Cancun, Q.R. — Five people have been charged with the kidnapping of a young Cancun student last week. The young teen was taken by force from outside his school on July 24 while he was waiting in his car for the building to open.
Public security cameras captured his vehicle traveling along a Cancun roadway. The car was eventually located outside a private residence and the young man rescued.
However, he was not rescued before his kidnappers videoed him and demanded 3 million pesos from his family. Three of those involved in the kidnapping were arrested in Merida, while two were captured still in Cancun.
On Saturday, the State Attorney General (FGE) announced the charges against the five involved. Edson de Jesús “N” and Adriana “N” were captured in Cancun while José Armando “N”, Erik Fernando “N” and Hernando José “N” were arrested in Mérida.
“The events for which they were prosecuted occurred on July 24 of this year, when the victim was kidnapped by three subjects outside a school located on Fonatur Avenue in Cancun, while he was waiting in his car for the school to open where he is a student.
“They later transferred him in the same vehicle to an apartment in the Villas Otoch Paraíso subdivision in SM 259 where they recorded a video to send to the victim’s parents, demanding 3 million pesos for his release,” the Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE) reported.
According to the FGE, the 16-year-old student was rescued the same day he was kidnapped.