SEGUIN, Texas \u2014 Two suspects were arrested by Seguin police early Wednesday in connection with a human trafficking investigation.<\/p>\n
According to the Seguin Police Department, officers responded to a welfare concern around 12:47 a.m. in the 1600 block of State Highway 123 Bypass. <\/p>\n
Police said a 26-year-old woman was yelling for help and was later located at a nearby residence. The woman told investigators she had been kidnapped from the Katy, Texas area and was sexually assaulted by two people. <\/p>\n
Seguin police identified the suspects as Brian Smith, 26, and Haiyan Lee, 25, also from the Katy, Texas area nearby.<\/p>\n
Smith and Lee were charged with aggravated sexual assault and trafficking of a person. Both were transported to the Guadalupe County Jail and are currently being held on a $1 million bond for each charge.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing. If you or someone you know may be experiencing human trafficking, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or text HELP or INFO to 233733 (BEFREE). The hotline is available 24\/7. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEGUIN, Texas \u2014 Two suspects were arrested by Seguin police early Wednesday in connection with a human trafficking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-391436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391436","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=391436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}