The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of four Americans believed to have been kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico after crossing into Matamoros, Tamaulipas. NBC News Ken Dilanian reports on if the FBI knows why the Americans crossed the border and what Mexico’s president is saying about the situation.
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Unclear why 4 Americans kidnapped in Mexico crossed the border, FBI says
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Drop the nuke on the city!
I really didn’t like Trump but his focus on border security was correct. Too many ignorant Americans do not understand how dangerous it is in Mexico and how that spills over into the United States. They instead want to focus on how something is “racist” no matter the reality.
“The state of Mexico”??????
There’s phone video recording of two victims who appear to be male being dragged and lifted onto the back of the pick up truck along with the one female who is alive at the time of the recording. The 4th one is not seen, but in another picture from a civilian, there is that 4th victim lying on the ground.
Where is this recording found?
Its not looking god at all 🙏
I’m gonna take a wild guess. FENTANYL. And I doubt that this would have been their first run.
Medicines or Drugs?
Sucks to be an American right now.
It’s almost as if the U.S. has made itself unlikable.
Matamoros, I believe mean Moor ( as in the ones that ruled Spain before the Spanish Inquisition ) Killer…
Extremely dangerous place where The GULF CARTEL rule.
Their Enforcement Arm was LOS ZETAS, until The ZETAS broke away and formed themselves into their own independent Gang/Cartel.
NOT 🚫 a good place to go wandering around !
America is such a third world country
Do we usually offer rewards for humans?? I find $50k reward out of sync with America’s usual response..not judging just seems like it’s a new tactic.
Exchange of gunfire?? The only exchange was bullets for blood. Three of the four are already dead.
That dam surgery
there to buy drugs to make meth in the usa
.looked like mostly innocent and peaceful
I recommend flying to Mexico. Driving into Mexico is very risky.
Do not go to Mexico, Mexico is a failed state ruled by a corrupt leftist narco president that hates the U.S., he is in open war with the U.S. but he doesn’t have an army, he uses drug cartels and illegal migrants instead
Mexico is a country not a state
I see a future dismembering about to happen.
North Carolina is a long assed way from Mehico
I’m wondering who these people are and why the FBI would spend any money on them…
I don’t believe anything from the news or the FBI anymore.
One woman went to Mexico for a tummy tuck. One cousin and two friends went with her
They went to get drugs.
I remember in the 80s and 90s shopping there. So sad! Praying!
Matamoros, Mx. or Hidalgo, Mx are not safe places to cross. Progreso, Mx is the only safe crossing place one can go to get medicine, dental, or food.
Over 100 Americans are murdered in Mexico every year. More than Iraq?
They RAMMED the cartel checkpoint. An innocent Mexican female caught in crossfire and killed. All of this nonsense about surgery & medicine is smoke blown up our collective azzes.
Oh well guess we have to send more army and money to Ukraine so our borders are safe…. Hahahaha Americans are so stupid it’s second hand embarrassment
Please put CABEZA DE VACA behind the bars
That politician is corrupted and know exactly all the carters leading that area
He was part of his own carter while he worked as governor
Cartels have informants working at the border checkpoint use critical thinking it might help you
It seems that the North Carolina people had been spotted driving into Matamoros, Mexico. Then they were assaulted. The cartels could have made a mistake but they still took them. They don’t care. I am hoping that they are okay. They need to check some of the ranches.
From NC to Mexico to by medicine. Hopefully that’s true but I’m skeptical bout that. It’s sad that you can’t go to a beautiful country.
Just got the update!
2 of them were found alive and the other 2 were found dead.
What would ANY body need to go to this backward a**, place for? At all? The medical care in the us sucks now. But, that bad that one would go to neanderthalville?
Exchange of gunfire huh? So the Americans had guns too ? 🤔 I wonder what they were up to !
Actually accurate reporting and not implying that they are involved with anything illegal or illicit for looking for medical treatment. 👍
They all have huge rap sheets full of drug trafficking and manufacturing. Occam’s Razor is undefeated, my friend.
They go get drugs
So basically the corrupt FBI is saying each life is only worth 12,500😂
We need to go in and clean it up for Mexico.
IF THEY HAD TO GO TO MEXICO OF ALL THE PLACES IN THE WORLD TO GET MEDICINE,WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT THE STATE OF OUR COUNTRY
It was cosmetic surgery and medicine they needed
@HF So if they had to go for that,I can’t help by wonder about the desperation for the medicine,the cosmetic surgery is another thing
50k? Cartels make 50k a minute
How can there be so many versions of this? Beginning with the van being from North Carolina or South Carolina…
All for a botox procedure smh.
