Two indicted for running brothels in Framingham homes
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Updated: 10:05 PM EST Jan 15, 2021
General area where alleged brothel was located.
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Updated: 10:05 PM EST Jan 15, 2021
Grand jurors handed up indictments this week against a man and a woman accused of running brothels and human trafficking out of two Framingham homes. The statewide grand jury on Thursday indicted Samuel Artunduaga Herrera, 47, of Queens, New York, and Alejandra Arguello-Uribe, 38, of Framingham, on charges including trafficking persons for sexual servitude, maintaining a house of prostitution, keeping a house of ill fame and conspiracy, Attorney General Maura Healey announced.Both Herrera and Arguello-Uribe were arrested in September. Healey said that Massachusetts State Police assigned to her office began to investigate this case in 2019, after receiving a referral from the Framingham Police Department. "During the course of the investigation, authorities developed evidence indicating that Herrera and Arguello-Uribe ran a profitable and organized criminal enterprise through two residential brothels in Framingham where they offered sexual activity between victims and buyers in exchange for a fee," Healey wrote in a statement. "The AG’s Office alleges that Herrera ran one location himself and Herrera and Arguello-Uribe ran the second location together."Healey said that investigators found the brothel had between 20 and 30 sex buyers each day. Herrera is also accused of driving victims to other locations, where they were purchased for sex. Herrera and Arguello-Uribe will be arraigned on the charges in Middlesex Superior Court.