FBI offers $20,000 reward in unsolved 2003 kidnapping of American boy in Mexico

The FBI has offered a $20,000 reward for information about the disappearance of an American boy who was kidnapped 20 years ago in Mexico City.

Joshua Keshaba Sierra Garcia was in Mexico to be baptized when he was taken at around 11 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 12, 2003, officials said. Garcia, born in Los Angeles on Dec. 29, 2001, was months shy of his second birthday at the time.

One kidnapper was arrested after a series of ransom calls and a money drop, officials said. The kidnapper is serving a lengthy prison sentence in Mexico. The FBI has released several images of Joshua Keshaba Sierra Garcia in the years since his kidnapping in 2003."While many investigative steps have been taken to find Joshua over the years in both the United States and in Mexico, we have not given up hope that we can find him and determine what happened to him 20 years ago," Donald Alway, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, said.

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