The Police Service yesterday released a photograph of kidnapped Chinese restaurant owner Xue Hua Shan appealing to the public for assistance in finding her. A release from the Police Service said anyone with information can call 555, 800-TIPS or contact the nearest police station. Investigating officers, up to late yesterday, were continuing their search for the missing woman. Officers of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad said they searched several parts of Trinidad in an attempt to find Shan. They also are attempting to make contact with Shan's mother who lives in China. Her relatives told police the woman's mother received a text message last week Wednesday saying her daughter had been released. The message, police said, was sent in a Chinese dialect to Shan's mother. Police said Shan's friend from China also was questioned by officers of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad. He has since returned to China.
The lawmen searched Carapo, St Helena, Piarco, Mausica and the compound of a Chinese restaurant.
Police said there had been no other calls or texts from her captors demanding the money or more cash.
A text message was sent to family members who owned a shop at Broadway, Port-of-Spain, after she was abducted. A $4 million ransom demand was made for her safe release. Shan, 31, was reported abducted outside her Seventh Street, Barataria, home on April 14. She is the owner of Happy Gardens Restaurant, St Helena Main Road. Owner of the Ellerslie Plaza's China Palace Restaurant, Anthony Chin, was a suspect in Shan's kidnapping, police said. Chin , 61, of Hillsborough, Maraval, was killed outside his restaurant on April 24.