Slave Ring Broken at Laredo Texas

Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican officials say they have broken up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border.

Mexico's National Immigration Institute says 14 foreigners have been detained in the raid on a house near Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas.
Those detained include six Spaniards, and two people each from Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela. One person from Argentina and one from Ecuador were also detained, the institute announced Tuesday.
The institute said Tuesday that 10 Mexicans were also found at the house in filthy conditions, and are presumably among the victims of the cult.
The institute said the sect's leaders called themselves "The Defenders of Christ" and made members of the cult pay quotas, which they apparently paid with forced labor or sex.

U.S. Consulate security alert for Nuevo Laredo

Referencing Mexican law enforcement sources, the alert also said, "The increase in violence is likely the result of a split with the Zeta leadership."The U.S. Consulate has issued a security alert for Nuevo Laredo after unofficial reports of at least 50 people killed in the past week.
Nine more bodies were reported found Friday morning at the same highway overpass where other bodies were hung in May. The alert also said the majority died in 12 separate incidents, including arson attacks.
"The danger to innocent bystanders is high," the alert said, urging U.S. citizens to keep a low profile.
The alert said the violence may continue as the Zetas "attempt to settle scores and vie for control of Nuevo Laredo."
Also found along with bodies strewn above and below the overpass was a note that threatened the Gulf Cartel.
Its long time leader, Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, better known as "El Coss," was the Mexican government's latest arrest of high-ranking members of the Gulf Cartel in the past two weeks.
"He's one of the highest level traffickers that they've arrested in years," said Will Glaspy, assistant special agent in charge with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in the Rio Grande Valley.
However, Glaspy said it's believed Costilla already had been pushed aside by conflicts with the Gulf Cartel, so violent power struggles could be doubtful.
"The people who would step up in the case of his arrest, have already done so," Glaspy said.
But he said it is still too early to say whether the Zetas, the Gulf Cartel's arch-rivals and one-time enforcers, will try to seize even more power.
Glaspy said the Gulf Cartel already had aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel to battle the Zetas.
He said the Mexican government deserves credit for taking down Coss and other high profile players in the Gulf Cartel. "They’ve done a tremendous job, especially in the past month," Glaspy said.
(Note this is not the Los Algodones B.C., Mexico  Area).