A reward is offered in the August 2003 kidnapping of a toddler who disappeared on a visit to Mexico City with relatives for a baptism.
"While many investigative steps have been taken to find Joshua over the years in both the United States and in Mexico, we have not given up hope that we can find him and determine what happened to him 20 years ago," said Donald Always, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.
At the time of the kidnapping, Garcia was in the custody of relatives with whom he traveled to Mexico City for a baptism, the FBI said. "During the kidnapping, Joshua's 14-year-old babysitter was murdered," the FBI said in a statement."After a series of ransom calls, a money drop resulted in the arrest of one kidnapper by Mexican law enforcement authorities who is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence in Mexico. Joshua has never been found."of what he might look like today.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more.
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