Posted on 09/12/2009 8:11:51 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A Brownsville man, who called himself Don Juan, and his girlfriend have pleaded guilty to smuggling undocumented immigrants into the United States to prostitute them.
Juan Luis Coronado, 37, aka Juan Hernandez, and Lee Ann Zieger, aka as Lee Ann Motilla, 40, entered the guilty pleas Wednesday, the same day their trial was scheduled to begin.
Coronado pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to import a minor for prostitution purposes.
Zieger, also of Brownsville, pleaded guilty to two counts of harboring aliens for prostitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The two will be sentenced Dec. 8.
Coronado remained in federal custody without bond. Zieger remained out of jail on a $75,000 bond pending sentencing.
The April arrests of Coronado and Zieger were the result of a seven-month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation in which special agents monitored the couple.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Coronado admitted to asking a prostitute who was working for him to smuggle a 14-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico to work for him as a prostitute. He made the request in October.
Coronado also admitted to smuggling and managing two other undocumented immigrants who worked as prostitutes, federal authorities said.
The women who worked as prostitutes were housed at a hotel in Brownsville, where Zieger worked as a manager, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office.
Angela Dodge, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, confirmed that the hotel is the Value Place hotel on Media Luna Road.
Authorities also said that Zieger allowed a room at the hotel to be used for prostitution purposes by giving Coronado a room key labeled "property manager,"
Dodge confirmed that Coronado and Zieger also took women to the South Padre Island to be prostituted at the annual SPI Bikefest held in October.
Zieger admitted to furnishing Coronado with the room, which she knew was being used to prostitute the undocumented immigrants and to picking up the prostitutes after they crossed the border from Mexico, federal authorities said.
Zieger and Coronado each face up to 10 years in federal prison and fines of up to $250,000 each, followed by three years of supervised release.
Paging Acorn . . .
Lemmee guess ... ACORN bought the house for them, right?
ping
Obviously, they didn’t stop by the local ACORN office before they set up shop...
Lets find out if ACORN did their taxes and helped them get a housing loan.
First thing I thought of!
If only they went to ACORN; they’d have gotten plenty of help!
Is this sort of thing the REAL reason that the Liberals and ACORN are for illegals being able to enter the country? Wonder what other illegal activities they match these poor people up with? Drugs, theft, thuggery? Makes one wonder...
Pimp ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
That’s what I was thinking — ACORN! :)
This is one of the darkest, and least talked about, sides to illegal immigration. Lots of young women and girls are tricked or forced into prostitution here by illegal immigrant smugglers every year. Koreans and Chinese women have traditionally been among the most common victims, but Mexican girls are targeted, too.
They are just Doing the Jobs Americans Won’t Do Anymore to quote one of our open border presidents.
I'm beginning to understand Acornspeak.
full service
*snicker*
Did they contact Acorn to help them secure housing? Or maybe the Chief Organizer, Obama himself?
Boy, if Long Legged Mac Daddy ever applied to Obama; it sure does now. LOL
LOL! You are correct about Acornspeak — light bulb has gone off to what they are all about over and above voter fraud. :)
It’ll be real fun when Acorn’s chief lawyer gets put in charge of the Justice Deptmt.
We can then have the government in charge of Big Brothel to go along with Big Auto and Big Health.
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