The Department of Justice reported that three men were sentenced for a horrific human smuggling enterprise that included kidnapping, torturing, and forcing migrants into labor in Cuba, Miami, and Louisiana.
According to a news release issued on Friday, three men—40-year-old Osmel Benitez of Miami, 39-year-old Victor Manuel Perez Cardenas of Tampa, and 45-year-old Jhonny Walther Izaguirre Lopez of Baton Rouge, Louisiana—were convicted in the May 2024 operation.
According to officials, the three planned to kidnap migrants who had been trafficked from Cuba to the United States…