{"id":331459,"date":"2026-06-11T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:23:08","slug":"tren-de-aragua-barbie-sentenced-to-two-years-in-el-paso-gateway-hotel-trafficking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331459\/","title":{"rendered":"Tren de Aragua &#8216;Barbie&#8217; sentenced to two years in El Paso Gateway Hotel trafficking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A Tren De Aragua gang member who had been arrested in El Paso has been sentenced for trafficking people out of the now-defunct Gateway Hotel in Downtown. <\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Estefania Primera, aka &#8220;La Barbie,&#8221; pled guilty to trafficking of a person and was sentenced to two years on June 4. <\/p>\n<p>Court records show that Primera has 616 days in &#8220;jail credit,&#8221; meaning that&#8217;s how many days will be shaved off her sentence because she has been incarcerated that long while awaiting trial. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/report-tren-de-aragua-member-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-migrant-at-gateway-hotel-la-barbie-el-paso-texas-gang-estefania-primera-border-patrol-dps-border-migrants?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Report: Tren De Aragua member arrested for sex trafficking migrant at Gateway Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you may remember, Primera was the subject of a New York Post report, that revealed that she had been arrested for drugging a woman and letting men rape her in exchange for money.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the victim, who was in Border Patrol custody when she admitted to working as a prostitute in El Paso, entered the U.S. in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Primera reportedly first told the victim she could make some money by prostituting herself; however, when the victim said she wasn&#8217;t interested, Primera forced the woman to take an M30 pill containing fentanyl, as well as another pill that made the woman go &#8220;in and out of consciousness,&#8221; while men raped her.<\/p>\n<p>On multiple occasions, court documents state, the woman would wake up bleeding and injured and instead of providing medical care, Primera would reportedly tell her to take another M30 pill.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on at least one occasion, the woman attempted to leave the hotel but was allegedly forced back in by Primera.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gateway Hotel in downtown El Paso. (credit: KFOX14\/CBS4)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a10175b4-99d7-472f-9373-d18ca9760323-thumb_10175.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gateway Hotel in downtown El Paso. (credit: KFOX14\/CBS4)<\/p>\n<p>The woman also reportedly told the hotel manager about the abuse, but they chalked it up to domestic violence and told the woman to go back to her room.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until Sept. 10, 2024, that the woman fled the hotel and &#8220;purposely&#8221; contacted a border patrol agent for help.<\/p>\n<p>One week later, she was interviewed by a special agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety who located a listing for the woman on a website advertising various sexual services.<\/p>\n<p>During that interview, the woman also told the DPS agent that she saw men pay Primera for the sexual services, but that she never received any money herself.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/murder-charge-dismissed-against-el-paso-man-after-grand-jury-declines-indictment?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Murder charge dismissed against El Paso man after grand jury declines indictment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A Tren De Aragua gang member who had been arrested in El Paso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-331459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331459","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=331459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}