The FBI was offering a reward of up to $40,000 for information leading to the recovery of Monica de Leon Barba, a Bay Area woman who was kidnapped in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico, while walking home from work with her dog in November.
The agency was hoping Thursday's reward offer in Mexico would generate leads in the case that has gone cold as concerns have mounted as the days and months have gone by.
A flyer posted on a Facebook page dedicated to locating the 29-year-old says she was reportedly forced into a van. Since that time, her family has grown frustrated with local authorities in Tepatitlán. "We would ask Mexican officials to also place the importance that this case merits into finding my sister who was abducted in plain daylight, blocks from a national guard station," her brother, Gustavo, said in a family statement."I am actively engaged in the case and in daily contact with the family and various federal agencies," Speier said in a statement to KPIX."It is imperative that we do everything to find Monica.
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