Sunday, October 3, 2010

Mexican Feds Identified 22 Tourists Kidnapped In Acapulco By Armed Men

Acapulco a tourist attraction

Several women who reported 22 kidnapped tourists are also missing, according to the Guerrero state police.

By H. Nelson Goodson
October 3, 2010

Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico - On Saturday, the Mexican ministry police investigators identified the 22 tourists from Michoacan who were kidnapped in Acapulco City. Two women reported the missing Michoacan men to police last Thursday after a group of armed men suspected to work for a local drug cartel kidnapped them around 5:00 p.m.
Police say, that the men had just arrived in Acapulco in four vehicles and were looking for a hotel to stay for the weekend and wanted to spend sometime at the beach. When they were intercepted by another group of armed men in a Nissan and were taken by force to an undisclosed place. Several women who were with the tourists escaped and reported the kidnappings. They were also reported missing afterwards. Police have not been able to locate the two women or any of the missing men who worked for the same company.
At around 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, police found four vehicles abandoned believed to belong to the missing tourists. Only shoes and clothing were left inside the vehicles, according to the Guerrero state police.
The missing men were identified as Eugenio Calderón Melgarejo, Antonio Ortiz Chávez, Octaviano Ortiz Chávez, Eleuterio Servín Cortés, Efraín Cortés Rangel, Juan Jesús Chávez Ortiz, Héctor Calderón Pintor, Rigoberto Ortiz Chávez, Víctor Manuel Corona Mora, Juan Pablo Calderón Ortiz, Eduardo Ortiz Chávez, Pedro Casimiro Arévalo, Javier, aka, “N,” Juan Serrano Ortiz, Celso Rafael Zambrano Ramos, Fernando Antonio Ortiz, Sergio Zambrano Ramos, Alejandro Zambrano Ramos, Jonathan Sánchez García, Felipe Arriola Godínez, Adrián Pérez Sánchez and Pedro Cancino Arreola.
The two women who reported the kidnappings have not been identified.

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