Three men have received decades-long federal prison sentences for their involvement in a violent conspiracy that involved alien smuggling and kidnapping, spanning from Cuba to South Florida and Louisiana.
U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman sentenced Osmel Benitez, 40, from Miami, to 408 months in prison. Victor Manuel Perez Cardenas, 39, from Tampa, received 210 months, and Jhonny Walther Izaguirre Lopez, 45, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 346 months.
“This was human smuggling at its most brutal—marked by kidnapping, extortion, and torture,” said U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida…