Between 1991 and 2004, Josue Flores Carreto, Gerardo Flores Carreto, and Daniel Perez Alonso, were members of a criminal organization that obliged young Mexican women into prostitution through force, fraud, and coercion. The men recruited young, uneducated women, from impoverished backgrounds from Mexico, smuggled them to the United States, and forced them to engage in prostitution in the New York City metropolitan area. The men physically and sexually assaulted their victims, used threats of physical harm and restraint in order to force the women to commit acts of prostitution. The women were beaten for hiding money, disobeying their orders, and failing to earn enough money. The defendants and their associates confiscated all of the victim’s earnings. On November 16, 2004, a federal grand jury returned a 27-count indictment, charging Josue Flores Carreto, Gerardo Flores Carreto, Daniel Perez Alonso, Defendant 5, Consuelo Carreto Valencia, and Maria De Los Angeles Velasquez Reyes with multiple offenses including conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371; sex trafficking, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591; transporting for prostitution, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2421; importation of an alien for immoral purposes, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1328; and alien smuggling, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324. Two other members of the criminal organization, Eloy Carreto Reyes, and Edith Mosquera de Flores, were charged separately.