Peñitas Police Chief Roel Bermea said their families have been in touch with Mexican authorities, who are investigating their disappearance.
From left, Maritza Rios, Marina Rios, and Dora Saenz.Courtesy of Penitas Police Department
Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47; Marina Perez Rios, 48; and their friend, Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz, 53, were traveling in a green mid-1990s Chevy Silverado to a flea market in the city of Montemorelos, in Nuevo Leon state. It’s about a three-hour drive from where the sisters are from in Peñitas, a small border city in Texas near McAllen.
Very few details have been released. The FBI said it is "unable to provide comment on this ongoing investigation" and "relentlessly pursues all options when it comes to protecting the American people, and this doesn’t change when they are endangered across the border."
The fate of the three women, who haven’t been heard from in about two weeks, remains a mystery and has garnered relatively little publicity.
Peñitas Police Chief Roel Bermea said their families have been in touch with Mexican authorities, who are investigating their disappearance.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection say the three women crossed into Mexico on Feb. 24, according to Bermea. Peñitas is a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande.
The husband of one of the women spoke to her by phone while she was traveling in Mexico, the police chief said, but he grew concerned when he couldn’t reach her afterward.
“Since he couldn’t make contact over that weekend, he came in that Monday and reported it to us,” Bermea said. The three women haven’t been heard from since.
Bermea said the women were traveling in a green mid-1990s Chevy Silverado to a flea market in the city of Montemorelos, in Nuevo Leon state. It’s about a three-hour drive from the border. Officials at the state prosecutor’s office said they have been investigating the women’s disappearance since Monday.
Last week, four Americans on a road trip to Matamoros, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, were shot and kidnapped. Two members of the group died, and two others have been returned to the U.S.
The friends had traveled to Mexico because one woman in the group was seeking a cosmetic procedure, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. The official said cartel gunmen targeted the group in a case of mistaken identity.
The Gulf cartel apologized Thursday, and five people were arrested Friday.
The government response and search for the four Americans is in contrast to efforts to locate 112,000 Mexicans missing nationwide, many of whom are being searched for only by their desperate relatives.
Hispanic women. Nothing will get done. It's a shame
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot more than 112,000 Mexicans that have been disappeared in the last decade or so.
ReplyDeleteAs to the recent murders in Matamoros, the AP did interview Cheryl Orange, the fifth person who was denied entry into Mexico. This story confirms that she does exist and was denied entry into Mexico by U.S. authorities for the lack of identification to return to the U.S. She also advised the AP that the others left their luggage with her and stated that they were only going to drop off the women for her surgery and return to pick her up later.
The press is also reporting that they were in Mexico for 2 1/2 hours before their abduction. It appears that they got lost looking for the surgeon's office. The woman had been to Matamoros at least once before but no one is reporting that she had previously been to the doctor's office. A commentor here stated that she had been to this doctor previously, which I believe this information is false because their is nothing in the news reports indicating she had previously been to the doctor's office and the commentor doesn't cite his source.
That's less than 160, 000 that go missing every year in the USA.
DeleteRemember the 4 who got killed in Zacatecas around Christmas?
ReplyDeleteWhy didn’t the MSM talk about them much, if anything after they were found dead?
Yes I don't know why the FBI, they not use their integration on this issue, I remember the fiancee was a US citizen.
DeleteLater weeks it was said, they were shot at by Narcos, at an illegal checkpoint.
As of this second nothing has been done by the Mexican government.
I never heard about them being shot at a checkpoint, only that their bodies were found somewhere along a road..
Delete1218 because there was video of 4 getting kidnapped. Video is more powerful and gets ratings.
DeleteI don’t get it.. they risked their lives to sell clothes at a flea market in Mexico?
ReplyDeleteThey couldn’t find a flea market in Texas, seriously??
I still don’t believe the “cosmetic procedure” story about the 4 from North Carolina.. They went down there with 5 people to accompany one woman for a procedure in Matamoros, the most dangerous city in the (border) state of Tamaulipas?
Apparently a girlfriend/wife of one of the men said she didn’t even know he went, he didn’t tell her he left or where he was going…
Just doesn’t add up.
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DeleteBring used clothing from the U.S. to Mexico to sell at the local tanguis is common in Mexico.
All of the publicly available information indicates that they traveled to Mexico so the lady could get the procedure. The F.B.I. states that there was nothing nefarious about their trip and the F.B.I. has information that is not available to the general public.
Humans don't always do things that make sense.
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DeleteJust because you don't get it, doesn't mean that it doesn't add up. As Detroit mentioned above, short dashes across the border are super common in the Hispanic communities, especially those living right at the border.
