Two weeks before police and federal agents streamed into the New Victorian Inn and Suites to bust an alleged human trafficking ring, Eudis Cuéllar Martínez described to Omaha officers what they would find inside.
The Venezuelan man told police about six large families living alongside him and other immigrant laborers in the southwest Omaha hotel. He told them that he hadn’t gotten paid for most of his work on the building. He told them that he felt he couldn’t say “no” to his bosses because of his undocumented status.
Cuéllar Martínez’s remarks — recorded following his arrest on a now-dismissed drug charge — appeared on three pages of a sprawling criminal complaint, bolstering allegations of labor trafficking against his ex-employers, five Indian hoteliers and salon owners…