Texas woman charged for kidnapping sheme of children from a school bus stop in North Carolina
March 11th, 2010 - 12:02 am ICT by BNO NewsCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA (BNO NEWS) – A Texas woman was charged for kidnapping minor children from a school bus stop, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Linda Gonzalez, 21, of Edinburg, Texas, assisted her then husband Ruben Garcia-Rosario in writing a ransom note that demanded money from the family of two targeted minor victims, threatening to kill the children if the family failed to pay the ransom amount.
Garcia-Rosario, who was Gonzalez’s husband from July 2009 through September 2009, was living at that time in Charlotte, North Carolina asked Gonzalez to write a ransom note that would be used in a scheme to kidnap two minor female victims who were then residents of Cornelius, North Carolina.
Gonzalez would receive $10,000 in exchange for her assistance in the kidnapping scheme.
Law enforcement authorities captured Garcia-Rosario in Charlotte on September 29, 2009, who at that time was in possession of several ransom notes, a photograph of the two female minor children contained in his cell phone, a loaded FIE .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol, ammunition, duct tape, latex gloves, two Mexican passports, and a ski mask.
Gonzalez is now facing a maximum term of up to 5 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both, and a term of supervised release.
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