Urbina's mother rescued
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan police stormed a mountain camp and
rescued Tigers pitcher Ugueth Urbina's mother from kidnappers Friday after
five months in captivity. The raid left at least one of her abductors dead,
authorities said.
Officers from a special anti-kidnapping unit rescued the 54-year-old Maura
Villarreal from a remote mountainous area in the southern state of Bolivar,
said Joel Rengifo, the chief officer in the division.
"It was a clean and well-planned operation," said Rengifo, who added that
Villarreal was unharmed.
Urbina's mother, who had been missing since she was kidnapped from her home
Sept. 1, told reporters the experience was "unexpected -- I never thought
they would kidnap me."
"You can't say they treated me either well or poorly. The most hurtful thing
was having to hear them saying that my son didn't love me because he didn't
pay," Villarreal said.
A message seeking comment was left late Friday night with the Tigers.
Rengifo said the kidnappers had demanded $6 million in ransom, but that the
family didn't pay. He said the rescue operation began early Friday and lasted
eight hours in an area near the Guaniamo River, some 340 miles southwest of
Caracas.
Thirty officers carried out the raid, Rengifo said. "We had to take a boat to
arrive on the river by surprise."
He said Villarreal was being held at an abandoned tourist camp called "Las
Nieves," or the snows. The kidnappers, after seeing the police, were mostly
able to flee in heavy exchanges of gunfire, Rengifo said. One of the
abductors was killed.
Weapons and explosives were found at the site.
Villarreal was kidnapped from the town of Ocumare del Tuy in the southeastern
outskirts of Caracas, where her home stands out as the most expensive on the
block, fringed with trees and adjacent to the family's construction supply
business. Police say witnesses told them the men who came for Urbina's mother
more than five months ago were wearing police uniforms.
Urbina isn't the only Major Leaguer to have been a victim of crime in
Venezuela. Rangers outfielder Richard Hidalgo was shot in the left forearm
during a 2002 carjacking attempt.
Crime has touched Urbina's family before. His father, Juan, died a decade ago
while resisting a robbery attempt in Caracas.
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