Mexican State Cops Rescue Kidnapped Migrants in Border City
Tamaulipas Police
Tamaulipas State Police
Cartel Chronicles9 May 202125
A group of migrants from El Salvador called for help after human smugglers that were supposed to cross them to the U.S. decided to hold them for ransom. The smugglers threatened to turn them over to Gulf Cartel enforcers if they did not pay additional smuggling fees.
A group of Tamaulipas state police officers patrolling in a Mexican city on the border with Texas heard calls for help coming from a house in the Rincon de Las Flores neighborhood, information provided by the Tamaulipas government to Breitbart Texas revealed.
Inside the house, they found five men from El Salvador. The migrants claimed the human smuggling group kidnapped them. The smuggling group that was supposed to cross them into the U.S. held them for ransom at that house for 12 days. The migrants claimed that the smuggling group demanded $4,000 dollars before crossing them and an additional $4,000 once they crossed into Texas. The smugglers threatened the group if they did not pay the additional fees. They threatened to turn the migrants over to a group of enforcers from the Gulf Cartel.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/05/09/mexican-state-cops-rescue-kidnapped-migrants-in-border-city/
