Neighborhood Gang Suspected in Mexico City Mass Daylight Kidnapping E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press
go to original June 8, 2013

Friends and family hold signs asking for justice for the persons they believe were abducted in broad daylight, outside the office of chief prosecutor Rodolfo Rios, in Mexico City. (AP/Ivan Pierre Aguirre)

The mysterious disappearance of 12 people from a Mexico City after-hours bar nearly two weeks ago was the work of a local gang, authorities said, with the possible motive being a dispute between rival groups over drug dealing.

There has been no word of the 12 since they vanished in broad daylight on May 26 just a block from Mexico City's leafy Paseo de Reforma. City Prosecutor Rodolfo Rios showed a surveillance videotape to reporters late Friday that disputes witness' accounts that the missing people were taken by masked commandos with large guns and SUVs.

The videotape shows several compact cars pulling up, and people being herded in just a couple at a time. The men taking them are in civilian clothes, and there are no signs of weapons or force, explaining why so many people could disappear without detection in the middle of a busy Sunday. There was both a mass bike ride and 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) foot race less than a block away when they were seen leaving the bar about 11 a.m.

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