THE SEARCH FOR AN ALLEGED KIDNAPPER CONTINUES IN NEW MEXICO. FBI AGENTS WHO WERE HEAVILY ARMED DID RAID A COMPOUND ON THE WEST MESA IN BERNALILLO COUNTY LOOKING FOR THE SUSPECT, JOSE RAMIREZ. THEY SAY HE’S AT THE CENTER OF A BIZARRE CASE IN WHICH HE TIED OF HIS FORMER BOSS, THEN TRIED TO GET THE BOSS’S FAMILY TO WIRE 10-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO GUADALAJARA , MEXICO.
THE VICTIM HAD FIRED RAMIREZ A FEW YEARS AGO FOR STEALING FROM THE BUSINESS. THE EX-BOSS WAS REPORTED KIDNAPPED LAST WEEK SO RAMIREZ COULD EXTORT MONEY FROM HIM. HE WAS GRABBED AS HE LEFT HIS HOME IN PLACITAS BY TWO MEN WEARING STOCKING CAPS AND BANDANAS … PISTOL-WHIPPED, BLINDFOLDED, FORCED INTO HIS TRUCK AND TAKEN TO A SHED AT AN UNKNOWN LOCATION. HE’S BEEN RELEASED BUT CALL RECORDS LED FBI AGENTS TO RAMIREZ, WHO’S ON PAROLE AND STILL ON THE RUN.
