Daniela Márquez and Jose Gutierrez.Photo: Twitter
An Ohio man and his fiancée have been missing in Mexico since Christmas Day.
Jose Gutierrez and Daniela Márquez went out to eat at a bar in Zacatecas in central Mexico on Sunday, but have not been heard from since, Jose’s sister, Brandie Gutierrez, told Cincinnati’sFox 19.
“The bars actually noticed screams,” she said, and added that the family believes they could have been abducted. “There is something that is not right.”
Jose Gutierrez.Jose Gutierrez Facebook
“There were those who saw they were kidnapping them, there was a lot of panic, screams, but they didn’t get them out and they took the vehicle,” Pichardo told the outlet. “They took the girls, my daughter’s fiancé, Daniela. They took off, they went to Vivoras.”
A State Department spokesperson toldFox News Digital that the U.S. government is now working with Mexican authorities to find the missing foursome, and Gutierrez’s family has contacted the FBI and other government officials, per Fox 19.
Cincinnati architect and fiancée missing in Mexico.Twitter
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TheState Departmentcurrently has a Do Not Travel advisory for the state of Zacatecas — which is in the north-central part of the country, midway between Monterrey and Mexico City — due to “crime and kidnapping.”
“Violent crime, extortion, and gang activity are widespread in Zacatecas state,” the advisory states.
source: people.com
