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HOUSTON, April 28 (UPI) -- Members of a human trafficking ring have been sentenced for a conspiracy to smuggle Central American women into the United States and keep them in forced labor.
Eight defendants were convicted in Houston in connection with a scheme to force the women to work in restaurants, bars and cantinas in the Houston area. The defendants were accused of planning to use threats of harm to the victims and their families to keep them from escaping before they paid off their smuggling debts.
Six of the eight defendants received sentences, and two others are awaiting sentencing, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday in a press release.
Two brothers, Victor Omar Lopez and Oscar Mondragon, received the harshest sentences.
U.S. District Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore sentenced Lopez to 109 months in prison, followed by three years of probation, and ordered that he, jointly with his co-defendants, pay $1.7 million in restitution to the victims. Mondragon was sentenced to 180 months in prison and was ordered to pay, jointly with his co-defendants, over $1.1 million of the total of over $1.7 million in restitution awarded in the case.
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