"Noé Zavaleta, a journalist from Veracruz [Mexico] was abducted around 1:00 a.m. this Wednesday [Dec. 4] in Guadalajara, but he was released three hours later when confusion about his identity was clarified, reported journalist Ricardo Ravelo. [...]
Ricardo Ravelo reported around 6:00 a.m. this Wednesday that Noé Zavaleta was released after the criminal group that abducted him realized that they confused him with another person.
'Noé Zavaleta has just been released. Everything indicates that people from the CJNG confused him and kept him detained since 1:00 in the morning. He was beaten and threatened. In the end the criminals said: this is not the one we are looking for. And they let him go,' [Ravelo said]."
