Mexico Posts Million Peso Reward for Information on the Drug Cartels' IT Guy Brian Anderson - Motherboard
go to original April 3, 2015

Felipe García in 2012 (Tanya Elizabeth Gonzalez Vaya)

The Tamaulipas state government has posted cash rewards of $1,000,000 ($65,000 USD) for information regarding 15 disappeared people in Northeastern Mexico, including a telecommunications specialist, Motherboard has learned.

The official announcement comes on the heels of a Motherboard investigation into the disappearance of Felipe de Jesús Peréz García, an architect who vanished two years ago near Reynosa, a Texas-Mexico bordertown, while scouting cell tower installation cites for a regional telco. According to El Universal, the biggest newspaper in Mexico, it was released to the public on March 19, exactly two years to the day García disappeared. It’s unclear if or when the report, dated February 17, was to be made public.

Neither the attorney general of Tamaulipas nor the state anti-kidnapping could not be reached for comment on when and why the missing persons rewards were posted.

None of the other 14 missing persons listed on the reward notice, as far as we can tell, fit a similar profile as Felipe - or any of the nearly 40 information technology types who’ve disappeared in the region since 2008, allegedly kidnapped by cartels and forced to construct and service the narcos’ hidden, sprawling radio networks.

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