Ledes from the Land of Enchantment

Cartel gunmen forced the couple to kidnap the Las Cruces and put a woman in the trunk

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – A Las Cruces woman told investigators that several armed people forced her to abduct her after she arrived at her home on Saturday looking for her son, Joel.

Guadalupe “Lupe” Caro, 48, said people threatened her and asked for $ 80,000 or the “product” owed to a man named “Padrino,” according to KTSM court documents.

Doña County Sheriff’s Office officials arrested Ana Caro and her husband Enrique Lucero Jr. on Sunday for alleged involvement in an activity known as a “cartel”, the sheriff said. The two face kidnapping charges.

Armed people ordered Caro to deliver the threatening message to her son’s friend or they would kill his mother. They turned to her on Saturday night, according to court records.

KTSM 9 News withholds Joel’s friend’s name for not being formally charged by the sheriff’s office. The names of the victims were also withheld for their safety.

At around 7 p.m. on Saturday, Caro said she had told Joel’s boyfriend’s mother that people were looking for her sons.

Joel’s friend was notified and a few moments later he went to his mother’s house. However, his fiancée stayed in the couple’s house.

The fiancée said that once Joel came alone to the couple’s house and asked to go inside, saying that people were looking for him and threatened to kill him.

She refused Joel entry and went to join her fiancé in his mother’s house.

The fiancée said she heard an argument in the driveway around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning before gunfire rang out. She ran into a bedroom and hid with her fiancé and his mother.

According to court records, two men blew up the door of the house with a shotgun. It wasn’t long before one of the men walked into the bedroom and took the fiancée with him.

Where’s the “soda”?

Joel’s girlfriend’s fiancé told investigators that the gunmen forced her into an SUV. She saw two men and two women in the SUV before some put a bag over her head.

She said they drove her to a dorm and put her on a couch and when they took the bag off her head she knew it was in Caro’s house.

The woman said four men and four women were in the room, including Caro and a man in border guards uniform.

She said the groups spoke in Spanish and asked where the “soda”, slang for cocaine, was.

She said she was there an hour before they tossed her in a trunk and drove her to an apartment complex in El Paso, Texas, where two men let her go.

The drive to El Paso

Caro told investigators that she and her husband were driving the woman to El Paso.

Caro said she didn’t know the woman was in her house. She said they brought her when she went to notify her son’s friend.

Caro said the woman cried when they asked where the product was and said she had nothing. She said the armed men ordered her to handcuff the woman to a chair and place a bag over her head.

Caro said she and Lucero were then instructed to get into their vehicle before the armed men put the woman in the trunk. Caro said she could hear the woman screaming and crying, and Caro allegedly threatened to shoot her if she didn’t stop.

She said they drove to several locations, including a hotel and residence in El Paso, with vehicles accompanying them.

Caro said they dropped the woman off at a place where a stranger physically took the woman out of the trunk and picked it up.

Afterward, Caro said two men got into her vehicle and instructed her husband to drive. She said she was scared of killing her and Lucero. Instead, Caro said they dropped a man at a residence and another named “Wero” at a hotel on Sunland Park Drive.

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