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Fort Myers, Florida -- Bryan Dos Santos Gomes disappeared Dec. 1 when a woman took him from his mother at knifepoint. For most of the time he has been missing, police have described the suspect as a woman who so desperately wanted a child of her own she had planned a kidnapping.

But given new leads in the case, that’s no longer likely, Fort Myers Police Chief Hilton Daniels said at a press conference Saturday afternoon.

Bryan’s parents, both immigrants from Brazil, weren’t keeping up with payments to the smugglers who brought them to this country, Daniels said. He didn’t know the amount of the family’s debt, nor did he know who the smugglers might be, but he said debt was the likely motive in the kidnapping.

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