LA JOYA, Texas, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The FBI is looking into a claim that a U.S. Border Patrol agent was kidnapped by a Mexican crime cartel in a small, Texas border town. Officials said none of the 3,100 agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector have been reported missing, but the investigation is ongoing.
Border patrol officials said the incident began with a series of threatening phone calls to the La Joya Police Department on Thursday. The caller said he was from Mexico but the phone number was from Texas, authorities said.