SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A San Diego man who took part in a scheme to hold migrants captive and demand ransom payments from their families — leaving at least two migrants missing and presumed dead — pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday.
Isaac Jimenez, 30, coordinated what migrants believed were operations to smuggle them from Mexico into the United States, but were actually plans to kidnap them and hold them against their will in Tijuana, according to the U.S.Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors say that according to Jimenez’s plea agreement, a man and woman were among those abducted, and they were both killed in Mexico “to the best of Jimenez’s knowledge,” despite their families making thousands of dollars in ransom payments…