A recently filed search warrant outlines a human smuggling investigation centering on a Spring Branch area apartment complex.
Court documents read a man said he was held captive in an apartment on Ojeman at Manire for three days without food or water before escaping.
Court documents read police were told immigrants smuggled from Mexico into the US were taken to an apartment and held captive until they paid a fee of $5,500. The man who escaped told investigators he was living at a shelter in Mexico when he was approached by a man who offered to help get him into the US. An affidavit filed with the warrants reads the man said after arriving in the US he learned the man he met at the shelter was part of a smuggling operation who then threatened him at gunpoint.
The man told police he was then sexually assaulted with a toilet plunger. Court documents read an hour after the assault the man saw eight more immigrants brought into the apartment. He said he then noticed the guard was missing so he ran out of the back door and along the back of the complex before jumping a fence. Police wrote the man then ran down Spring Creek Branch until he found someone to dial 911.
Head of the immigrant rights organization FIEL, Cesar Espinosa said criminal operations like this have been seen across the city.Espinosa said his organization has helped several people brutalized by smugglers who pretend to offer a helping hand to those desperate to get into the US.
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