Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Investigators believe his mother is alive

Reuters

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan kidnappers holding
the mother of Detroit Tigers pitcher Ugueth Urbina
have demanded $3 million in ransom for her release,
but have not contacted her family in at least a month,
a chief detective said on Tuesday.

Nearly five months ago, gunmen broke into the family
home of Venezuelan-born Urbina and took his mother,
Maura Villareal, from the house on the outskirts of
Caracas.

"The trail has not been lost. We sometimes work with
kidnappings that last a year, that have lasted seven
months," Joel Rengifo, head of the national
investigative police anti-kidnapping unit, told
Reuters in an interview.

"A figure of around 6 billion bolivars [$3.1 million]
has been talked about, but we will have to wait for
the next stage of negotiations," he said.


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