States.

A suspect in the kidnapping, torture and apparent murder of five young men in Mexico has been arrested, prosecutors said Monday, in a case that prompted a rare level of outrage in a country where abductions and killings are all too common.

A woman in the United States who shot her Uber driver after mistakenly believing she was being kidnapped is facing murder charges.

The drug cartel also handed over five purported henchmen as a would-be apology for the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico, reports said.

Mexican authorities said they had arrested a suspect who was guarding the abductees at a house in Matamoros.

Mexico's armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have helped locate them, according to a report released Monday by special investigation.

Nine people were killed in a bloody confrontation on Friday in western Mexico between a criminal gang and agents investigating a suspected kidnapping, officials said.

One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.

For months after he learned in 2015 that his 17-year-old daughter was kidnapped outside a club and raped by some former classmates, Javier Fernandez said, he refused to go to the police. That's not to say he didn't want justice. It's all the single father wanted for Daphne, his youngest child. "I wanted to kill them all," he told a New Yorker write...

Jeanette Vizguerra fled to the United States from Mexico with her family after her husband was kidnapped three times, once with a gun to his head.

A woman pleaded with her gang-leader son on Wednesday to free a man he abducted, after villagers in Mexico seized her in reprisal, local media reported.

Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar's niece was found dead in Mexico after she was abducted and held for ransom for several days

Mexican federal prosecutors Thursday took over investigations into the gunpoint kidnapping of a son of notorious drugs boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, officials said.

Eight people from the same family, including two teenagers, were kidnapped by masked gunmen and decapitated in northern Mexico, authorities said on Wednesday.