My church stopped going to Mexico 10 years ago because of the highway bandits.
Two have been found dead.
I heard that 2 were found dead and 2 were injured.
Ask yourself this why is the FBI making this an important issue for people kidnapped come on man you how many people get kidnapped from Mexico that are Americans every day why these four white interest in these four ask yourself that who are these for you should always questioned why is the FBI involved big red flag
Who did they think they were kidnapping?
“Exchange of gunfire” implies they were able to fight back. They weren’t. Two were killed immediately, then they were all dragged out and thrown in the bed of a truck.
I live 20 minutes from Matamoros and I would not take chance crossing the border. Cartel members see license plates from the US and that automatically makes you a target. They seem to think that one has money just because you’re from this side of the border. These Americans likely went across the border to get medication for cheap, go to dentist, or eat delicious street tacos. Hope they’re found safe. Hopefully this isn’t another case like Mark Kilroy.
Lol even he is like, “biatch I just said to buy medicines!!” She didn’t listen to a word he said.
Someone needs to tell this reporter that Mexico is not a state. It’s a country.
50,000 for 4 Americans and billions to Ukraine!!! Fu biden
Wasn’t medical tourism? An esthetic procedure?
The Americans were seeking asylum from a tyrannical gov.
I guess they never paid attention to the media about cartel violence?
Women lol
why so dumb fbi? 50k cant even buy 1/2 kidney. this kidnappers will harvest and sell their organs and do anything just to get more money. what a dumb amateur organisation. 5 millions for info at least sound more effective.
How stoopid that journalist in the studio with black dress asking the SAME question again as why they went there.
I am not buying the reason these 4 crossed the country for the girls plastic surgery BS they were running drugs is my guess I know about Mexicos med tourism and it’s not performed in or near the area they were headed. Oh but what a grand news we all have to endure if they were white you would be lucky for a blip. With all cartels across the US how did they make it that far REALLY I’ve watched and know numerous Americans and Canadians living in Mexico no problems look at recent Antifa crime in Atlanta across the US who’s committing it yep we all know the majority moulians
I like how he answered the question but she had to ask it anyway.
50k? is the government broke or smthg?
Who cares why they crossed. It’s confirmed they had nothing to do with drugs so who cares? Why do we have an open border to a country we can’t visit safely? That’s the real question.
So they want to rewatd the Cartels and are blaming it on the victims😡
They were innocent. 🤣 They were not trying to buy drugs or anything like that. They drove all the way from North Carolina for a medical procedure… 😁 What you think come on USA……. 😂 North Carolina 24hrs drive to get Mexican medicine 💊💊💊
Our healthcare and prescription drug system is so unaffordable that people have to travel to Mexico to get treatment/medicine. Sad.
I’m not sure the story we’re hearing is as ‘simple’ as it’s being relayed. A case of ‘mistaken identity? We unfortunately may not ever know even if they’re found.
I can’t fathom what drugs or ‘medicines’ were worth obtaining over the border to risk your lives in the process.
I bet these blacks thought they could act like thugs with impunity like in America, but they learned a lesson and got what they deserved. In Mexico there is a famous saying that goes something like this – “homie don’t play dat game.”
I know they were black. They don’t like blackies down there.
Well they are criminals so…
Once you cross the border to Mexico there’s literally people there giving the heads up to the cartel what vehicle you driving so they can pull you over up ahead, it happen to me recently asking for the famous cuota
They went over there to buy drugs and got caught up
Surgery?The fake news at work
Maybe people ought to be asking why it’s so bad here that everyone wants to leave and goto Mexico for medicine. No constraints on big pharma who are a bunch of crooks.
I can’t believe anyone is surprised about this?!?!
I live 1/2 mile from Matamoros mexico and I go there to party really hard .
For a tummy tuck?
Sad that Amercian travel to Mexico that Afforable their
Even sugary are cheep in Mexico
You have a camera that can break down the scene if you really wanted to find these people you could have but you didn’t even try stop lying to everybody
AFTER CROSSING THE BORDER, DRUGS ARE NOT IMPOUNDED IN USA.
DRUG LORDS SHULD BE PERSECUTED IN USA AS WELL. SOMBODY MUST PROTECT THEM FOR MONEY INVOLVED.
YOU DRIVE THERE OMG THESE MUFUKAS CRAZY
Praying these people are well snd return to their family safe. Also, Mexico is a country, Matamoros is a city in the state of Tamaulipas. Make sure to be on top of geography as a professional and correct yourself since you are informing the public. 😊
We gotta get Jack Bauer down there!!
Tummy tuck the cover story I believe it’s about drugs
Sumbody had a dumb idea to go straight to the plug
Plastic surgery? How about drugs purchase.
