Marina pleaded with her attackers and persuaded them to let her sit on the floor with her daughter between her legs. They blindfolded the woman, gagged her and tied her hands and legs in front of her. Then the masked men did the same to the 4-year-old girl.
Next thing I know, I hear him coming and he gets off the car, Marina Morfin said about her husband. And thats when he opens the door and yells out loud, What the (expletive)?
A struggle ensued, with the alleged Zetas overpowering Armando Morfin.
They grabbed the familys cell phones and car keys before leaving Marina Morfin with some final words.
He tells me not to yell, not to cry and not to call the cops that my husband would come back in a half hour to untie me. And thats it. He never came back. I had to untie myself, she said as she began to break down.
The gunmen drove away with her husband in the familys minivan. An irrigation worker found the torched vehicle in a field near La Blanca about 30 minutes before the kidnapping was reported to authorities.
Armando Morfin has yet to be seen.
We havent heard anything, his wife said. We dont know where hes at. I dont know what happened to him or anything.
