( CNN ) -- The body of a crime reporter who had been abducted Thursday in northwest Sonora State was found Friday inside a plastic bag south of Sonora , Notimex reported . Marco Antonio Avila Garcia 's body , which bore signs of torture and carried a message related to drug trafficking , was discovered south of the municipality of Guyamas , the state-run news agency said , citing Jose Larrinaga , a spokesman for the district attorney . Avila Garcia , 39 , covered the public security beat for the daily El Regional de Sonora and Diario de Sonora in the municipality of Cajeme . Three armed , hooded men had kidnapped him from a carwash , Larrinaga said . The National Human Rights Commission condemned the killing . Commission President Raul Plascencia Villanueva called for an official investigation and that those responsible be punished `` and sent a clear message that there will be no tolerance for those who commit crimes against journalists . '' The Committee to Protect Journalists said it had tallied more than 45 journalists who have been killed or disappeared in Mexico since 2006 . `` We call on the Mexican authorities to do everything in their power to locate Marcos Avila Garcia and bring him back to safety , '' said Joel Simon , CPJ 's executive director . Early this month , the dismembered bodies of two newspaper photographers , the girlfriend of one of them and a retired newspaper photographer were found inside plastic bags in Mexico 's eastern state of Veracruz . In its report on a survey of political rights and civil liberties , `` Freedom of the Press 2012 , '' Freedom House described Mexico as `` not free . ''
José Antonio Avila García , 39 , had been abducted Thursday from a car wash . His body was found Friday in a plastic bag . It bore signs of torture and a message relating to drug trafficking .