United States v. Maribel Laboy, A/K/A Jennifer Morales, Mary Torres

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict entered by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Appellant Maribel Laboy (“Laboy”) was found guilty of kidnapping and transportation in interstate commerce of a minor unlawfully seized and carried away in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201.

I. BACKGROUND

On September 1, 1987, Raymond Degro took appellant Maribel Laboy to a travel agency in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she picked up airline tickets for one adult and one infant to New York, New York. Later that day, he drove Laboy to a housing project in Villalba,…