LAREDO, Texas (AP) - Three South Texas men have been hit with lengthy prison sentences for conspiring to kidnap and hold hostage immigrants who have entered the United States illegally.
Forty-two-year-old Jose Israel Diaz, 20-year-old Angel Alexis Diaz and 42-year-old Julio Osorio pleaded guilty last September to conspiracy to kidnap the immigrants. U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Mamolejo (mahr-moh-LAY’-hoh) sentenced Jose Diaz to 30 years in federal prison, Alexis Diaz to 21 years and 10 months in prison, and Julio Osorio got a prison term of 24 years and four months in prison.
Eight Mexican migrants to authorities that that had arranged to be smuggled into the United States at Laredo, where the Diazes and Osorio held them for ransom from the migrants’ families.
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