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Title: 3 accused of running major Hispanic prostitution ring in North Alabama
Source: The Decatur Daily
URL Source: http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070802/ring.shtml
Published: Aug 2, 2007
Author: Jay Reeves
Post Date: 2007-08-03 03:08:16 by PercyDovetonsils
Keywords: illegal, immigration, sextrafficing
Views: 516
Comments: 9

3 accused of running major Hispanic prostitution ring in North Alabama

By Jay Reeves Associated Press Writer

BIRMINGHAM — Three Mexican men accused of running a major prostitution ring catering to Hispanics in Northeast Alabama allegedly paid women $15 to perform sex acts and hired a bounty hunter to pose as a police officer and shut down rival operations.

The men had hundreds of condoms to provide to customers, and they sent profits of as much as $1,000 every three days to the owner of the illicit business in Mexico, according to court documents filed by prosecutors.

One women had sex with upward of 80 men daily toward the end of each week, the prosecutors’ documents say, and agents were told that women from eight Latin American countries worked at the trailer-park brothel in Marshall County.

The charges are contained in a complaint linked to the federal indictment announced Tuesday of three Mexican men accused of operating a prostitution business in a mobile home in Albertville.

Police raided the ring in February and estimated it took in as much as $800,000 annually while forcing women into a life as prostitutes. Authorities said the brothel operated for as long as seven years, although the indictment covers only a two-year period beginning in March 2005.

Since February, police have broken up a second, smaller prostitution operation in Albertville.

“It was another trailer park on the other side of town. It just happened to be Hispanic also,” police Sgt. Jamie Smith said Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors said Jose Fernandez-Gonzales, 25; and brothers Miguel Leon Mora, 31, and Jose Elias Mirada-Guillen, 41, were charged with conspiracy, enticing an alien to engage in prostitution and transporting an alien across state lines for illegal sexual activity. All are Mexican citizens, federal authorities said.

Mirada, who previously was deported as an illegal immigrant in 1989, was charged with illegally re- entering the United States.

Attorneys for the men did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment.

If convicted, the men face maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and fines of $250,000.

Court documents contend the business was owned by Martin Gonzalez, brother of Leon and Mirada. Every three days, the pair wired him profits ranging from $800 to $1,000, according to a sworn statement by a federal agent.

Customers entering the trailer paid $30 for a poker chip they could exchange for 15 minutes of sex, the statement claims. The women would collect the chips and then trade them in for $15 each.

‘Security’

A man nicknamed “Security” worked for the ring and posed as a police officer to close competing prostitution operations, the complaint said, and officers who stopped a car driven by Leon found it loaded with cash totaling $7,070, 576 condoms and clean sheets and bedding.

The traffic stop helped lead to the arrests.

Besides the men, police arrested two alleged prostitutes — Antera Genoveve Peguero-Ayala, a Dominican immigrant in the United States legally, and Graciela Flores, a Mexican citizen who was brought to Alabama from Gainesville, Ga.

Flores — who claimed to have sex with 25 men on slow days and around 80 on busy days — told authorities that women from Cuba, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador and El Salvador also worked as prostitutes, the court documents show.

Police in Albertville, about 60 miles northeast of Birmingham, believe the arrests at least temporarily shut down brothels catering to Spanish-speaking men in the area.

“There are none at the moment that we know of,” said Smith.

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#1. To: All (#0)

Word has it the women were abused and treated as slaves.

Family values!

Swimming around in my bourbon highball.....

PercyDovetonsils  posted on  2007-08-03   3:10:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: PercyDovetonsils (#0)

If I were an American woman, I would have mixed feelings about the authorities shutting down the "comfort women" operations for the illegal aliens.

It could be argued that this sort of thing is keeping them from assaulting or at least hitting on the Americans. OTOH, some of the American women are no doubt desperate enough to WANT to be hit on by ANYONE.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-08-03   8:08:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: PercyDovetonsils (#0)

Three Mexican men accused of running a major prostitution ring catering to Hispanics in Northeast Alabama allegedly paid women $15 to perform sex acts and hired a bounty hunter to pose as a police officer and shut down rival operations.

Fifteen bucks? Americans are being priced out of the market on everything...

Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org

who knows what evil  posted on  2007-08-03   8:15:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: who knows what evil, PercyDovetonsils, IndieTx (#3)

hree Mexican men accused of running a major prostitution ring catering to Hispanics

They are not hispanics. They are mestizos. Ask any hispanic.

Hos? From the DHS Dahlins? Yo mamma ! Yo kiddin' ! Dems good fambly peeple.

All 25 millyun nub dem.

JCHarris  posted on  2007-08-03   8:18:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: who knows what evil (#3)

a major prostitution ring

Just read the AIDS advisories:

Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador.

You'll keep it in your pants !

JCHarris  posted on  2007-08-03   8:20:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: JCHarris (#5)

The prostitute's number of daily copulations is not salient to the investigation, but merely indicates the policemen's prurient interest in sexual matters; that is: the cops were getting their jollies by inquiring about particulars...certainly no surprise there.

Bub  posted on  2007-08-03   9:44:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: JCHarris (#5)

You'll keep it in your pants !

LOL...I'm married to a woman who is an excellent shot with her .357. I know where to "keep it".

Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org

who knows what evil  posted on  2007-08-03   10:39:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: who knows what evil (#3)

My thinking also....

God knows what crotch-rot you get with this deal, though.

Swimming around in my bourbon highball.....

PercyDovetonsils  posted on  2007-08-04   1:58:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: JCHarris (#5)

You definitely would bring home a virus friend there.

Oh my God, over 80 men sharing that foxhole a day. I'm gonna puke.

Swimming around in my bourbon highball.....

PercyDovetonsils  posted on  2007-08-04   2:00:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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