Boy’s kidnappers promise revenge if family cooperates with authorities, mom says

Posted By: Carolyn Hileman* on December 31, 2007

Human traffickers are threatening family members of a Houston boy who was kidnapped in an apparent Christmas Eve dispute over $4,000 owed for smuggling his sister from Mexico, the boy’s mother said.

Francisca Torres, 37, said Wednesday she has received three calls at her home from smugglers since her son Luis Antonio Gonzalez, 14, was freed by authorities in Austin and returned to Houston late Christmas Day.

‘’They don’t want money. They are telling me to retract my statement, to say it was a mistake, a misunderstanding,” Torres said. ‘’It’s a big organization they have, and they could hurt us here and in Mexico.”

During the calls, she said the smugglers threatened relatives in Houston and Mexico with harm if they continued to cooperate with authorities.

Torres also said smugglers mentioned the location of her youngest daughter, who is expecting a baby and lives in Mexico.
One of the men who held her son told him they were connected to the feared Zetas, a group of Mexican military defectors who are assassins and enforcers for the Gulf Cartel drug trafficking ring.
‘’We are afraid — afraid of the smugglers and afraid of the immigration authorities,” said Torres, acknowledging they could be deported because they are illegal immigrants.

And at their modest home on Wednesday, the family seemed to be on edge. Every time a car would stop along the street outside, either Luis or his younger brother would peer out from the curtains.

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