Overview of Aranza Ochoa-Lopez
Aranza, then 4, was kidnapped on Oct. 25, 2018, from a shopping mall in Vancouver, Washington; she was on a court-supervised visit with her biological, non-custodial mother, Esmeralda Lopez-Lopez. Authorities determined that Lopez-Lopez had taken Aranza to Mexico. The mother was taken into custody in September 2019 in Puebla, Mexico. Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was safely returned to the U.S. in February after being located by local authorities in Michoacán. (Information sourced from abc13.com)