2 men held in rape, kidnap of migrants in desert

The Associated Press
10:40 a.m. August 22, 2009

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Authorities in San Bernardino County have arrested two people accused of kidnapping two undocumented immigrants, raping one of them and leaving the other naked in the Mojave desert.

Sheriffs officials said Friday that Raul Ibarra and Pedro Marcos were arrested on suspicion of smuggling a Guatemalan couple into the U.S. and holding them captive for a month in a Lancaster home.

Officials say the suspects demanded more money from the victims and dumped them in a remote desert area on Wednesday.

The male victim made his way to a residential area of Twentynine Palms, about 25 miles away, where he helped deputies find his girlfriend

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