Public Safety

Mexican Soldiers Free 6 In Tijuana

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter

Published February 25, 2010 at 3:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

Two people who were allegedly holding six men captive are detained by the Mexican Army on February 24, 2010 at the Mexican Army base in Tijuana.

Mexican Soldiers Free 6 In Tijuana

The Mexican Amy says it freed six men in Tijuana early Wednesday morning and detained a man and a woman who allegedly held the group captive. However, the army shared few details about the case.

The Mexican Amy says it freed six men in Tijuana early Wednesday morning and detained a man and a woman who allegedly held the group captive. However, the army shared few details about the case.

At the military base in Tijuana, soldiers showed off a 36-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman and contraband including a gun, 98 bullets and a 10 pound brick of marijuana.

Mexican army officials revealed that an anonymous tip led soldiers to a home where they found the goods, the people and the six captives.

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An army spokesman would not answer questions about who the six people are. He would not confirm if they'd been kidnapped because the investigation is ongoing.

The army also announced it arrested three California men in unrelated incidents. Soldiers detained a 59-year-old Sacramento man with a gun and silencer at a highway checkpoint in Popotla, near Rosarito. An 18 and 23-year-old were stopped near the Algodones border crossing. The suspects allegedly had nine bullets and a magazine.

The Mexican Army is one of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's principle weapons in the war on drugs that he launched three years ago.

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Amy Isackson

Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.

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