Lone female officer in small Mexican border town is kidnapped

A while back, we told you about Erika Gandara, the lone police officer patrolling the streets of Guadalupe, just southeast of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

The El Paso Times reported over the weekend that Gandara has been kidnapped.

She took over as the small farming area's sole police officer in June 2009, when another officer was shot dead. It was the same week Gandara joined the force as a dispatcher. Over time, she became the only member of the force.

Gandara had told the Times in an earlier interview that she did not fear for her life and had not received threats.

Guadalupe is about two miles across the U.S. border from Tornillo, Texas, near El Paso.

-- Lance Murray

Comments

[Notch Johnson]

Good luck to her, she's a hero. Sad to say, but I saw this coming.

[terri]

i hope for the safe return of this brave young woman. god be with her and her family. my prayers will go out to them.

[Hershey]

I am so sad. I thought she was a hero too. I pray she turns up safely.

[Tellingitlikeitis]

I guess because we don't have the ability to get oil from them, we should not send troops over there to "protect" those citizens like elsewhere such as Iraq.

[Tellingitlikeitis]

The drug cartels in mexico are so out of hand, someone is going to have to step in and send m,ilitary help to this country.