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Texas woman, 23, admits to drugging migrant kids with melatonin gummies as part of child-trafficking ring: ‘We knocked her out’
nypost.com ^ | September 24, 2024 | Alex Oliveira

Posted on 09/25/2024 4:38:06 AM PDT by lowbridge

A Texas woman has confessed to drugging young girls with melatonin gummies while trafficking them into the US — just as border agents are warning that kids are being smuggled through similar means all across the southern border.

Vanessa Valadez, 23, of Laredo, pleaded guilty Friday to working with family members to smuggle children under the age of 5 into the country from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, between August and September 2023.

“La noquiamos con unas gomitas,” one of Valdez’s co-conspirators wrote in a message alongside an image of a passed out girl during one operation — which translates to “we knocked her out with some gummies.”

Valdez and her family smuggled at least four young girls into the country, according to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), picking them up from a stash house across the border and drugging them before using phony birth certificates to try to pass them off as family members.

After Laredo, the girls were taken deeper into the US and left with unknown people for unknown purposes.

Valdez and her conspirators were finally foiled on Sept. 21, 2023, during a routine inspection by border agents.

Three of the girls smuggled into the US remain unidentified, and their locations are unknown, HSI said in a statement.

Valdez’s co-conspirators were Ana Laura Bryand, 47; and her niece Kayla Marie Bryand, 20; Jose Eduardo Bryand, 43; Nancy Guadalupe Bryand, 44; and 32-year-old Lizeth Esmeralda Bryand Arredondo, of Mexico. Each previously pleaded guilty to their parts in the sick conspiracy.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: childabuse; children; illegalimmigration; immigration; smuggling; texas
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1 posted on 09/25/2024 4:38:06 AM PDT by lowbridge
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[Vanessa Valadez, 23, of Laredo, pleaded guilty Friday to working with family members to smuggle children under the age of 5 into the country from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, between August and September 2023.]

Just doing the drugging and the smuggling that Americans refuse to do. Right, George W. Bush?


2 posted on 09/25/2024 4:43:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: lowbridge

Women trafficking Women??? We are broken. Shut it down, power it off and restore it to factory settings.
This is what the Bible means by astorge. Even the Republicans support chemical abortion. Women destroying their own.
This is the end. Nothing worth saving here. I hate it that my grandchildren will live in the New Dark Ages.
Heck, we barely blinked when finding out our Universities are purchasing baby parts from planned parenthood- and the baby must be alive to get the ideal liver.
If it cures cancer, Alzheimers and saves the economy, there are apparently no limits as to the horror we vote for.
Chemical abortion dangers are being covered up by the Big Gov Medical Complex. But hey, men supporting mass abortion are definitely the good guys.


3 posted on 09/25/2024 4:47:16 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: lowbridge
"...the girls were taken deeper into the US and left with unknown people for unknown purposes."

The movie "Sound of Freedom" wasn't fiction and the reason our pedophile elites* wanted it crushed.

*includes Joe Biden and every Demoncrat that favors open borders.

4 posted on 09/25/2024 4:58:48 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: momincombatboots

they’ll never cure cancer- there is a lot of $$ to be made off of sick people.


5 posted on 09/25/2024 5:08:37 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: momincombatboots

This is almost sick to say, but I almost envy my deceased parents for being deceased. At least they don’t have to see this.


6 posted on 09/25/2024 5:17:16 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
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To: SaveFerris; PROCON

Wow gummies have come a long way. What is next, jujy fruits?


7 posted on 09/25/2024 5:23:44 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: lowbridge

Melatonin?? Really???


8 posted on 09/25/2024 5:35:37 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Larry Lucido

Do you know how far back using Melatonin goes 14 years, Daycares were using it and Kindergardens, 1 infant died and a toddler. Then they went and made gummies out of the crap. More OD’s as adults left the tops off or loose, or didn’t secure them, no childproof cap until recently. Many brands still don’t have such tops.


9 posted on 09/25/2024 5:39:40 AM PDT by GailA (kamalaczar and herr waltz want to turn America into a commie country. Vote Trump.)
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To: lowbridge

Her family must have gotten behind on their US partner payouts!!


10 posted on 09/25/2024 5:40:28 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: momincombatboots

I’m with you. Glad I am on the downward side of life.

How did this world go from a good place to absolute evil???


11 posted on 09/25/2024 5:42:37 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: momincombatboots

Ever heard of a “madam”?


12 posted on 09/25/2024 5:44:46 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Larry Lucido

You were hit by a car?

I’ll have to stop at the snack bar first.

And popcorn.


13 posted on 09/25/2024 5:45:00 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: lowbridge
Need to declare war on Mexico.

What to do with it if captured? Many intriguing possibilities.

14 posted on 09/25/2024 5:48:53 AM PDT by caddie
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To: Psalm 73

I saw *Sound of Freedom*.

As appalling as the child sex trafficking is, the part that’s horrific is the women involved.

No disrespect to men here, but in these cases men are usually the perps and women the victims and women who sacrifice CHILDREN whom they are wired to protect, love, and nourished, is demonic to the core. It is evil beyond belief and whatever awaits them in the afterlife is justly due.

I cannot fathom how a woman can turn young girls over for this kind of abuse.


15 posted on 09/25/2024 5:56:37 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: bankwalker
Melatonin?? Really???

Sure. You ever take any?

It can really knock you out.

16 posted on 09/25/2024 5:57:47 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: lowbridge

Sounds to me (by parts of the names of those involved) that this ‘family’ had this smuggling ring covered from both sides of the border. In some countries, life doesn’t matter where there is money involved.

Here’s a novel idea, Que-Mala. If you actually rigidly controlled the border, the majority of illegals entering, children being smuggled for illegal purposed, drugs like Fentanyl and a host of other ancillary problems to the US would be diminished significantly.


17 posted on 09/25/2024 6:05:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: metmom

Wish that were true- doesn’t do anything for me. Sleeping pills on the other hand will knock me out for about 2-3 hours, then wide awake watching the hours tick by

Cbd helps a little, but nothing to write home about.


18 posted on 09/25/2024 6:06:12 AM PDT by Bob434
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Time to set them free with fully loaded debit cards, and of course, use the right pronouns!!!!


19 posted on 09/25/2024 6:08:47 AM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I’m reading through the comments with tears in my eyes. My stomach hurts and I’m pushing bile down thinking of what evil these babies are about to endure.

Damn every politician to hell who isn’t ten thousand percent working to stop this evil in our country.


20 posted on 09/25/2024 6:09:42 AM PDT by navymom1 (I am voting for President Trump and you should too!)
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