Gunmen Abduct Surgeon from Nuevo Leon operating room

Four armed men entered a Monterrey medical center and abducted a plastic surgeon from the operating room.

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The case provoked panic and hysteria among patients and employees who were in the office at the time of the incident.

The incident occurred Thursday afternoon around 13:15 hours in the 'Medical Specialist Building', located at 2532 Hidalgo Street behind the hospital Muguerza, in Monterrey.

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According to preliminary investigations, eight to 10 armed men arrived in two trucks and parked on the south side of Hidalgo Street.

At least four of the gunmen entered the medical building lobby, where they requested information on a 29 year old Mission, Texas court clerk who had recently undergone liposuction.

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According to investigators, after being told the patient had been released from care hours earlier, the gunmen proceeded to the private clinic's surgical suite, located Dr. Felix Perez Rocha and abducted him.

The Nuevo Leon state attorney general, Alejandro Garza y Garza, reported the patient was in fact the 'target' and Federal Preventative Police were called in to locate the woman, who was being driven back to Mission by the doctor's chauffeur, and place her in protective custody.

People close to the investigation, stated the doctor was released in Colonia Hacienda, Apodaca between 18:00 and 19:00 hours Thursday evening.

The source added that the doctor had contacted his family to inform them that he was safe.

Apparently, Perez Rocha, who was abducted while performing surgery, was neither held for ransom nor physically harmed by his abductors.

Garza and Garza said he had contacted the FBI and was informed the American patient does not have any criminal record in the U.S.

At this time neither the doctor nor the patient have filed any type of complaint with the State Attorney General.