After a report from a witness who noticed what appeared to be a kidnapping in the Snapper Creek Lakes neighborhood in Coral Gables, Florida, led to the arrest of a group of Cubans accused of human trafficking.
According to what was announced, three Cubans were arrested in Miami, in southern Florida, after being discovered transporting more than twenty irregular immigrants from China, Ecuador and Brazil.
The suspects were identified as José Luis Villares, Lucas Sedeno Rodríguez and Keiner Cicilia Rodriguez, who were arrested last Friday in Coral Gables, south of Miami, and face federal charges for transporting or attempting to transport undocumented immigrants within the United States.
The men were discovered after a passerby told local police that a woman was pushed into the back seat of a vehicle with a Texas license plate, parked near a moving truck in a neighborhood of this southern city.
The officers then stopped both vehicles and They discovered that inside the van there were 23 personnel, nationals of China and Ecuador, overcrowded and without ventilation, with cardboard in the vehicle windows.
At the same time, inside the car with a Texas license plate were five other people, from Ecuador and Brazil, in addition to the woman who had been placed in the back seat of the car.
According to federal authorities, The migrants had apparently arrived by boat in southern Florida from the Bahamas and as undocumented immigrants.
Sedeno Rodríguez, according to investigators, confessed that he received about $5,000 dollars as payment to transport the undocumented immigrants, and that he hired Villares to drive the van for a payment of $500 dollars.
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