A friend traveling with the four Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico says she contacted police when they did not return to the U.S.
LAKE CITY, S.C. — The frantic effort to rescue four Americans taken captive in Mexico in a kidnapping that left two dead came after a woman traveling with the group contacted police when they did not return to the U.S. side as expected.
The five friends had driven a rented minivan from South Carolina on Thursday to the southern tip of Texas, according to a police report based on Orange's account. Four of them left Friday morning around 8 a.m. to go to Mexico.kidnapping “She simply went for a cosmetic surgery, and that’s it. That’s all, and this happened to them,” Orange said.
Orange told authorities in Brownsville that she had everyone’s luggage but had been unable to reach them, according to the police report.It said Orange was given a phone number to follow up with criminal investigators on Monday if she hadn’t heard from her friends. A GoFundMe set up by Brown’s family said his relatives hope the “loving son, brother, uncle and friend” gets the “goodbye that he deserves."
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