Also, that particular route in Tamaulipas is very low risk most of the time. They probably crossed at Anzalduas, which is the closest crossing point to their home town of Penitas, then took Mex-40 to General Bravo, then intended to take Mex-35 all the way to Montemorelos. Three middle-aged Mexican women in an old Silverado aren't exactly a valuable target, but they simply may have encountered the wrong group at the wrong time (much like the four Americans last week).
Mex doesnt allow used clothes into mex
Delete3:47 somebody in Aduana is getting paid to let it through.
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"very low risk"? there is no such thing in Mexico as very low risk. Its like playing russian roulette. That route is deserted and a lot of "brechas" where you won't know who's lurking until they are in front of you. China and General Bravo are dangerous areas as well, small towns always in a power struggle.
Delete@5:25 — thank you.. I don’t understand how anyone can say traveling through Tamaulipas is low risk..
DeleteThe difference in coverage is due to the existence of video for the Matamoros incident. It's not about anything else. But...wondering...why drive three hours south of the border to sell clothes at a flea market? It's not like you're going to make more money selling in Mexico than at a flea market in the USA.
ReplyDeleteThen the gas! I mean, that’s a long trip by car, right??
DeleteHow in the hell is that flea market worth enough to justify the gas alone??
I've met Americans who dumpster dive for clothes to sell in Mexico so there must be some money in it.
DeleteBelieve it or not yes u can make more in Mexico if ur wise and buy at gringo yard sales where people just want to get rid of their excess stuff next time you’re in Mexico go check the prices of clothes they are not cheap!!
DeleteA dollar is a dollar. No matter how you get it. They may go to the flea markets 7 days a week. I know people that hustle like that myself.
DeleteThey call them swap meets in California.
DeleteAnd everywhere outside of California they call them pulgas
DeletePeople go to the Salvation Army auctions to sell cloth in Mexico. Been happening for 30 years or more. Just because you haven't heard about doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Ignorance is never evidence.
DeleteMy grandma used to sell American clothes in Mexico for a living. Your talking about 25 years ago. She would say that the clothing would sell like “pan caliente”.
DeleteI see all these comments but even so, clearly there is a huge risk when it comes to even traveling to a state close to the border..
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DeleteThese women may be Mexican nationals trying to earn an honest peso. To them, going to Mexico is going home.
They are not Black or White so no FBI reward or major media attention.
ReplyDeleteMove on. Nothing to see here.
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Also they are Mexican so naturally we dont hear the racist comments and all the doubt concerning their true intention for crossing the border. I myself dont doubt they came for anything other than what they said , but the comments here amaze me.
DeleteOh no you didn't!! Let's not get started on race. What Sol did here and BB does, is continue to inform us about a major concern that has zero race slant, and the rest of the world needs to have hammered home repeatedly. People, are going extinct in Mexico. People. Period.
DeleteJay oh nine is still triggered
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DeleteJayohnine still bitter from last post lol
But i stated the facts. I believe my TRUTH hurt you a little bit.
DeleteThey weren't criticising BB, they were criticising a lack of ''major media attention'', which was suggested in the last paragraph. Read the assumptions about the 4 Americans in the comments before pretending other people are pulling some card.
DeleteVery sad to say, but there only mistake was not including someone in there group with an American name.
ReplyDeleteAlso, re-selling American used clothing overseas is a big business all over the world.
Yea 02:36 you can make 5-10x your money depending
DeleteWhen travelling in Central America in mid 90s I encountered American people from Louisiana who brought in used clothing by the container load and sold it by the kilo to local wholesalers who sold it by the piece in their markets. That's why you encounter kids in the back country wearing "Chicago Bulls" "Dallas Cowboys" and "Mickey Mouse" t-shirts. US sports teams and Disney shit bring a premium price.
ReplyDeleteI never realized that till now. But I always wondered what shirts like that and New York Yankee jerseys and decent nice Nikes we’re doing way down in a barrio in Latin America. Now I know. Educational moment. Gracias 🙏
Delete@9:58 - the locals would prefer the used American clothing to the cheaper new knock-offs and could definitely tell the difference
DeleteWhy isn't anyone researching the criminal histories of these three Mexican women like they did the Black tourists?
ReplyDeleteBecause Texas doesn't make the records available for free. Black, white, Mexican, Chinese....I'd research anyone who disappears in Mexico. (Yeah, I already tried).
Delete12:12 i pointed that out earlier but was told i was still bitter over the racist post about the black Americans.....its fruitless asking that question.
