Click to Patricio County District Attorney Margie Silva said during a recent news conference, according to the TV station. Silva added that investigators “never gave up” in the search for Emerald. Her father, Neftaly Garcia , had been accused of kidnapping her and fleeing south of the border, to La Angostura in Chiapas, Mexico, according to authorities. He is facing kidnapping charges and could face additional federal offenses, according to police, KRIS 6 News reported. Around the time he reportedly abducted his daughter, the U.S. Marshals Service said that “police took two people into custody in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving the child’s mother, Angela Buitrago-Paredes .” Buitrago-Paredes reported her daughter as missing after Neftaly failed to bring her back to her as part of a custody exchange, according to authorities. Under a custody arrangement, according to police, Garcia had custody of his daughter while her mother was in the U.S. “on a visa,” KRIS 6 News reported. “There was custody paperwork between the two, and after reviewing that paperwork, I found that one of the restrictions was that no party
