Brooklyn, New York, resident Samuel Granados-Hernandez, 33, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in sex trafficking, announced Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and James T. Hayes, Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), New York.
Granados-Hernandez was sentenced before Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, to 15 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for his involvement in sex trafficking.
According to court documents, Granados-Hernandez smuggled three victims from Mexico illegally into the United States and forced each of them to engage in prostitution. He kept the prostitution proceeds earned by the victims and engaged in a pattern of abuse for over a decade.
Granados-Hernandez pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging that between October 2000 and April 2011, he smuggled three victims from Mexico illegally into the United States and forced each of them to engage in prostitution. On July 24, 2012, he pled guilty to the charges.
The government’s case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Soumya Dayananda.
Granados-Hernandez’s brother Eleuterio Granados-Hernandez and his cousin, Angel Cortez-Granados, also smuggled young women from Mexico illegally into the United States, forced them to work as prostitutes in New York City and elsewhere, and collected profits from their activities. Both pleaded guilty to sex trafficking. In September 2013, Cortez-Granados was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In March 2014, Eleuterio Granados-Hernandez was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
In total, six members of the Granados family have been prosecuted and convicted in the United States.
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Sex Crimes|Human Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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