Migrants were burned, beaten, raped at cartel stash house, feds say
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Jun 24, 2024 / 03:10 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 24, 2024 / 07:03 PM CDT
Chihuahua police, Mexican soldiers free 13 Central American captives, arrest six suspects and are looking for two bodies
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Border Patrol encounter with two migrants in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, has led to the rescue of 13 Central Americans who were beaten, tortured, extorted and sexually assaulted in a house in Juarez, Mexico, U.S. officials say.
The two migrants who surrendered to Border Patrol on June 8 said they had been hit and burned in various parts of their bodies by their captors. They also told border agents they had been released after their families paid a ransom in addition to smuggling fees already collected.
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Homeland Security Investigations agents in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and in Juarez, Mexico, worked with Mexican authorities to locate the house operated by an unnamed transnational criminal organization. The joint investigation led to Mexican authorities rescuing 13 Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans from the stash house in the Anapra neighborhood of Juarez, which is just south of the border wall at Sunland Park, New Mexico.
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/hsi-migrants-were-burned-beaten-raped-at-cartel-stash-house/
