Updated at 06:51 PM today
Foti Kallergis

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Authorities are looking for a teenage boy who his parents say was abducted by human smugglers.

Investigators were called to a home in the 7300 block of Ashburn near Prentiss as a part of their investigation. What they found was a stash house holding nearly a dozen immigrants.

One by one, with their hands up, police detained and escorted the immigrants out of the house.

"They say that the guards that have weapons on them were holding them against their will at this house, left just as the police were barely pulling up," Mark Holbrook with the Houston Police Department said.

Officers ordered the men out with their guns drawn. Each one was handcuffed and told to sit on the street as investigators searched the property.

What led investigators to this home was a 16-year old boy. Police believe he is being held by human smugglers, or coyotes.

"We do not know where that 16-year old is yet," Holbrook said.

According to Houston police, a man drove down from Georgia to pick up his son from coyotes who had brought his son up from Mexico. When he met two men at a taqueria on Broadway at Manchester, the coyotes apparently wanted an extra $2,800.

Police said the father couldn't come up with the cash. The coyotes threatened him with a pistol before speeding away with his son.

The father was reportedly able to get a license plate number on the vehicle they fled in, leading police to the home on Ashburn. Officers surrounded the home, eventually moving in. Inside, they found 10 illegal immigrants from Honduras who told police that men were keeping them hostage inside the home.

Guns were also found inside the house, police said. Investigators added that the immigrants were living in decent conditions.

The missing boy's name is Jose Enriquez Alvarez. He is believed to still be with the two men who drove away with him from the taqueria. They were in a green 2003 Ford F-150 with license plate number CRP-0528. If you see that vehicle, you are asked to call HPD or 911. The men are armed and dangerous.

The boy's father said he's sad because there's nothing he can do now. He is pleading for the coyotes to not hurt his son and to bring him back alive.

All of the Honduran immigrants were taken away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

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