The brother-in-law of Alan Pulido has been detained for allegedly masterminding the kidnapping of the Mexican soccer player, authorities in northern Mexico said on 31 May.
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Pulido was found on 30 May by the police, after he punched a kidnapper guarding him, snatched a cell phone and informed the authorities of his location.
The police had already detained a captor, one of at least four involved, on 30 May, from whom they got the information about 29-year-old Osvaldo Velazques Garcia, the husband of Alan Pulido’s cousin.
The police got into a gun battle when they went to confront Garcia at a house in Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, injuring and capturing Garcia in the process.
Garcia allegedly planned the whole kidnapping and belongs to a gang.
Pulido was a member of the Mexican national team that went to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
(With agency inputs.)