Unsolved Kidnapping Of Baby Boy Prompts FBI To Offer $20,000 Reward

LOS ANGELES, CA — Twenty years after a baby from Los Angeles was kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico City, the FBI offered a $20,000 reward for his return Friday.

Joshua Keshaba Sierra Garcia, who was kidnapped and his 14-year-old babysitter murdered as his family traveled to Mexico for his christening in 2003, would be 21-years-old today, according to the FBI.

“While many investigative steps have been taken to find Joshua over the years in both the United States and in Mexico, we have not given up hope that we can find him and determine what happened to him twenty years ago,” said Donald Alway, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “I’m hopeful that the reward offer, a new photograph, as well additional investigative techniques, will bring someone forward with that piece of information that will lead to Joshua and help us solve this case for his family.”

Authorities released an age-enhanced rending of what he might look like now.

Joshua was last seen at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 12, 2003. He has black hair and brown eyes and was just three feet tall and weighing between 25-28 pounds at the time of his disappearance. He was wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue shorts and sandals and has pierced ears.

His family tried to get him back after he was taken.

After a series of ransom calls, a money drop resulted in the arrest of one kidnapper by Mexican law enforcement authorities, according to the FBI. That kidnapper is serving a lengthy prison sentence in Mexico. However, Joshua has never been found.

This investigation is being conducted by the FBI and Mexican law enforcement
authorities. Anyone with information concerning the case, is urged to contact the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office at (310) 477-6565. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to tips.fbi.gov.