Feds Arrest Two for Human Trafficking Violation

From the U.S. Attorney:

Brothers From Chicago Charged in Labor Trafficking Conspiracy

CHICAGO — Two brothers from Chicago have been arrested on a labor trafficking charge for allegedly forcing undocumented Mexican immigrants to work in the construction trade.

AGUSTIN ARIAS LOPEZ, 30, and JUAN ARIAS LOPEZ, 32, conspired to illegally bring two individuals from Mexico to the United States on the condition that they work for the brothers’ construction business and repay the purported costs of their transport into the U.S., according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. 

After they arrived in Chicago, the undocumented immigrants worked 12-15 hours per day, seven days per week, in exchange for weekly payments from the Arias Lopez brothers of $800 to $1,000, the complaint states. 

From that sum, the immigrants were required to pay the Arias Lopez brothers $500 per week, which the brothers claimed went towards not only the costs of the transport but also rent, as the immigrants resided in Agustin Arias Lopez’s unfinished basement in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, the complaint states.

The complaint alleges that the Arias Lopez brothers threatened the immigrants with violence if they did not pay the money.  On one occasion in November 2021, Agustin Arias Lopez allegedly pointed a handgun at one of the immigrants.

The complaint charges the Arias Lopez brothers with conspiracy to knowingly bring, transport, harbor, and induce aliens to come to, enter, remain in, and reside in the U.S.   The brothers were arrested Thursday.  A detention hearing in federal court in Chicago is set for March 28, 2022, at 2:00 p.m.

The complaint and arrests were announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Emmerson Buie, Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI; Irene Lindow, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General in Chicago; and Angie Salazar, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of Homeland Security Investigations.  The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles W. Mulaney.

The public is reminded that a complaint is not evidence of guilt.  The defendants are presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.  The charge in the complaint is punishable by up to ten years in federal prison.  If convicted, the Court must impose a reasonable sentence under federal statutes and the advisory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.


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Feds Arrest Two for Human Trafficking Violation — 19 Comments

  1. Thank a DEMOCRAT for the DEI that’s come to Illinois and is slowly but surely
    turning it into a third world sub-human garbage dump.

  2. Yet we need to protect the borders of the Ukraine to protect the biolabs and Biden/elite’s money laundering operations. The clown show on the MSM is unbearable to watch and believe.

    Putin is doing Ukraine a favor.

    Remember, Burisma and all of the slime in DC whose children are involve in that country. Kerry, Pelosi, Biden, on and on.

    Now we have another boatload of Ukranian refugees that flew legally to Mexico and are ready to cross the unprotected US border illegally. Are we going to house them with the recently imported Afghan communities? Unbelievable.

    Why are we so worried about the biolabs if we are creating cures for diseases for the world? The idiots in DC want that country destroyed to rubble to cover up their corruption like they did with Covid.

  3. It’s all true ‘cause it’s on the internet!

    Signs and wonders!

  4. Cindy, what is your point of posting that relative to this story? I’m surprised the guy didn’t pull out the Sovreign card which would result in a 3-hour traffic stop and him being released. He looks like a guy looking to entrap cops which is not how 99% of us live life. I get it we should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Too many people freely accept that they give up those rights when they go to the DMV. It’s now called a taxable privilege. It’s a joke but not a hill to die on. We have much bigger fish to fry first.

  5. Mellow monk can’t deal with facts, so he mocks.

    Typical braindead democrat.

  6. He’s NOT a sovereign, JT! He’s all about the rule of law.

    The point is that you NEED to look at YOUR OWN home town. Salivating over stories like this one while thinking it’s NOT happening right in your own backyard are what the point here is.

  7. Sorry Cindy. That guy is a little bitch and a waste of internet space.

  8. Sally Jesse Raphael called – she wants her glasses back.

    ✌️😎

  9. Per above:

    “The complaint charges the Arias Lopez brothers with conspiracy to knowingly bring, transport, harbor, and induce aliens to come to, enter, remain in, and reside in the U.S.”

    What’s wrong with encouraging people from around the world, some terrorists and gang members and other evils, to come to the U.S. illegally?

    Recall seeing top Democrat presidential candidates, including doofus Joe and his nitwit VP, saying that was OK in debates in 2020.

    Now, in power, the doofus and the nitwit are allowing illegals across the southern border and transporting these all around the U.S.

    An old saying – “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander”.

    Shouldn’t the feds look into the doofus and the nitwit?

  10. **what is your point of posting that relative to this story?**

    It is not my typical m.o. to defend Cindy, but JT complaining about other people posting comments not on topic to the story is very amusing.

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