10 Are Charged With Smuggling Of Immigrants.

Authors :: Kelley, Tina
Source :: New York Times. 7/22/2005, Vol. 154 Issue 53283, pB1-B6. 2p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
Publication Year :: 2005
Abstract: Reports a federal indictment in New Jersey accuses eight women and two men of participating in a smuggling ring that brought females from Honduras to the United States. Charges against the ten for conspiracy to commit forced labor offenses, alien smuggling, and harboring illegal aliens; How Honduran women were recruited for slave labor and abused; Comment from the federal prosecutor, Christopher J. Christie; The names listed in the indictment, including the ringleader Luisa Medrano, a naturalized citizen who is from El Salvador.