There are approximately 600 official kidnappings in Mexico each year, around 1,860 over the last three years, and those are just the ones that are reported. With most families of kidnap victims believing it a waste of time to report the crimes to police (and the cops themselves being involved in a number of the abductions), it was only a matter of time before Mexico's bad guys would take the cue from their Colombian buddies and organize. The Arizmendi kidnapping gang-under the protection of two senior officers of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping unit as well as officials from Mexico and Morelos states (the kidnap capital of Mexico)-has snatched at least 15 victims, earning payoffs of more than US$6 million. A Tijuana kidnapping gang snatched an American in September 1998, who was rescued by police 10 days later.
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