Posted Aug 16, 2007 at 08:41AM by Ryan A. Listed in: News, Off Topic Tags: FBI
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Be proud: PSP saves man's life - Image 1The following is the sad story of a businessman from Louisville kidnapped, beaten, and tortured by two others in a motel room in West Knox County for nine days. But like they say, there's always a glimmer of home no matter how tragic and that hope for the said businessman was in the form of a PlayStation Portable.

After the local police and FBI agents have solved the case, it became known that the businessman Jose Ignacio Ortega Garcia was another victim of the "Mexican mafia" who have been perpetrating similar crimes against fellow Hispanic citizens in America recently.

Ortega Garcia reportedly suffered both mental and physical torture from Jose Sanchez and Juan Gonzales as the assailants forced him to write numerous checks totaling approximately US$ 27,000. The following is part of the report filed by FBI Agent Buddy Early:


On June 21, Gonzales gave Sanchez a handheld video game that would prove to be Garcia's savior...


Sanchez played the video game virtually all day that day and much of the night. Garcia used the distraction as an opportunity to loosen his bindings. When the exhausted gamer fell asleep, Garcia bolted, running from the room to the hotel office, screaming, "They are trying to kill me..."


Suspect Sanchez's thumb print was recovered from a PlayStation Portable hand-held video game box recovered from victim Garcia's car...


The suspects were nabbed in Houston on a federal complaint filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Stone.


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   by Guy (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » wow

amazing yet stupid.


   Re: Chris (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » Not what I expected...

After reading the first paragraph I thought he was going to use the PSP's web browser and the free wifi that most hotels provide to email for help...That's what I would have done.

   Re: Chris (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » ...

Of course how he would have gotten the PSP from his captor in order to use the email function I don't know. That's where he would have had to get creative.

   Re: Jx1 - 2007-08-16
 » Same as Chris

i thought he used the Wi-Fi

sadly, in mexico. Wifi is not all around town :S just in some places sadly. but least it helped him! :D

buen trabajo wey! :D

   Re: bob (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » ......

wow so the guy just fell asleep playing a game

   Re: GEY (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » ..

So the guy never fell asleep except for when playing the psp?? 0_o

   Re: metalspector (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » ...

For all those wondering the game he was playing was actually GTA liberty city for the psp... Wow I can't beleive that pspupdates misses such vital information, better research better...

   Re: weso548 (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » holy crap

I need to get my hands on whatever game was in the psp.............some day..........it could save my life...........if only we knew..........

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   Re: CheckMate0289 - 2007-08-16
 » TYPICAL QJ!

1. i thought he used the wi-fi to
2. in the original article it says NOTHING about a psp or playstation portable

nice try QJ but this isn't PSP news. they must be desperate :P

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   by lol (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » lol

wow, psp owned the bad guys XD


   Re: Matt (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » GPS attachment sale!!!!!

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   by jblue (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » always good news...

stories like these where an ipod can save a soldier from a bullet or a psp can distract a kidnapper enough for an escape always bring a smile to my face...


   Re: dark_treason (Unregistered) - 2007-08-17
 » lol

I wonder wat fw he has?

   Re: gtauk - 2007-08-18
 » dark_treason

hahahaha the kidnapper probably at custom firmware playing a illegal iso of gta and the FBI found out and he is now in jail for kidnapping and in possesion of a illegal iso
   by Highsight - 2007-08-16
 » You see?

The PSP games are so crappy, they can make ANYONE fall asleep from bordem. God bless boring games. :D


   Re: UNREGISTRED MAN (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » ooooh

true my friend, you're very right yea ;))

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   Re: ~ (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » ~

Funny how the kidnapper was able to play with the psp for that long a time...

Must have been loaded with homebrew

   Re: Chris (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » I agree in many cases but...

There are some games for PSP that are frickin' awesome:
Loco Roco
Crush
...That's all I can think of right now.

   Re: Bob (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » It has more than 2 good games...

There's Breath of Fire III too...

Either he had that, or it has FFVII/IX loaded onto it.

   Re: LuNy6 - 2007-08-16
 » lol

hahaha yes!! lol i totally agree

   Re: .. (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » yup

it was loaded with mexican pr0n

   Re: . (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » .

