NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Five alleged members of a powerful Mexican cartel were charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder on Friday in connection to the kidnapping of four Americans, and the killing of two of them, in the border city of Matamoros.
The Attorney General's Office of Tamaulipas announced the charges a day after the Gulf Cartel allegedly took responsibility for the kidnapping. The five men were found tied up near a pickup truck on Thursday morning and a handwritten note was found placed on the windshield of the truck, whose author or authors say they belong to the Gulf Cartel, the dominant organized crime group in this part of Mexico.
"We have decided to deliver those involved and directly responsible," the note said, presumably referring to the five men found tied up at the scene. Police found the men inside the truck with their hands tied with belts, along with the note, according to the police report. Soon after crossing the border,"unidentified gunmen fired upon the passengers in the vehicle," and then put the four Americans in another car and fled, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said.
One of the deceased was also found inside the house, and the second was found outside it, a source close to the investigation told ABC News.
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