INVESTIGATORS from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) last Friday arrested one person on suspicion of human trafficking following operations at five locations in the Corporate Area and St Catherine.
Another person was also taken into custody but was processed and released.
OCID personnel are reporting that during the course of their operations, seven assumed victims of human trafficking were rescued. The assumed victims, all of Indian descent, have been placed in safe places. The operations were conducted based on intelligence and surveillance done on a number of business establishments over the last three months.
Tuesday 22 March 2011
INVESTIGATORS from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) last Friday arrested one person on suspicion of human trafficking
The leader of a human smuggling organization with ties to a notorious Los Angeles street gang has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison
The leader of a human smuggling organization with ties to a notorious Los Angeles street gang has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after being convicted on conspiracy charges.
U.S. District Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez noted while handing down his sentence Monday that Eduardo "Tito" Alvarez-Marquez had been responsible for a July 2009 incident in which 26 illegal immigrants were found locked in a truck in a Southern California desert.
Prosecutors say the 37-year-old’s organization smuggled at least 200 people into the United States each year, among them the matriarch of a clique within the Avenues gang.
A jury convicted Alvarez-Marquez in September of smuggling into the country aliens convicted of aggravated felonies and harboring an illegal alien.
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