document: 2 convicted of kidnapping slain US drug trafficker EL PASO , Texas -LRB- AP -RRB- - A jury on Friday convicted two men of kidnapping an American drug trafficker from his home near El Paso two years ago , five days before he turned up dead with his hands chopped off in a city across the border in Mexico . The West Texas Federal Court jury found Cesar Obregon-Reyes and Rafael Vega guilty of abducting Sergio Saucedo from his home on Sept. 3 , 2009 . They could be sent to prison for life when they are sentenced in July . Attorneys for both men said they would appeal . Prosecutors say Obregon-Reyes , Vega and a third man , Obregon-Ortiz , kidnapped Saucedo under orders of a Mexican drug cartel in what was a rare case of drug war violence spilling into the U.S. Saucedo 's body was found on an unpaved street in Juarez , across the border from El Paso . Obregon-Ortiz , who gave incriminating testimony about the other two men after his arrest , pleaded guilty to undisclosed charges last week and will be sentenced separately , court documents indicate . Obregon-Reyes and Vega also were convicted of three other counts Friday , including conspiracy to kidnap and kill in a foreign country , and interstate and foreign travel in aid of racketeering . '' `` We are going to appeal , I think we have pretty good chance there , '' '' Vega 's attorney , Robert J. Perez , said after the hearing . Friends and relatives of the defendants wept as they listened to the jury 's verdict . '' `` Before this , I wanted to become a prosecutor . I wanted to work with the system . Now I 'll become a defense attorney to defend innocent people like my cousin '' '' , Vega 's cousin , Maria Biddlestone , said after the hearing . During the trial , a bus driver testified that Obregon-Reyes was among a group of men she saw shoving another man into a sport utility vehicle . Two other witnesses testified that they heard Vega bragging at a party about the abduction and the money , car and drugs he received as payment . Prosecutors also presented an undercover recording in which the defendants were heard discussing a defense strategy and how Obregon-Ortiz had wronged them by talking to detectives . Defense attorneys argued that Saucedo 's wife - who admitted on the witness stand that her husband was a drug trafficker - could not identify the kidnappers , and that it was therefore unlikely that the bus driver could do so after allegedly seeing the abduction for less than 10 seconds . A defense witness also testified that they never went to the party where Vega allegedly bragged about the abduction . They also cited excerpts from the recording in which Obregon-Reyes is heard saying that , when questioned by detectives about the kidnapping , he had told them he did n't do it . A convicted drug trafficker , testifying under an assumed name , said he and Saucedo had been distributing drugs in the U.S. for more than 16 years and that the owners of a 670-pound -LRB- 300-kilogram -RRB- marijuana shipment that was intercepted at a Border Patrol checkpoint east of El Paso were angry at Saucedo for lying to them about the date it was seized .
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