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Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Yahoo
Chilling video allegedly shows illegal migrant dragging screaming sex trafficking victim back to captivity
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Chilling surveillance shows the moment an illegal migrant from Honduras carries a screaming Chinese migrant woman back to a Houston trailer home where she was allegedly being held captive for days as a sex slave. The terrifying footage shows illegal migrant Jose Armando Carcamo-Perdomo carrying the hysterical victim off her feet in a bear-hug style grip as she tries to kick and wrangle her way free. Authorities said she was held at the trailer home without food and water inside a closet. In the video, the women can be heard screaming frantically while a dog at a fence barks loudly at them. Police were alerted to the trailer home after a neighbor saw the woman running down the street before a man grabbed her and carried her back screaming. Illegal migrant Jose Perdoma is accused of holding a Chinese migrant captive Texas Woman Arrested For Allegedly Smuggling Illegal Immigrants Hidden Inside Box Truck The Harris County Sheriff's Office said that the woman was transported from New York to Texas on the promise of new masseuse job that paid more cash. But that hope descended into horror when she was instead held tied up for more than five days, had her Chinese passport taken and sexually assaulted several times. "There was a small closet with a piece of wood across the door that was screwed into the frame," Lt. John Klafka, chief of the adult special crimes unit at the Harris County Sheriff's Office told Fox News. "They were able to rip that piece of wood off and open the door. It had been tied up. She had some type of object like a sock or something that was used to bound her hands." Read On The Fox News App Carcamo-Perdomo was arrested on July 14 and has been charged with kidnapping and assault. Alleged Human Smugglers Arrested In Texas After Hiding Migrants Inside Hollowed Hay Bales He entered the country illegally in 2020 from Honduras was given a notice to appear after a traffic stop, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But in 2023, an immigration judge decided to dismiss the case. "This heinous criminal illegal alien was freely roaming our interior and terrorizing American communities," DHS said in an X response to the incident. "Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is working day and night to remove the MILLIONS of illegal aliens in our interior. LAW AND ORDER WILL PREVAIL!" The lieutenant in charge of that investigation says he believes this is part of a much larger traffic ring that they're now investigating in Harris County. Klafka told Kprc 2 that the victim is safe in an undisclosed location and is receiving counseling and medical care. In a statement, the migrant's attorney said Carcamo is "shocked by the serious allegations" brought forth against him and "firmly maintains his complete innocence." "We remind the public that under the United States Constitution, every individual is entitled to the presumption of innocence, the right to due process, and a fair trial," the statement reads. "We expect law enforcement, the State of Texas, and the judicial system to honor these fundamental rights without prejudice or assumption. Original article source: Chilling video allegedly shows illegal migrant dragging screaming sex trafficking victim back to captivity
South China Morning Post
a day ago
- South China Morning Post
Ex-Cathay employee arrested in Hong Kong for alleged human trafficking role
A former customer services officer with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific has been arrested and remanded in custody after spending more than 15 years on the run for allegedly accepting bribes to help a human trafficking syndicate smuggle travellers overseas. Former Cathay employee Tsui Ying-kit, 44, was escorted to West Kowloon Court on Tuesday afternoon to face four counts of conspiracy for an agent to accept advantages. According to a charge sheet, the defendant conspired with two then-colleagues and others to ensure an unspecified number of travellers could check in for their flights and go through security checks in return for financial rewards between September 2008 and August 2009. The document did not provide the nationalities of the travellers concerned. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said in a statement that Tsui had accepted bribes of HK$1,000 (US$127) to HK$2,000 for each request made by the syndicate. Tsui had been placed on the wanted list since failing to report to ICAC in October 2009. He was arrested after returning to Hong Kong on Monday, according to the anti-corruption watchdog.
Associated Press
3 days ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
Libya deports 700 Sudanese migrants in crackdown on trafficking
CAIRO (AP) — Eastern Libyan authorities have sent hundreds of Sudanese back to their war-torn home country, officials said Saturday, in a crackdown on migrants seeking to flee conflict and poverty for Europe by way of the the Mediterranean nation. Seven hundred Sudanese who were detained recently in central and southeastern Libya, were deported Friday by land to Sudan, the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration in eastern Libya said in a statement. The statement said some of the deportees suffered from infectious diseases including hepatitis and AIDS. Others were deported because of either criminal convictions or 'security reasons,' it said, without elaborating. The deportation was part of an ongoing crackdown campaign on migrant trafficking in eastern Libya, which is controlled by forces of powerful military commander Khalifa Hifter. Last week, the coast guard in eastern Libya said it intercepted a boat carrying 80 Europe-bound migrants off the eastern city of Tobruk. The campaign includes raids on trafficking hubs across eastern and southern Libya. A raid earlier this month freed 104 Sudanese migrants, including women and children, who were held in a trafficking warehouse in the town of Ajdabiya, about 480 miles (800 kilometers) east of the capital, Tripoli, according to town security authorities. Libya has in recent years become a transit point for those fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, and seeking a better life in Europe. Human traffickers have benefited from more than a decade of instability, smuggling migrants across Libya's borders with six nations, including Chad, Niger, Sudan Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia. The North African country was plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Oil-rich Libya has been ruled for most of the past decade by rival governments in eastern and western Libya, each backed by an array of militias and foreign governments. Thousands of Sudanese have fled to Libya since their country plunged into chaos in April 2023 after simmering tensions between the Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group exploded into street fighting across the country. They are among the more than 240,000 Sudanese migrants who live in Libya, according to the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration.
