Prosecutors in Mexico say that authorities are offering famed regional singer Natanael Cano and other artists state protection after a drug cartel in northern Mexico publicly threatened them.

Take, for instance, the situation Mexican rapper and singer Natanael Cano finds himself in.

Three people were charged Thursday in connection with the kidnapping of a man who was kept in a St. Paul building, allegedly in a case tied to a Mexican drug cartel. With information that the man was being held in a Payne Avenue building across the street from the police department’s Eastern District parking lot,

Three people have been charged in connection with a kidnapping in St. Paul earlier this week. Kendra Sue Johnson, 39, faces two counts of kidnapping. Richar Sanchez Mujica, 30, faces two counts of kidnapping.