Puerto Morelos, Q.R. — Police have successfully located two people kidnapped and held for ransom since Friday. The pair, who are from Cancun, were located on a ranch in the municipality of Puerto Morelos over the weekend.
According to authorities, on the afternoon of July 18, agents specialized in kidnapping and extortion received a phone call from a man who reported the possible kidnapping of a relative and his colleague. Both men are employees of a business who had gone to do work at a hotel in Puerto Morelos and were to later travel to a ranch located on the Cancun-Leona Vicario highway for a scheduled evaluation appointment.
It was at this point that contact was lost with the victims and the complainant received calls from phone numbers demanding 100,000 pesos for their release.
Investigative Police located the victims unharmed on a property on the Cancun-Leona Vicario highway. One of them was in a van on the phone with the alleged kidnappers who were identified by the victim as the individuals who kidnapped them.
The two businessmen were transferred to the FGE in Cancun to file an official complaint. Police have not identified the two men alleged responsible for the kidnappings.
Earlier this month, a mother and her adult son were also found being held captive on a ranch in the municipality of Puerto Morelos. Police have not said if this latest kidnapping involved the same ranch.
