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Authorities charge 2 in immigrant drop house case

July 9, 2009, 4:58PM

BASTROP, Texas — Authorities have arrested two men accused of holding more than two dozen immigrants hostage in a rural Central Texas drop house.

Bastrop County Sheriff's officials say 29-year-old Juan Carlos Sanchez-Camacho and 20-year-old Nabor Rodriguez-Guillen (GEE'-yen) were being held in jail Thursday. They're charged with aggravated kidnapping after six people from Honduras and El Salvador were found in the mobile home Wednesday night.

Sheriff's officials say someone escaped from the house and notified them that three men were holding up to 25 people near the community of Bateman.

The tipster said the captives were without food or water for three days and three women had been sexually assaulted. Their captors were demanding more money from family members for their release.

Bond is set at $700,000 each. There's no information on whether they have attorneys.



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