Two teenage siblings who went missing on Monday, April 8 were found safe and sound early the following morning by Chapala police. The sister and brother, aged 14 and 16, had holed up in a local hotel after they and their parents were targeted in a common telephone extortion ploy that authorities label as “psychological kidnapping.” 

A local woman was shot dead on the evening of Friday, April 5 while walking towards her home in an upper Chapala neighborhood. The victim was identified as Raquel Muñoz González, 36.

Four men arrested last weekend in Cancun have been identified as prime suspects in a recent double kidnapping-murder case at lakeside.

In a carbon copy of a telephone scam reported by this newspaper in September 2012, a Chapala area expat’s bank balance is 10,000 pesos lighter after she fell for a hoax perpetrated by a fluent English speaker.

In a crackdown aimed at boosting highway safety during the Easter holiday season, Jalisco traffic police netted hundreds of motorists in the Lake Chapala area for diverse violations of the law.

In February, local Rotarians Barbara and Bill Wilson flew to India to be part of National Immunization Day, when 2.3 million World Health Organization (WHO) workers, Rotarians and local volunteers joined together to administer polio drops to 176 million children.