{"id":29157,"date":"2025-10-31T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29157\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:48:09","slug":"el-paso-attorney-among-9-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/29157\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Attorney Among 9 Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas authorities arrested nine people, including an El Paso attorney, following a year-long investigation led by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) into an international human trafficking ring forcing Cuban women into prostitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The arrests underscore how criminal networks exploit vulnerable migrants, trapping them in cycles of debt bondage and sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to DPS and HSI, investigators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/news\/joint-operation-yields-several-arrests-related-human-trafficking-prostitution-west-texas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:uncovered;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">uncovered<\/a> a sprawling operation stretching from Cuba through Central America into West Texas. Female victims were smuggled into the United States, then forced to work as prostitutes to repay their traffickers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mario Ortiz Saroldi, 38, represented some trafficking victims in court while allegedly soliciting them for sex. The El Paso attorney faces solicitation of prostitution charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators also arrested Yasiel Rodriguez-Amaro, 31, and Katherine Ventura-Amaro, 37, both of El Paso. The pair face aggravated promotion of prostitution, online promotion of prostitution, and drug possession charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Different members of the trafficking ring handled specific roles. Some advertised victims online while others transported women to locations throughout El Paso for prostitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All suspects face various charges including prostitution, aggravated promotion of prostitution, and engaging in organized criminal activity. Some also face immigration and drug-related charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation remains ongoing, and authorities have not released the names of the other six suspects or additional details about the trafficking network\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas authorities arrested nine people, including an El Paso attorney, following a year-long investigation led by the Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,19667,6974,19668],"class_list":["post-29157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-homeland-security-investigations","tag-human-trafficking","tag-trafficking-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}