Phoenix man missing after visiting Mexico - El Paso Times
A 22-year-old Phoenix man has been missing for more than a week after visiting Palomas, Mexico.
A missing-person report was filed across the border with police in Columbus, N.M.
Joel Rodriguez was last seen May 8 apparently voluntarily getting into a car in Palomas, where he and his two sisters had gone to visit family for Mother’s Day, Columbus Police Chief A.I. Vega said on Tuesday.
“It appeared he may have gone with friends,” Vega said. “It’s too early to speculate what happened.”
Palomas, like other towns throughout the state of Chihuahua, has experienced violence in recent years during a war among drug traffickers.
The town’s mayor was abducted and killed last October.
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