DeleteThose Texas border towns on the Mexican side are level 4 for a reason! Same travel advisory as Iraq! I’ve traveled to TJ, Mexicali, Nogales and San Luis Río Colorado, California and Arizona border towns my whole life for pleasure, family, etc but when I was down in McAllen for work back in 2019 for a few months I didn’t even think about going to Reynosa or Nuevo progreso or Laredo or matamoros or whatever because I took that level 4 advisory seriously! I wasn’t gonna take any unnecessary risks!
ReplyDeleteI love to shower in the morning.
DeleteNo word from the crooked swampy failed justice garland? HUH? Wrong skin color! Liberals are the most diabolical racists there are, all the while they scream racists to anybody who doesn’t agree with their attempt to flood USA streets with career criminals, even accused murderers get ankle monitoring. Over 400 in Chicago are out on house arrest. The push by the liberals to normalize the biggest %(14-40 year old black males) of mass shooters, serial offenders, rapists, serial rapiers, murderers, attempted murderers, car jackers, illegal gun possessors, drug dealers, and armed robbers is a diabolical plan to crush the black community by flooding it with savage criminals who they keep letting out! The fbi stats speak for themselves. These poor women mean absolutely nothing to the liberals the White House or the justice department.
ReplyDeleteBoneheaded gaslighters.Its clearly the Republicans who are scum.Like cheating or trying to cheat in the election and blaming the Democrats.
DeleteTalk to trees.
Aww snowflakesbare out in effect
Delete@6:40 F.A.C.T.S
DeleteAt the end of the day amigo this America only true color there is is green. Now go marinate on that and get out your moms basement go get fresh air. Leave the game alone. Only people talk the racist shit are brokies.
Delete8:32 facts is not an abbreviation.
DeleteWith all due respect, why the heck would someone from America go to Mexico to sell something. Deals in America are better for the merchant.
ReplyDeleteAmerican clothes on sale or discount here in the states sell like hot cakes in Mexico for full price. My aunt made a killing especially on baby clothes from Carters back in the 90s. The rich people in Mexico who don't have visas to cross the border buy these things they don't have access to in Mexico. It's convenient for the well off.
DeleteThe word got out and It has become a Very common practice now days I would not put it past someone who has become a competitor to another to put a hit on them. Sad but true.
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@5:08 — thank you for sharing, but that was the 90s… a time that we absolutely cannot compare to this day..
DeleteWhy are US news agencies announcing this now a month after they disappeared? Highly suspicious...you wanna invade a country you set the tone so that the American Public is on board. Textbook Americana.
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Delete'Why are US news agencies announcing this now' I smell a conkspiwacie,nah its your socks.No you have a valid point,weally,i was wondering why we cant catch so many tears for dams?
9:02 Get a grip!
DeleteWho said US agency is announcing this? It's a news channel, a news channel is not the US.
This shit happens to damn often. I hope theyre found alive. But seems less likely
ReplyDelete@8:31 all kinds of used second hand stuff sell for top dollar in méxico and other Latin American countries, used cars, used car parts, used tires, used clothes, used appliances, used bicycles etc! Huge secondary buyers market over there! The used cloths merchants are called fayuqueras! In the callejones here in LA they sell pallets of all kinds of used clothes, shoes etc and the fayuqueras ship them to méxico and Latin America for resale! Not just used clothes but also overflow liquidated new clothing from big box chain retail stores! Every time I drive south to any border town, I always see trucks with trailers loaded up with used appliances etc! And you also see used 90s 80s Toyota pick ups heading south in caravans with each pickup towing another pickup (un jalon) and they’re usually headed to Guatemala or Nicaragua for resale via méxico they usually cross thru the rgv southeast Texas border towns! We live in a global economy and a lot of people that’s how they make their living or side hustle from exporting used clothing to sell at swap meets, pulgas, tianguis in méxico to used appliances and used cars/trucks and parts!
ReplyDeleteStart bangin on about the U.S and its lack of effort cause their'latino'if they were white they would save them,they dont care,wah wah wah
ReplyDeleteTodos continuamente to suck the U.S into these stories?Wouldn't mind but the same crying bitches are sitting in safety in the U.S?If people hate the U.S so much why dont you fuck off back to mexico and give our ears a rest.Nunca termina
ReplyDeleteI dated a woman from Tlalpan (suburban Mexico City) who would go to the market in Tepito (dangerous Mexico City) to buy clothes that she liked for resale at 2x 3x her cost to the other fresa college girls at Pedregal (private school). Whatever she didn't sell she would wear. Mexicans are super smart at localized distribution schemes and as in drugs - price and availability are everything.
ReplyDeleteI dated a lady from Venus.
DeleteHope they find them alive prayers for them but they weren't going to a flea market probably taking money down there.
ReplyDeleteYou remind me of that old Corchado quote- ''In Mexico they kill you twice- once with bullets, and then with character assassination''.
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