A sex trafficking case from 2008 in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States.
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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?
She is charged with racketeering (class 2 felony), pimping (class 3 felony), tax evasion (class 5 felony), keeping a place of prostitution (class 2 misdemeanor), and promoting sexual immorality (class 2 misdemeanor). She was booked into the Mesa County Jail on a $250,000 bond.
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Louis Peroulis, Stanley Peroulis and Crisologo Damian. The Peroulis' own the farm where the sheepherders were held. Damian is the recruiter. They recruit sheepherders from Peru under a legal governmental agency but then charge exorbitant fees for the travel and keep the workers in terrible conditions without access to their travel documents.
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Jose Hernan Moreno-Sevilla and Alejandro M. Meza prosecutors say Jose Hernan Moreno-Sevilla and Alejandro M. Meza were paid to help a Peruvian man and others obtain illegal visas. The Peruvian man and at least two others were "loaded into a rented truck" in Arizona and brought to Orem to work for Hernan's construction company, court papers show. Each worker reportedly paid more than $10,000 for the move. While living with Hernan, each man worked up to 14 hours daily, over a six day week, earning just $9,500 annually. According to court papers Hernan kept all but $1,000 in wages and told the men they owed him the funds to cover costs related to their "smuggling, housing and transporting." Sources: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705301763/Utah-to-crack-down-on-human-trafficking.html http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2374359
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Opas Sinprasong, was a citizen of Thailand and has been in the United States on a "non-immigrant principal investor" status since at least 1994. He was the owner of several Asian restaurants in Boulder, Louisville and Broomfield. He held Thai immigrants as slaves and forced them to work 32+ hours of overtime for no compensation. He held the immigrants through the use of bonded labor, by requiring them to pay-off exorbitant fees for bringing them into the country.