Jose Julian Beltran-Sedano was 20 and working on his vehicle in front of his Glendale, Arizona home on August 12, 2006, when four Hispanic males with bandannas over their faces approached. Wearing dark shirts and camouflage pants, the men assaulted him—his shirt was torn off and he may have suffered head and facial injuries—then forced him into his own purple 1999 Ford Expedition and drove away. Later that day the vehicle was found abandoned at 8900 S. 14th St. in Phoenix; the interior had been deliberately set on fire. At the time he had been in the process of buying the SUV from its registered owner.

Beltran-Sedano is described as Hispanic, with black hair, brown eyes and a double ear piercing. He also used the names Ricardo Bracamontes Villalba and Fernando Rodriguez Trujillo. The case is treated as an endangered missing person matter and foul play is suspected; no arrests have been made.

Did anyone in Glendale or Phoenix see the purple 1999 Ford Expedition that afternoon or know anyone who recognized any of the assailants or the aliases Beltran-Sedano used?