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FBI seeks help after mother of seven with California ties kidnapped in Mexico

FBI seeks help after mother of seven with California ties kidnapped in Mexico

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Maria Del Carmen Lopez was kidnapped on the afternoon of February 9, 2023, the FBI says. 

Maria Del Carmen Lopez was kidnapped on the afternoon of February 9, 2023, the FBI says. 

FBI Los Angeles

The FBI is seeking the public’s help after a woman with California ties was reportedly kidnapped in Colima, Mexico, five weeks ago. 

Maria del Carmen Lopez, who has Mexican and US citizenship, was abducted outside her Mexico home on February 9, the agency says. 

“She is loved by family and friends and we are all praying for her safe return. We have been unsuccessful in identifying her whereabouts,” Lopez’s daughter Zonia Lopez wrote on a GoFundMe page. “We all miss her dearly and are desperately awaiting her safe return home.”

The FBI’s Los Angeles field office shared photos of Lopez. She is 63 years old, 160 pounds, 5-foot-2 and has blonde hair, brown eyes and tattooed eyeliner. The bureau is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to her physical location.

FBI spokesperson Laura Eimiller told the LA Times that Lopez, a great-grandmother with seven children, has family in Los Angeles and Riverside counties and goes back and forth between the US and Mexico. Zonia Lopez told ABC7 that investigators have ruled out cartel involvement in the kidnapping, and said witnesses saw Lopez being abducted in a white van outside her home. “It’s been 37 days,” she told the outlet. “At this point we need answers. We need to find my mother.”

A missing persons poster for Maria Del Carmen Lopez was shared by the FBI last week. 

A missing persons poster for Maria Del Carmen Lopez was shared by the FBI last week. 

FBI Los Angeles

The disappearance comes at a time of increased concerns surrounding the safety of Americans and tourists in Mexico. On March 3, two Americans on a road trip were killed by cartel gunmen in a possible case of mistaken identity in Matamoros. In another incident, two Texas sisters and a friend who traveled over the border to a flea market in Nuevo Leon on February 24 have not been seen since.

Anyone with information about Maria del Carmen Lopez is asked to contact the FBI’s Los Angeles office at 310-477-6565 or submit a tip on their site.

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