Jania Ashlynn
It’s been over a month since U.S. citizen Maria del Carmen Lopez was kidnapped from her Pueblo Nuevo, Colima home. The 63-year-old Southern California resident was last heard from on February 9th. The FBI is now offering $20,000 for intel leading to the woman’s location.
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Statements from a few of her seven children have been obtained by CBS Los Angeles.
“We’re doing everything we can still. We’re not gonna give up on my mom,” one of her sons, Tony, said. “We’re gonna find her, one way or another.”
Her daughter Zonia added, “There was never any sort of threats, there was never any enemies. Anything that would indicate that she was in any kind of trouble.”
A family member shared that they saw five people at Lopez’s home at the time that she disappeared.
“Someone did see. There was a car that drove into the property. There was an exchange of words, they did hear her say she would not get into the car,” Zonia shared. “Two individuals picked her up and another one came out of the van. They had their heads covered and they covered her mouth and that’s when they took her.”
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Her children believe that the abduction wasn’t personal. That their mother was just a crime of unfortunate opportunity. The family has no affiliation to criminal organizations.
“I don’t think it was isolated, to end up at a town that’s so remote, from the city, you’d really have to kind of be indicated — go there,” Zonia continued.
The FBI has joined the investigation with local law enforcement to locate the missing woman. She is described as 5’2, 160lbs with blonde hair, blue eyes, and tattooed eyeliner.
