Mexican Man Sentenced in Immigrant Hostages Case
A Mexican man was recently sentenced to twenty-five years in federal prison in connection with a group of men who held almost two dozen illegal immigrants hostage last year in a drop house in Phoenix. Prosecutors said that thirty-seven-year-old Evaristo Ortiz-Jimenez was sentenced Monday in a United States District Court. He had previously pleaded guilty to carrying and using a firearm in connection to a crime of violence.
Ortiz-Jimenez was part of a group of human smugglers that held at least twenty-three immigrants at gunpoint in May last year, and had reportedly beaten several and sexually assaulted at least one of them. Ortiz-Jimenez was the first of four to be sentenced in this case.
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