DID THEY ALSO MENTION THAT THOSE KIDNAPED PEOPLE HAD PAST CRIMINAL RECORDS OF DRUGS POSESION, DRUG DEALING, AND ONE CHARGE OF DRUG SELLING TO MINORS??AND WHO KNOWS WHO ELSE THEY WERE MESSING WITH OR “MEDICINE” TRYING TO BUY LOL…AND CARTELS ARE NO FORCE TO BE MESSED WITH SPECIALY IN THEYR TURF….NOOO RIGHT THEY DIDNT METION THAT? AMERICAN MEDIA ALWAYS LEAVING OUT DETAILS!…LISTEN MEXICO DRUG CARTELS DONT JUST GO FOR ANYONE! THOSE GUYS HAVE A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY WITH GOOD TECHNOLOGY,THEY KNOW VERY WELL WHAT JOBS AND HOW TO DO IT THESE GUYS ARE ALL OVER THE WORLD AND CONTROL HALF THE MARKET!THEYRE NOT APES OR STUPID! I LIVE IN MEXICO, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF TOURIST FLOWING TROUGH HERE DAY IN AND OUT AND CARTELS KNOW! THEY KNOW WELL WHO THEY GO FOR!!!
Can we just be honest and stop pushing fake news I wish the news and just admit it’s because Mexico join the B.R.I.C.S alliance and that makes China fake money worth more than our fake money lol because Brazil already part of it that’s why the government started a insurrections in there coin and they have the largest economy in South American and Mexico has the second highest it’s seen to me every county that has join B.R.I.C.S this is sickening you ppl should be ashamed of yourself
They were there to buy drugs lets get real here…
It’s a total insult to all productive and innocent people from Mexico and the U.S. to just minimize these criminals and label them as only Cartel members when in reality they are more like a terrorist organization and are supplied by weapons made in the great U.S.A.The only way this war will end is when U.S. elects a leader that will have better communication with a Mexican president that has the courage to declare war against all cartel members in Mexico and not live each day with a gun pointed to his head
https://youtu.be/mK3HaOo_PI0
The Mexicans said they made a mistake when they thought the Americans were Haitian drug smugglers.
Polizei leipzig Polizei Sachsen Polizei Deutschland haben völlig versagt die machen nichts gegen Cyberterror in Leipzig Gholis süd .
Moral of the story. Don’t do drugs !
North America would fall 🍁
Un clear what 4 us citizens crossed into Mexico? Just say why the crossed into Mexico and it wasn’t because then went to have a medical procedure or to get “medicine”
The media always seems to misinform and fabricate false information. Anyhow, sad situation overall but, none the less praying for all those who were affected regardless of the situation. There is alot of unanswered questions and maybe there will be more to this story that will unfold in the days to come. First question of concern? How did these americans get randomly targeted, as if these attackers choose these individuals on a hunch and randomly confirmed the victims by first glance (hard to beleive). The theory shoot first ask questions last no longer fitting for the present day not even for the dumbest of criminals (are we assuming cartels arent strategic). It is no secret that there are many crooked customs agents in Mexico as well as throughout the world. These crooked agents may have alerted or tipped off the cartels maybe by license plate( to the certainty of these individual and given information of their arrival of into the country. Another theory is that this may have possibly been a pre-planned meeting between the parties but, we have to remember Cartels are not simply sitting against a cactus wearing a pancho like cavemen ready to engage in gunfire (ridiciulous stigma/stereotype) This is 2023 and they are many cartels that engage and/or involved in organized crime (dating back to the 1930’s) Also corruption has no boundaries (police, goverment officals, politicians and etc..). What makes the media think that the worlds richest and dangerous cartels are somehow living under a rock and do not have a structure (not so). These victims had to be indentified before they were confirmed crossing the border. If not that would be like finding a needle in a haystack; these cartels werent randomly waiting for these individuals to cross the border. Secondly, if you make plans to see a doctor or whomever especially in Mexico, I assume you would make sure ahead of time you had the correct location especially coming all the way from South Carolina without prior knowledge (GPS and technology) Who told them about this place? How and where they needed to go and how to get there?
We may never get these answers or truth. God Bless yall and Jesus come quickly!
They where crossing the border
To buy fentanyl….
Not medicine Sir….
Plus all 4 have record for
Manufacturing,Possession and distribution
🧢
Those Americans have criminal record. Tamaulipas is a place to buy drugs… you get the conclusion 😂😂😂
They didn’t buy any drugs,mexicant
For a bbl stupid
Stop spreading a false narrative about drugs, black people don’t do fentanyl