EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two men are facing charges of hostage taking after members of a transnational organized crime task force raided an Albuquerque, New Mexico, home where 10 migrants were being held for ransom.
Task force members found the home after the FBI received a call on March 1 from a Guatemalan woman saying she had been told to wire transfer 90,000 quetzales ($11,700) or else her husband would be turned over to a Mexican drug cartel.
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The woman received a video sent repeatedly from various phone numbers of her husband on his knees stating his name, the date and that he was being held against his will in Albuquerque.
Court records show the woman later received a telephone call from a number with a New Mexico 505 area code…