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(Trends Wide) — Monica De León Barba, a US citizen who was kidnapped last November while walking home in Mexico, returned to the United States after her captors released her, according to FBI authorities in San Francisco.
“The FBI is pleased to announce that Monica De León Barba is safe and on her way to the US, where she will be reunited with her family and her dog after spending eight months in captivity,” the FBI said in a Twitter message. this Saturday.
De León Barba was released by her captors on Friday night, according to the FBI.
She was kidnapped in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico, in November as she was returning home from work with her dog, according to the update.
The FBI previously said it was offering up to $40,000 for information leading to locating De León Barba. The reward announcement in March was the FBI’s first public acknowledgment that it was investigating the kidnapping.
Authorities have made no arrests and continue to investigate the identity of the captors, the FBI reported in a social media post Saturday.
“The FBI investigation is far from over, but now we can work on this case knowing that an innocent victim was reunited with his family,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp said in a statement posted on Twitter.
