Corpus Christi, TX. — The U.S. Marshals Service announced Jan. 20 that a child missing for more than four years has been safely recovered in Mexico and reunited with family in Corpus Christi following an extensive international investigation.
According to the agency, the investigation began after Neftaly Garcia kidnapped his daughter and fled to the La Angostura region of Chiapas, Mexico. Around the same time, authorities took two individuals into custody in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving the child’s mother, Angela Buitrago-Paredes.
Buitrago-Paredes reported her daughter missing days later when Garcia failed to return the child under their shared custody arrangement…