Posted on 03/10/2008 7:51:30 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Five people have been taken into custody after police said broke up a prostitution ring in the Twin Cities. Officials confirmed raids conducted in Bloomington and Minneapolis last week, were connected to a yearlong prostitution investigation.
In Bloomington, a home in a quiet neighborhood across the street from Thomas Jefferson High School was one of the locations of the raid. State and federal authorities said the home served as a brothel, where men bought sex and the women were kept under watch.
Police said the ringleaders sold sex with women they picked up at the airport.
During 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS’ investigation, we found a man on the front steps of the home Monday. When asked what he was doing outside the alleged brothel, he said he was looking for women.
"Chicas, maybe, I don't know," he told us.
The man said he had heard about the low cost for sexual favors. He showed 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS his wallet, which contained $100 bills he received after cashing his paycheck. He said word had spread that it only cost $40 to have sex with women at the home.
"Forty dollars maybe. I'm sorry. Only this one day," he said.
During that time, another man pulled his car up to the home and then drove away. Neighbors said it’s been a common sight.
"They always had five or six cars there. And I was always wondering how they could have so many cars," said Norris Haslip, who lives next door.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a simultaneous raid in Bloomington and Minneapolis and arrested Carlos Guadalupe-Laganes Jimenez, Eduardo Delariva-Larios, and Julio Cesar Silverio-Cuevas.
Officials said Silvero-Cuevas was a major player in the human trafficking investigation. He is one of 25 men that were indicted in May for arranging prostitution.
At that time, demonstrators protested after ICE agents raided eight homes. ICE confirmed that two of the people arrested during last week's raids were illegal immigrants and may now be deported.
Geez, the Spitz paid over $4 grand!
Video and pictures at link.
Different neighborhood from the Spitz.
Same slime.
Eduardo Delariva-Larios Carlos Guadalupe-Laganes Jimenez
So whores can fly into the country and practice their trade. Good job ICE is doing screening at airports. ICE will probably give the women work visas now so they can go work for the governor of new york.
Where’s Eliot?
Doing the job for less. Nah!
NAFTA, a world of new openings. Yeah, that's the ticket.
If only illegals and terrorists came across with shipments of cigarettes and dairy and corn products as a rule. We'd have the illegal problem fixed overnight.
RE: (MN Hispanics)
So if “Hispanics” had not been involved, would you still have posted this story?
So...If Illegal immigrants hadn’t killed four kids in Minnesota and one in Michigan....
You’d be OK with that???
Well, this being Minnesota, I was kinda hoping they’d caught Al Franken there. With Spitzer, I hope they can prove he did it with state funds and make a major “felony jail time” example out of this turd. I was worried that I was sinfully gleeful over Spitzer’s humiliation, but my sister works in the office of a Catholic grade school and assures me it’s not a sin at all. I’m gonna take her word for it. No point in asking my friend with the Ph.d. in Theology and undermining my confidence in it.
The women were “kept under watch”. Often they are in slavery. And they are told that they cannot go to the authorities because they will be “in trouble” with the authorities (there are also threats made against their families back home).
There are tens of thousands of such slaves in the US.
There are other slaves here too (several Saudi couples have been caught with them in the past year).
Our constitution means nothing to those enforcing laws. When the Saudis were caught, they had to pay “back wages” for several years labor. And it wasn’t much of a salary at that.
If they had been Asian women smuggled in as sex slaves, it’d still be wrong.
And once the lights went out they looked the exact same.
Imported, duty-free whores?
Looks like it was more right than I imagined, when I was told NAFTA stood for: "Not A F*****g Thing American".
No wonder honest American "working girls" have to become teachers and give it away to their students; it is the only way they can undercut the imports.
CHances are they are not “whaores” as you say, but rather are sold into sex slavery by their families. About as far from the definition of “whore” as you can get. These women need help, not derision.
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