Puente News Collaborative ( Puente News Collaborative, a bi-national partnership of news organizations in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.) By Gabriela Minjares/La Verdad CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – María, after making a trip of about 3,000 kilometers to get to this border to cross over to the United States, found her journey cut short by a band of alleged police officers from Ciudad Juárez. María, a 28-year-old woman from Guatemala, states that agents from a public security company turned her over to an organized crime group who held her hostage, along with her 1-year-old daughter and another 65 migrants, for about 40 days.