Vicenta Polanco, 30, and Luis Ariel Escalante, 24, were arrested Tuesday on human trafficking and prostitution charges, Miami-Dade jail records showed.
A man and woman are facing charges after police said they smuggled Cuban women into the United States and then forced them into prostitution in Miami-Dade. The charges stem from the accounts of two women who said they had been forced to prostitute themselves at the direction of Polanco and Escalante, police said. According to arrest reports, one victim said Polanco and Escalante visited her in Cuba and offered to pay to smuggle her to the U.S.
Both women were asked to hand over their Cuban passports and other legal documents, and were told they’d be assisted with legal representation for the immigration process, the reports said. In actuality, the passports and documents were taken as collateral to force the women to prostitute themselves, the reports said. Both women said they were expected to work seven days a week, seeing four to five customers per day. Escalante collected the money from the customers, the reports said.
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