A band of five illegal aliens from Central and South America were nabbed by officials in Missouri early Monday morning. The illegal aliens had allegedly kidnapped the young girl from Indiana and were picked up by the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol received a report around 2 a.m. on June 17 that a 14-year-old girl was missing in Cass County, Indiana. Court documents revealed that her father saw her enter a vehicle, later identified as a black Dodge Durango, before alerting authorities.
Cass County Sheriff’s deputies notified Missouri state troopers that the missing girl’s phone was pinging from a black Dodge Durango with Texas license plates on US 36 near Hannibal, Missouri. A short while later, a Missouri state trooper saw an SUV that fit the description driving on US 36 and pulled it over. The girl was found in the back of the SUV and identified herself as the missing teen. No evidence of sexual assault was found.
All five illegal aliens in the vehicle, identified as Marlon Aguilar, 44, of Honduras; Arturo Eustaquio, 41, of Mexico; Noe Guzman Hernandez, 24, of Mexico; Daniel Ruiz Lopez, 19, of Mexico; and Carlos Funez, 56, of Honduras, were apprehended and booked into the Macon County Jail. According to officials, they are being held with no bail on a charge of felony kidnapping.
Reportedly, the five men are in the United States illegally. In response, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed a detainer on all five men who are being held without bail.