An 8-year-old girl from Washington state, who was last seen in October 2018, was recently found in Mexico and returned to the U.S. last month, the FBI says.
An 8-year-old girl from Washington state, who was last seen in October 2018, was recently found in Mexico and returned to the U.S. last month, the FBI said.
Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was kidnapped by her biological mother on Oct. 25, 2018 from a Vancouver, Washington, shopping mall, the FBI said. At the time a missing person poster was released and a $10,000 reward was announced in an effort to find her.Nearly five years after she was reported missing, Aranza was located in Michoacán, Mexico, the FBI’s Seattle office said in a"FBI special agents escorted her back to the U.S.
“For more than four years, the FBI and our partners did not give up on Aranza,” Richard A. Collodi, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Seattle field office said. “Our concern now will be supporting Aranza as she begins her reintegration into the U.S.”Aranza's biological mother was taken into custody in September of 2019 in Puebla, Mexico, the FBI said. The child was not found at that time, but was believed to still be in Mexico.
At the time of the kidnapping, Aranza was in foster care, following complaints that her mother Esmeralda Lopez-Lopez physically abused her, local newspaperLopez-Lopez pleaded guilty in January 2021 to kidnaping, robbery and custodial interference in Clark County Superior Court and was sentenced to 20 months in prison, court records show.
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