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Mexican pimp Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez, brothers ran US sex ring, feds say
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Feb 24, 2021, 5:43:12 PM2/24/21
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A Mexican pimp and his brothers ran a yearslong sex ring that forced women
into prostitution across the US and used intimidation and violence to keep
them in line, Brooklyn prosecutors said Friday.
Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez, 45, aka “La Gallina” or “The Hen,” was arrested
in Mexico in August and extradited to New York earlier this week to face a
12-count indictment charging him and his two brothers with racketeering,
sex trafficking, interstate prostitution, alien smuggling and other raps.
His brothers, Arcelia Hernandez-Velazquez, 47, also known as “La Gordis,”
or the “The Chunky Woman,” and Ernesto Hernandez-Velazquez, 40, who goes
by “Chapas,” were already busted in New York in November 2019 and are
awaiting trial.
Arcelia Hernandez-Velazquez allegedly maintained a base for the ring in
Queens.
“For nearly two decades, the defendants lured young women into a brutal
life of forced prostitution through false promises of a better life,” said
Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District Seth DuCharme in a statement.
“This Office will leave no stone unturned in its efforts to end the
illegal exploitation of young women.”
Since 2001, the siblings preyed on at least six women in Mexico, luring
them into romantic relationships with declarations of love before
kidnapping them, according to a detention memo.
The victims were taken to the homes of organization members in Tenancingo,
Mexico, where they were held against their will and banned from contacting
their families, the memo says.
The women were then smuggled into the US, purportedly for a more
prosperous life with their traffickers. Instead, once stateside, the women
were transported to brothels and other locations in at least 16 states —
from New York to Louisiana to Rhode Island — and forced into sex work.
“The conduct of the organization was incredibly violent and transnational
in scope,” wrote Assistant US Attorney Margaret Lee in the detention memo,
urging Judge Vera Scanlon to hold Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez without bail.
“Along with his family, the defendant operated a business of exploiting
and abusing women.”
If the trafficking victims tried to leave the network, they were viciously
beaten and their families were threatened with violence, prosecutors
alleged. If the women became pregnant, they were forced to undergo
abortions.
If convicted, Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez faces a minimum sentence of 15
years in prison.
His lawyer, Calvin Scholar, did not immediately return a request for
comment.
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A Mexican pimp and his brothers ran a yearslong sex ring that forced women
into prostitution across the US and used intimidation and violence to keep
them in line, Brooklyn prosecutors said Friday.
Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez, 45, aka “La Gallina” or “The Hen,” was arrested
in Mexico in August and extradited to New York earlier this week to face a
12-count indictment charging him and his two brothers with racketeering,
sex trafficking, interstate prostitution, alien smuggling and other raps.
His brothers, Arcelia Hernandez-Velazquez, 47, also known as “La Gordis,”
or the “The Chunky Woman,” and Ernesto Hernandez-Velazquez, 40, who goes
by “Chapas,” were already busted in New York in November 2019 and are
awaiting trial.
Arcelia Hernandez-Velazquez allegedly maintained a base for the ring in
Queens.
“For nearly two decades, the defendants lured young women into a brutal
life of forced prostitution through false promises of a better life,” said
Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District Seth DuCharme in a statement.
“This Office will leave no stone unturned in its efforts to end the
illegal exploitation of young women.”
Since 2001, the siblings preyed on at least six women in Mexico, luring
them into romantic relationships with declarations of love before
kidnapping them, according to a detention memo.
The victims were taken to the homes of organization members in Tenancingo,
Mexico, where they were held against their will and banned from contacting
their families, the memo says.
The women were then smuggled into the US, purportedly for a more
prosperous life with their traffickers. Instead, once stateside, the women
were transported to brothels and other locations in at least 16 states —
from New York to Louisiana to Rhode Island — and forced into sex work.
“The conduct of the organization was incredibly violent and transnational
in scope,” wrote Assistant US Attorney Margaret Lee in the detention memo,
urging Judge Vera Scanlon to hold Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez without bail.
“Along with his family, the defendant operated a business of exploiting
and abusing women.”
If the trafficking victims tried to leave the network, they were viciously
beaten and their families were threatened with violence, prosecutors
alleged. If the women became pregnant, they were forced to undergo
abortions.
If convicted, Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez faces a minimum sentence of 15
years in prison.
His lawyer, Calvin Scholar, did not immediately return a request for
comment.
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"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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