Article: INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR NEW JERSEY ON AUG. 3: THREE PLEAD GUILTY IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SMUGGLING RING; YOUNG HONDURAN WOMEN REQUIRED TO WORK IN HUDSON COUNTY BARS

The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for New Jersey issued the following press release:

Three people pleaded guilty today, all members of a ring operating in the United States and Honduras that smuggled young Honduran women into the U.S. and required them to work off their smuggling debts in bars in Hudson County, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.

Noris Elvira Rosales Martinez, 29, of Union City, Ana Luz Rosales Martinez, 38, of Union City and Jose Dimas Magana, 40, of Union City, entered guilty pleas to violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000; specifically one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor, one count of forced labor, and ...

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