Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned three people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. Maria Elena Andrade Ram\u00edrez, the state\u2019s chief prosecutor, would not say whether the three people questioned were considered possible suspects or witnesses in the case. She said only that some were tied directly to the case, and others indirectly.<\/p>\n
But Andrade Ram\u00edrez said evidence found along with the abandoned tents was somehow linked to the three. The three foreigners were believed to have been surfing and camping along the Baja coast near the coastal city of Ensenada but did not show up at their planned accommodations over the weekend. \u201cA working team (of investigators) is at the site where they were last seen, where tents and other evidence was found that could be linked to these three people we have under investigation,\u201d Andrade Ram\u00edrez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a lot of important information that we can\u2019t make public.\u201d \u201cWe do not know what condition they are in,\u201d she added. While drug cartels are active in the area, she said \u201call lines of investigation are open at this time. We cannot rule anything out until we find them.\u201d On Wednesday, the missing Australians\u2019 mother, Debra Robinson, posted on a local community Facebook page an appeal for helping in finding her sons, Jake and Callum. Robinson said her son had not been heard from since Saturday April 27. They had booked accommodations in the nearby city of Rosarito, Baja California.<\/p>\n
Robinson said one of her sons, Callum, is diabetic. She also mentioned that the American who was with them was named Jack Carter Rhoad, but the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City did not immediately confirm that. The U.S. State Department said it was aware of reports a U.S. citizen missing in Baja, but gave no further details. Andrade Ram\u00edrez said her office was in contact with Australian and U.S. officials. But she suggested that the time that had passed might make it harder to find them.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, it wasn\u2019t until the last few days that they were reported missing. So, that meant that important hours or time was lost,\u201d she said. In 2015, two Australian surfers, Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas, were killed in western Sinaloa state, across the Gulf of California \u2013 also known as the Sea of Cortez- from the Baja peninsula. Authorities say they were victims of highway bandits. Three suspects were arrested in that case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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