Kidnapped hunter is released
A Texas man kidnapped by as many as 40 gunmen at a Mexican hunting ranch in November was released near an international bridge near Laredo, Mexican officials said.
Librado Pina III, 25, of Laredo, was set free in reasonable health, though he was dehydrated.
He was on a hunting trip with his father and three other men at a ranch near the U.S. border when they were abducted.
David Mueller, 45, of the Sweetwater area in Texas, and Fidel Rodriguez Cerdan, of Monterrey, Mexico, were released unharmed three days later. Still missing are Librado Pina Jr., 49, and the hunting ranch’s Mexican cook, Marco Ortiz.
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