Telegraph
5 days ago
- Telegraph
Children smuggled from Britain to France in reverse Channel crossings
Children as young as five were smuggled in refrigerated lorries heading to France by a London-based gang in a rare example of a reverse illegal Channel crossing. Investigators believe the gang carried out 20 runs between February and October 2023, the equivalent of more than two a month. Migrant smuggling from the UK to France is rare but demonstrates the continued lengths gangs are going to profit from people smuggling, in whichever direction. In 2024, 93 migrants were arrested for crossing illegally from the UK to France, according to data from the Hauts-de-France prefecture. The migrants trafficked by the London gang were brought to the UK on tourist visas, which can allow arrivals to stay for up to six months. Migrants who arrive legally in the UK on tourist visas can not necessarily be deported if stopped at the French border. Once they arrived, the migrants, who were from French-speaking North African countries, were packed into lorries bound from Dover to Calais, where it is thought they were hoping to settle. Azize Benaniba, a 41-year-old Algerian national and ringleader of the operation, was responsible for loading hundreds of migrants into the lorries and charging them £1,200 each for the trip. Some of the lorries were unrefrigerated and airtight, putting those inside in severe danger of overheating and suffocation. His co-conspirators, Mohamed Bechkit, 36, Mahmoud Haidous, 53, Abed Karouz, 40, Amor Ghabbari, 32, and Mohamed Abdelhadi, 50, organised the runs and hired a network of willing drivers. Mohamed Bouriche, 43, was responsible for transporting people to rendezvous locations near the UK border where they would be moved into the lorries. The group's activities began to unravel on Feb 21 2023, after 58 migrants were discovered by French border police hidden inside a lorry at Calais, having arrived from the UK and an investigation was launched by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Surveillance teams successfully intercepted several lorries travelling to the UK border and rescued those inside. Footage retrieved from a phone belonging to Bechkit showed a group of terrified migrants screaming and crying for help inside and banging on the sides of the trailer. One attempt on Sep 6 2023 saw 39 migrants, including women and children, loaded into an airtight refrigerated lorry trailer at a lay-by in Sandwich, Kent. NCA officers quickly intervened to rescue the migrants, but a few of them, including a child, required medical attention. The ringleaders were all arrested six months later in co-ordinated dawn raids in North London on March 20 2024. The NCA described the case as an anomaly and that it was a departure from the usual model of smuggling migrants from Calais into the UK, either via small boats or in lorries. The North African migrants, who spoke French, wanted to settle in France as it would be more familiar than the UK, The Telegraph understands. Benaniba was jailed for 12 years and 11 months at Isleworth Crown Court on July 17. Bechkit was jailed for 10 years and four months, Haidous received 13-and-a-half years, Karouz eight years and 10 months, Ghabbari nine years, Abdelhadi seven years and three months, and Bouriche seven-and-a-half years. John Turner, the NCA's senior investigating officer, said: 'These smugglers had no care for the safety or wellbeing of the people they crammed into lorry trailers – their only concern was making money. 'We've seen the fatal consequences of this crime type, as migrants have sadly lost their lives being smuggled across borders on land and at sea. 'Our thorough investigation has safeguarded hundreds of migrants who were put in serious danger, and has now led to jail terms for 12 members of a prolific people smuggling network. 'These criminal networks treat human beings like commodities, and we know the gangs and drivers involved in outbound smuggling are often involved in inbound smuggling too. 'Tackling organised immigration crime is a key priority for the NCA, and alongside our international law enforcement partners, we are relentless in our efforts to dismantle these networks wherever they operate.' Janine Baugh, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: 'This was a highly organised group which tried to smuggle migrants to France more than 20 times. 'They put the lives of people at risk – often in inhumane conditions – just to profit off others. We presented the court with a video of people screaming to be let out of a trailer, which demonstrates these poor conditions. 'The Crown Prosecution Service will continue to work with our partners at home and overseas and play a vital role in the Border Security Command in order to bring those involved in organised immigration crime to justice.'
Daily Mail
11-07-2025
- Daily Mail
BORIS JOHNSON: Channel migrants are shock troops recruited by Emmanuel Macron for his jihad against Brexit
Look at those people bobbing in the Channel, crossing the sea every day in an irresistible tide. See their pitiful burstable coracles, so rammed with humanity that their limbs are left trailing in the water.
