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Posted on 11/15/2025 9:19:11 AM PST by Twotone
Police found a half-naked woman handcuffed in a Texas backyard who had been tortured for a considerable period of time by five people she knew for years, authorities said.
The Austin Police Department said in a statement that officers conducted a welfare check just after 9 a.m. Oct. 30 after a report regarding a "woman in distress who appeared to be restrained and calling for help."
Police said they discovered a woman outside a home who was "handcuffed to a piece of exercise equipment."
"The woman showed signs of physical distress and had visible injuries consistent with prolonged restraint," the press release read. "The woman told officers she had been held at the residence for several months and was not allowed to leave."
Police said they had to cut through the "heavy metal links" to release the woman who soon was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Officers discovered three children inside the house who were "safely removed and placed in the care of Child Protective Services for safety and support."
Police arrested five people from the residence and charged them with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, injury to elderly or disabled, and unlawful restraint.
The suspects were identified as 51-year-old Michelle Garcia, 32-year-old Mache Carney, 30-year-old Juan Pablo Castro, 21-year-old Crystal Garcia, and 21-year-old Maynard Lefevers.
The Austin American-Statesman said it obtained the arrest affidavit, which indicated the woman told police she was friends with one of the females who lived in the house and visited often — but "one day they decided they didn't like her anymore and no longer allowed her to leave."
The suspects said they had known the woman for years, the affidavit stated.
Carney told police they started restraining the woman to stop her from stealing from neighbors, the affidavit said.
Several of the suspects claimed the woman suffers from mental health issues, according to the affidavit.
Crystal Garcia told investigators that the woman was only “50/50” capable of consent, the affidavit stated.
Citing the affidavit, KVUE-TV reported that the woman had been at the home since July and had been "handcuffed inside and outside the house for months."
Castro — the husband of Carney — admitted to purchasing the handcuffs, according to the affidavit.
According to the affidavit, the woman told detectives a male and a female repeatedly shot her with a BB gun and that she was beaten with a baseball bat and fed only once a day.
Michelle Garcia told investigators they fed the woman one meal a day because she had gotten "chunky," according to the arrest affidavit. However, police noted that the woman appeared malnourished when she was found.
Police said the woman told them she was punished if she tried to leave and had open wounds, cuts, swollen wrists, missing flesh from her hands and feet, extensive scarring all over her body from BB gunshots, and a battered face, the American-Statesman reported, citing the affidavit.
KVUE, citing law enforcement, reported that the woman had "hundreds of small BB scars across her body and a swollen shut right eye from a pellet injury."
The affidavit said the suspects confessed to shooting the woman with BB guns. Castro told police he bought an electric rifle-style BB gun "to shoot her" because he didn't want to touch the woman.
According to the arrest affidavit, Castro told authorities he would come home from work, grab the BB gun from his closet, and "chase her around the yard," firing pellets.
"I [expletive] hate her," Castro told investigators when asked why he shot the victim, the affidavit stated.
A 4-year-old child who lived at the home told a specialist during a forensic interview that Castro — his father — shot the woman when she was "bad," according to the affidavit. The child said he could hear the woman outside screaming, according to the affidavit.
The woman told investigators she "got in trouble" the night before police found her because her pants fell down, according to the affidavit.
The American-Statesman said as "punishment," a number of suspects "allegedly shot her repeatedly with a BB gun," secured her in the backyard with handcuffs, then left her there "overnight without pants or food as temperatures dipped into the 40s." The paper, citing police, added that the woman said she "begged and cried to be released, but was threatened with more and worse violence" if she kept pleading.
The investigation is ongoing, and those with information about the case are urged to contact the Austin Police Department’s Human Trafficking Unit at 512-974-4786 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at austincrimestoppers.org or 512-472-8477.
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3rd world countries have all sorts of retarded problems that don’t need to exist. People die of carelessness or neglect. People walk across streets and then get hit by cars. They get in car accidents because they’re on their phones. They get dissed and start shooting. Viva America
They are not sending their best.
Keep Austin Weird, yeah!
There is so much detail in this it almost seems made up.
Immigration status unknown. I suspect several illegals. This is the same mentality that drug cartels possess. It’s a cultural thing.
Gotta wonder what gang some of them belong to. Suck mfers need to be tortured.
Why are we learning about this 12 days after? Doesn’t our news media have to tell us about these things? I remember when I was a kid living in Germany in the 60’s reading about a 10 year old girl being pregnant. I don’t know where or anything else about that story but I remember the headline. In those days some things were newsworthy no matter where they took place. This story is very unusual on the grand scheme but it is possibly being ignored because either it perpetuates a stereotype that “they” don’t want perpetuated, or things like this are so common that they just can’t cover them all.
“”Police arrested five people from the residence and charged them with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, injury to elderly or disabled, and unlawful restraint.””
Arrested and I hope locked up in five different cells and the keys to each have been lost!! Can their punishment be the same as they carried out on the poor woman? Did she not have family?
We’re probably all assuming because it’s TX, they are from Mexico and I would say possibly but could be from ANY of the Central American countries.
Sanctuary city who has also done away with much of the police force. Now it’s made up of left wing, cross dressing trannies. I’m surprised the police didn’t take a shot with the BB gun. Austin’s motto is “Keep Austin Weird”. And they’re living up to that!
Tortured.
My God...that is by far the weirdest story today. What a bunch of nice people.
Just remember “All Cultures Are Equal”.
Druggies most likely.
Or, they could all be Texans; there are a huge number of Hispanics in Texas. And apparently, there are an untold number of evil, perverted people around us, just waiting to be discovered.
Sounds like something that allot of people in New York City would pay good money for. Just saying.
This is brutal.
Really? What country might suspects Mache Carney and Maynard Lefevers be illegally here from?
A whole crew of low lifes, and on these occasions you feel like saying, do unto them as they did to others.
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