Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Immigration & Customs Enforcement At his plea hearing, Reyes-Santillan admitted to operating a brothel and knowingly employing a juvenile to engage in prostitution. Diego Cortes-Barrientos and Rafael Cortes-Barrientos admitted to working at brothels in Memphis and taking money from clients who engaged in commercial sex acts with alien prostitutes. Both defendants further admitted that neither they nor any of the other operators of the brothels had filed a factual statement with ICE setting forth the names of the aliens, the place at which they were kept, the date of their entry into the United States, their ports of entry, or their ages, nationality, or parentage.
Location
United States · Memphis, Tennessee · 2006 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
With these pleas, eight defendants have pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and commercial sex charges in connection with brothels operated in Memphis. Four other defendants remain under indictment in the same case for crimes including child sex trafficking, conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, conspiracy to commit money laundering, enticing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to commit prostitution, and failure to file a factual statement about an alien.
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