Feb 12, 2009 ... In broad daylight one January afternoon, on a street of ranch-style houses with  kidney-shaped swimming pools, Juan Francisco Perez-Torres was kidnapped in  front of his wife, daughter and three neighbors. FOR THE RECORD: Kidnapping  capital: A photo caption in Thursday's Section A with an article on ...
Aug 12, 2010 ... Seized: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital. 11 ... She was  one of about a dozen other immigrants who had hired coyotes to smuggle them  into the United States in May. ... An anonymous caller had tipped off Phoenix  police about the home where the illegal immigrants were held. The tip ...
Jul 25, 2013 ... Almost every night, Phoenix police will get one or more calls with variations of the  same story, 'My wife is being held in a Phoenix drop house and they say they will  torture and kill her if we don't pay them thousands of dollars.'" Police then used  Phoenix's infamous designation as a "kidnapping capital" to get ...
Feb 11, 2009 ... In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave,  Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more  incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370  cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too ...
Regardless of whether or not it can be considered the Kidnapping Capital of the  U.S.A., Phoenix has become a hub for illicit activity, with the state serving as the  ... trade centers on the East Coast (90% of the drugs smuggled through Arizona  travel out of state, with Chicago quickly becoming one of the largest trading hubs. ) ...
Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world.