KXO RADIO - Rescuers find several, but not the one they are looking for

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Todays is : Thursday, 20 November 2008

Written by George Gale
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
(A Mexican Rescue team finds a Human Smuggler)….The team has been scouring the desert west of Mexicali looking for a 20 year old man since Sunday. Juan Antonio Herrera of Mexicali had gone riding motorcycles in the Laguna Salada over the weekend when he disappeared. He has not been seen since Sunday. The rescue team looking for the 20 year old has spread their search out. This week they did not find Herrera, but they did find a group of 25 people on the Mexican side of Mount Signal. Officials say the group was dehydrated from the heat and humidity. The rescuers called Mexicali police. They arrested Alejandro Quintero Gonzalez. He was charged with Human Smuggling. The potential illegal immigrants were treated for their dehydration. The rescue team says they also found a couple wandering lost in the desert. Ariel Betencourt and Jose Manuel Rivera Mendiola, both 28 year old, were found near the international border, but it is not known if they intending to cross illegally or just lost. The State Civil Protection Brigade in Baja California did not say where the couple was from.