Yeah Bob, you're right!
Final Fantasy can get anyone to fall asleep if they're bored enough to play such filth.

   Re: Genius (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » games

HAR HAR. You're retarded.
   by Lordy Lordy Lordy (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » man, if it doesn't beat, beating your own kind.

Spicks beating a mexican, wheres the mohow love?


   Re: lol lol lol (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » 80s crap

spicks thats soooooo ooooollllldddd lol

   Re: dark_treason (Unregistered) - 2007-08-17
 » ,.....

medal of honor heroes is the best game for me so far.
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   by julien (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » haha

I have to tell you, that's not very professional for a kidnapper.


   Re: meh (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » ...

I bet Jack thompson will say that the PSP turn people into kidnappers +D
   by Spectre (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » HAHAHAHA

and what has the Zune done so far?

LMAO


   Re: Mister Common Sense - 2007-08-16
 » .

What the iPod does.
It just sells less because people like to hate MS

   Re: M$ hater (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » M$ hater

Oh you must feel so sad MCS, you're "hated" and part of the minority... Get over yourself and crawl out of that M$ pitying hole you wallow in. Seriously

   Re: na2rul - 2007-08-16
 » @mister com sense

Zunes is a counterfeit ipod....just lik many other hardware from M$. just stik to making windows less buggy m$

   Re: . (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » .

No, Zunes are not counterfeit ipods.
Zunes are well made media players for an affordable price, while ipods are overpriced "stylish and easy to use" bull***** which most people are stupid enough to buy.

   Re: advertising (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » Mister No Common Sense

STFU

   Re: mr toasty (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » zune

Zune+iPood
   by DBsummit - 2007-08-16
 » Evidence?

It doesn't say anywhere in that article that it was a PSP.


   Re: ryan (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » @ DBsummit

yes it does....
"Suspect Sanchez's thumb print was recovered from a PlayStation Portable hand-held video game box recovered from victim Garcia's car..."

   Re: DBsummit - 2007-08-16
 » @ ryan

That line isn't in the original source article though
   by MgCrOl (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » damn

its hard to believe, but sometimes happens

   by Markarian (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » Must've been the homebrew...

No unhacked PSP could possibly be interesting enough to play for more than a couple of hours. He must have had Custom Firmware on his and that mafia bastard was playing some addicting Lua pong variant at the time his victim rushed out the door and made him look like an as.s :)

   by SparkyPSP (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » lol:p

He played the God Father or a GTA title, Mafia style:p

Or LocoRoco, then I can understand him that he falls in sleep:p

The PSP is strong in EVERY case, not only the technical side:p


   Re: ahh (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » haha thats true

I would have used that glossy black brick to club that fool into the next dimension.
   by free movies and (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » free games

freepspdownloads.co.nr free games and movies iso cso pass i on

   by hmm (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » hmm

I guess it could save lives.. or get in the way of your mafia crimes...

   by Strangler (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » re

the mexican mafia and the aryan brotherhood for a long time were allies, although there is alot of tension and race riots between whites and southsiders all over cali prisons. If the mexicans combined the nuestra fmailia and the eme (mexican mafia) than they would virtually create one super gang and rule the entire underworld in cal iand texas and arizona.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/aryan_brotherhood/aryan_brotherhood5.html

   by POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » DS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DS hasent saved any1's live and it probably never will DS SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111

   by ur mom (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » lol

i bet u he was playing gans of (london) mexico hahahahahahahah
lol

   by Z (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16
 » DS could save lives

The DS could probably save people from Alzheimers with games like Brain Age & Phoenix Wright where you actually have to think.

As for the psp I could actually play it for a whole day if I could find some decent competition in Portable Ops.


   Re: ehhh (Unregistered) - 2007-08-17
 » DS could not save lives

Alzheimers doesnt make people die, it just makes them forget things

   Re: Dark Ares (Unregistered) - 2007-08-18
 » believe me it does

at the beginning you forget some appointments, but when it gets nastier your body starts forgetting how to use the lungs, heart, kidnes, eccetera. Do you honestly think it does not kill you?
   by had to be a mexican (Unregistered) - 2007-08-16