Details are currently unclear, but it’s believed agents identified a man close to the unnamed woman and discovered she had been taken to an area of Jalisco where El Mencho was also located.
Following the death of El Mencho, US tourists have been left stranded at airports due to canceled flights and violence that has ensued in several states.
Adryan Moorefield, from Dallas, has been holidaying in Puerto Vallarta and was due to fly back home on Sunday, but is now trapped. »It was such a complete shocker, and it almost felt like being in the twilight zone, » he told CNN. « We’ve been to PV before and thought that this would be a no-brainer place to come and do a quick, easy beach vacation.”
Fellow American tourist Jim Beck has also been in Puerto Vallarta and was shocked to find ‘taxi cabs blown up all over town’ when he woke up for breakfast on Sunday morning.
Beck told CNN: « Then immediately, everyone was running down the street, screaming and yelling, and they told everyone to get back to their hotels. »
According to the BBC, the Mexican government have responded to the violent rise by deploying thousands of soldiers to affected states.Trevilla said that an extra 2,500 troops had been sent to western Mexico on Monday, while 9,500 have been deployed overall since El Mencho’s death on Sunday.
In some states, vehicles, including cars and buses, were being set alight in the middle of the road, as were numerous businesses, while roadblocks have been strewn across the country, which Mexico’s Security Cabinet said a majority had been cleared.
Meanwhile, the US embassy has urged American tourists to seek shelter amid ‘ongoing security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity’.
They further advised citizens to ‘seek shelter and minimize unnecessary movements’ as well as ‘avoid areas around law enforcement activity’.
A climber who is accused of leaving his girlfriend to die at the top of the mountain has revealed what their last conversation was.
Thomas Plamberger, 39, is in court in Innsbruck after he was charged with gross negligent manslaughter, following the death of his girlfriend, Kerstin Gurtner, 33.
