authorities said the search also has been hampered by threats from drug gangs. Ruben Rios, a spokesman for the state prosecutor’s office in Tamaulipas, said the search continues during daylight hours, but is suspended at night because of winds and waves. The Mexican army, federal police and state and local authorities-using speedboats, helicopters and all-terrain vehicles-have been searching since last week, authorities said.
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But she later said she was encouraged after meeting with consulate officials who promised an open door policy to answer family questions. “We’d like to believe good people are down there but there’s so much corruption, it’s hard to have much faith that what you’re being told is the truth,” she said. David Hartley’s sister, Nikki, said it’s hard to know what’s happening across the border. In the Hartleys’ native Colorado on Friday, about 100 friends, relatives and supporters rallied outside the Mexican consulate in Denver. The foreign ministry’s statement said the federal attorney general’s office has opened an investigation based on Tiffany Hartley’s testimony to Mexican consulate officials in McAllen, Texas, where she lives. Pirates have robbed boaters and fisherman on the Mexican side, prompting warnings by Texas state officials, but Hartley’s death would mark the first violent fatality on the lake. “I’m not at liberty to discuss it at this time, but it does indicate that she had nothing to do with” David Hartley’s death.įalcon Lake is a dammed section of the Rio Grande, 25 miles long and 3 miles across.
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The possibility the witness is not telling the truth “is always there, but the probability is very, very, low,” he said.Įvidence corroborating Tiffany Hartley’s story includes a tiny smear of blood on her life vest, Gonzalez said. “Our information is indicating that the witness is reliable, the witness is truthful,” he said. Gonzalez said the investigation so far has indicated Tiffany Hartley is telling the truth.
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If you have a general idea of where that is, why is the body not floating? Why is there not a Jet Ski?”Ĭuellar went on to say “the bad guys could look at the Jet Ski as an asset that they could take” and that Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez “does have an eyewitness, a person that did see her coming in with a boat chasing her, so we have to rely on law enforcement officials.” “My question is, OK if he had a vest, why is the body not floating? We asked the Coast Guard, if he had a Jet Ski, would that Jet Ski be floating somewhere around? Our Mexican friends have said they’ve been searching around, they’ve even used a helicopter. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu