Mexican law enforcement agents are investigating the possibility that members of a drug cartel kidnapped four Americans last Friday thinking that they were encroaching on their turf.
In view of the prior convictions, "it cannot be ruled out that the attack against could be directly linked to drug trafficking operations," which their assailants believed the Americans could be carrying out, the document said.
Brown was convicted twice in 2015 for possessing small amounts of marijuana or concentrated cannabis, records show. Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios told the same news conference the four were likely mistaken for somebody else, while stressing that other lines of investigation remained open.
The document seen by Reuters stated that a faction of the Gulf Cartel had an "iron grip" on illegal activities in the area, and pointed to members of the group as likely perpetrators of the kidnapping on the basis of intelligence gathered.
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