The wife of the victim in this case who was with him as he was kidnapped and a busdriver who saw it happen added their testimonies today.

According to testimony, Sergio Saucedo, who worked for La Linea drug cartel, his wife and two children came home in the afternoon of September 3, 2009 to find three men with pistols in their home.

The men took the children upstairs and after taping their parent's wrists with duct tape, took Sergio outside, a gunshot was heard, and Sergio was forced into a getaway car.

At about that time a school bus drove by, stopping within a block of the kidnapping, even letting two kids off the bus when the driver noticed the crime, hurried the kids back onto the bus and drove away.

That bus driver appeared in court today and identified Caesar Obregon Reyes, a Juarez native and one of the defendants, as one of the men she saw forcing Saucedo into the getaway car.

"Your certain that this man is the man you saw?" The defense for Reyes asked the bus driver, pointing to Reyes. "Yes" she replied.

So far no testimony or evidence against Tornillo, Texas native Rafael Vega. Many members of his family again in court today standing by him.

"He was living with us at the time," Vega's cousin Yannuen Gerrero said, "we said did you do it and he said no."

Vega is one of three initially accussed in the kidnapping and murder case, but only two are standing trial.

The third, Juarez native Omar Ogregon-Ortiz, is part of the court's records of the case until last Friday when the record shows he was set to make a plea.

Whether he pleaded guilty is unclear because deocuments after last Friday's date concerning Ortiz are sealed.

The other two are charged with five felony accounts, including "kidanpping" and "conspiracy to kidnap, kill or maim in a foreign country."

The trial continues tomorrow at 9 am at the Federal Courthouse in downtown El Paso.

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