 One person had to be rescued from their home, but Haglund says no one was killed or seriously injured. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Lippman in St. Louis. Some people have likened timeshares to a racket, given the difficulty of sometimes getting out of them. And in Mexico, it seems that is literally the case. The U.S. announcing it has imposed sanctions on three Mexican accounts and four firms, allegedly linked to a timeshare fraud ring operated by a drug cartel.