Body Of Child Found In Suitcase In Tijuana

SAN DIEGO -- Mexican authorities said they found the mutilated body of a child inside a red suitcase in Tijuana Monday.

Authorities did not confirm whether or not it is the body of 8-year-old David Lizarraga Gomez, who has reported missing on Saturday.

Gomez was last seen at his home in Tijuana, and Mexican police issued an Amber Alert with his picture and what he was last seen wearing.

Mexican police said the body of a boy believed to be Gomez was found in an empty lot in Tijuana late Monday afternoon.

It is unclear how far away the body was found from the boy's home.

The Amber Alert was cancelled and the body was taken to the medical examiner's office.

Later, Mexican officials told 10News the boy's body was found with a plastic bag over his head and appeared to have been strangled. Authorities said one person, a family member, was taken into custody.

NYC Parking Tickets Pile Up on Windshield of Dusty Minivan With Dead Body Inside

NEW YORK - A man's decomposing body inside a minivan covered in parking tickets went undiscovered for weeks because the vehicle's windows were apparently tinted and ticketing officers don't normally search cars, police said Friday.

George Morales, 59, died naturally from heart disease, the medical examiner's office said Friday. The body was found in the backseat Wednesday when a city marshal tried to tow the vehicle from beneath an overpass on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, police said. He was believed to have been living out of the white Chevrolet minivan, which had North Carolina plates.

But his daughter, Jennifer Morales, 29, told the Daily News he had been living with her family in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. She said she last saw him in early May and had called police.

"The window was cracked open. I don't understand how no one noticed him. They just gave him tickets," she told the Daily News.

She said her father was a handyman who suffered from diabetes. But police do not have a missing person's report on record for Morales.

It wasn't clear exactly how many tickets were on the minivan's windshield when the body was discovered. Witnesses had reported a foul odor near the vehicle.

The Morales family plans to cremate the remains. Officials used X-rays taken of him in 2007 at Elmhurst Hospital Center to positively identify him, Jennifer Morales told the newspaper.