Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Real Estate Developer kidnapped in Puerto Vallarta

The real estate businessman José Felipe Tomé Velázquez, business associate to the Bribiesca brothers, children of the former first lady, Martha Sahagún, wife of President Vicente Fox, was kidnapped by a command early Sunday morning in Puerto Vallarta; during the events, one of his associates was assassinated.

Preliminary reports indicate that after dining out at a restaurant in the Fluvial Vallarta subdivision, the businessman and four other people were heading to his residence in Nuevo Vallarta when, around 02:00 a.m., they were intercepted by several armed subjects, at the junction of Las Juntas . . .

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