Cryptomundo’s Man in Mexico, Red Pill Junkie feeds us the latest news on film producer Ilya Salkind:

Allegedly, he was kidnapped and then was found. TMZ notes that Ms. Salkind wishes to stress that her suspicions have not been confirmed by anyone involved in the formal police investigation.

I’m sorry, but that does not concur with a kidnapping gang’s M.O. If they kidnap you here in Mexico, is because they want money from you –or because someone has already paid them to make you “disappear”– not just to use you as a punching bag.

Check out this article from La Crónica:

It was speculated that he had been kidnapped, but according to investigations, the filmmaker was on a binge.

The hospital deputy director of Health Services State of Morelos, Arturo Torres Alpizar, said the director was admitted to the general hospital “José G. Parres” on Jan. 31 in an ambulance from the Rescue and Medical Emergency Squad (ERUM).

The medical staff found him unconscious, with breath smelling of alcohol and multiple bruises on a street of Tepoztlan, near Cuernavaca. Apparently, Salkind, 63, was beaten during a brawl on a binge, according to authorities.

Now I am the first one to mistrust the claims of the police when it comes to explanations of crimes or incrimination of alleged felons. That said, kidnappers in Mexico are first and foremost businessmen –and a very lucrative business it is, I’m sorry to add.