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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6178520?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000048Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado Missing Ahead Of Miss World Pageant
AP 11/18/14 11:23 AM ET
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Honduran authorities are holding four people for questioning about the disappearance four days ago of Miss Honduras 2014, Maria Jose Alvarado, police said Monday.
One of the detained, Plutarco Ruiz, is the boyfriend of Alvarado's sister, Sofia, 23, who also went missing with the beauty queen. Another being held is the owner of the business where the women disappeared, said police spokesman Lt. Joseph Coello, though he would not identify him.
"Initially we detained 10, but six have been released," Coello said.
The two women were last seen Thursday in a spa in Santa Barbara, about 240 miles (400 kilometers) west of Tegucigalpa, where they had gone to celebrate Ruiz's birthday. They have not been heard from since. Coello said the case is being treated as a disappearance because there has been no evidence of a kidnapping.
"Witnesses said my daughter left the spa with three men," her mother, Teresa Munoz, told reporters. "I tried repeatedly all night to call their cellphones without any response."
Chief prosecutor Gabriela Carranza said there are leads in the case that they can't discuss so as not to interfere with the investigation.
Alvarado, 19, was crowned Miss Honduras in April and is expected to compete in the Miss World Pageant in London next month. She was supposed to have left for London on Sunday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/family-tearful-plea-abducted-miss-honduras-012603758.htmlFamily make tearful plea for abducted Miss Honduras
Tegucigalpa (AFP) - The family of the reigning Miss Honduras pleaded with police to find their teenage daughter, who was abducted just days before she was set to fly to London for the Miss World contest.
Maria Jose Alvarado, 19, and sister Sofia Trinidad have not been heard from since they vanished Thursday outside the northern city of Santa Barbara, and all signs are that the siblings have been kidnapped.
"Days have gone by and we have not heard a thing. The police have to know something," said a tearful Teresa Munoz, their mother.
Alvarado had been set to travel to London on Wednesday for the Miss World competition.
The sisters disappeared after attending a birthday party for Sofia's boyfriend.
"The authorities just have to do their job better," their big sister Cori Alvarado told local media.
National police are working on several leads in the hunt for Alvarado, who is also part of a modeling reality show on Honduran television.
Honduras, an impoverished Central American country with eight million people, is statistically the most violent nation in the world.