Mexican football player's relative ordered kidnapping: official

AFP
Mexican football player's relative ordered kidnapping: official
Mexican football player's relative ordered kidnapping: official

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexican authorities arrested on Tuesday a man married to a cousin of football star Alan Pulido, accusing the suspect of ordering the player’s high-profile kidnapping last weekend.

Osvaldo Velazquez Garcia, 29, was wounded and detained in a house in the northeastern city of Ciudad Victoria after a shootout with federal police, said Tamaulipas state prosecutor Ismael Quintanilla.

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