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What happened
A Cuban man living in Palm Beach County smuggled three Cuban women into the US through Mexico in 2016 and 2017, then forced them to work in Palm Beach County strip clubs to pay smuggling debts of more than $10,000 to $26,000. He beat the women and threatened them and their families.
Response and intervention
Perpetrator: Ivan Madrigal Zamora. Investigation: ICE Homeland Security Investigations and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, with the Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Task Force. Outcome: Zamora pleaded guilty to two counts of forced labor trafficking and two counts of encouraging and inducing an alien to reside in the US. In February 2019 he was sentenced to 121 months in prison and ordered to pay $40,100 in restitution to the three victims.