Mexican kidnappers crossed US border to gather ransom, left hostage tied up in trench: medical doctors

A Los Angeles guy was once allegedly abducted at gunpoint all through a discuss with to Mexico, and the suspected captors despatched his circle of relatives graphic movies and a threatening picture.

Their beloved one was once blindfolded and tied up in an oblong concrete trench with guns pointed at his head, consistent with court docket paperwork reviewed by means of Fox Information Virtual. 

The suspects – a Mexican circle of relatives – allegedly pistol whipped their sufferer and fired a shot close to his head. 

The violent disagreement was once recorded and despatched to his circle of relatives in L.A. with ransom calls for of $70,000, federal prosecutors stated. 

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The sufferer, who was once known as “R.V.” in court docket filings, was once in Mexico’s common browsing vacation spot of Playas de Rosarito in Baja California, the place the suspects allegedly kidnapped him in 2022. Prosecutors lately shared main points of the scheme after the 3 suspects had been arrested this spring.

They had been known as Mario Alex Medina (aka “Shyboy”), his son, Jose Salud Medina (aka “Gordo”), and Mario’s sister, Maria Alejandra Medina. 

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On Nov. 5, 2022, R.V., who has circle of relatives in L.A. however has Mexican citizenship, was once kidnapped by means of 3 contributors of the Medina circle of relatives, federal prosecutors stated. 

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Over the following two days, R.V.’s circle of relatives gained unnerving pictures and movies in their beloved one in captivity, together with one by which R.V. was once blindfolded and tied up in a concrete oblong trench with weapons pointed at his head.

On Nov. 7, 2022, R.V.’s circle of relatives gained a video “of hostage takers beating Sufferer R.V. with their fists, toes, and a hammer,” the legal grievance says. 

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They firstly demanded a $70,000 ransom. By way of Nov. 10, 2022, Jose Medina, 31, allegedly threatened to kill R.V. if the circle of relatives did not instantly pay $30,000, consistent with the legal grievance.

The similar day, the alleged kidnappers crossed the border to gather the ransom cash in San Ysidro, California, which is a brief distance from Tijuana. 

They met at a McDonald’s, the place R.V.’s circle of relatives paid $30,000. 

The alleged kidnappers crossed the border to gather the ransom cash in San Ysidro, California, which is a brief distance from Tijuana. (Google Maps)

Maria Medina, 50, stated they “just about” assured R.V.’s protection ahead of taking flight again into Mexico, the federal grievance says. 

Mexican regulation enforcement discovered the sufferer “tied up and on my own in a small subterranean trench” on Nov. 11, 2022, court docket paperwork say. 

The suspects refrained from seize for approximately two years till they had been arrested in March and April. 

They had been each and every indicted by means of a federal grand jury on April 9 on a rate of constructing international verbal exchange with intent to extort, which carries a most existence sentence. 

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Maria and Mario were in federal custody within the U.S. since March and April, respectively, consistent with court docket paperwork. 

Jose is these days being held in a Mexican jail. He has suffered scientific headaches that experience averted his delivery from Mexico to the U.S., court docket paperwork say. 

The alleged 2022 abduction took place in the similar space the place an American, who was once engaged to be married in August, and two Australians had been killed all through a botched carjacking in Would possibly. 

Jack Carter Rhoad, who was once killed in a Mexican carjacking, was once engaged to be wed to Natalie Weirtz this summer time. (GoFundMe)

Australian brothers Callum Robinson and Jake Robinson, best left, and U.S. citizen Jack Carter Rhoad, proper (Reuters)

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Every suspect in R.V.’s kidnapping is represented by means of a special federal defender within the Central District of California. 

Fox Information Virtual reached out to the attorneys for remark and extra details about the timeline of the instances however did not get an instantaneous reaction.