Kelsey Davis

Montgomery Advertiser

Two men were sentenced in federal court to one year imprisonment on Monday for their roles facilitating a sex trafficking ring, which court documents indicate stretched from Texas to North Carolina.

Andres Gomez and Saul Eligio pleaded guilty to helping run a brothel in Cambridge Apartments off Bonaparte Boulevard in Montgomery, where undocumented immigrant women were prostituted.

Gomez acted as a security guard at the brothel; Eligio was in charge of collecting the profits each week, a criminal complaint states.

In a previous hearing related to the case, FBI agent Chris Carver testified that the trafficking scheme was a highly organized operation which essentially created a pipeline of immigrant women, trafficking them from the border into sex slavery.

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“The girls (were) rotated out on a weekly basis,” read the document. They mainly traveled from Atlanta, and would be transported by “other individuals from the operation.”

Investigators cited a “confidential source” in the criminal complaint, who said his friend was propositioned at a supermarket in Montgomery by a man they didn’t know.

“(The unidentified man) explained that there was an apartment at Cambridge Parks … where there were two girls and it only cost $30 to have sex with them,” reads the complaint.

Men would pay Gomez the $30 for their allotted time with the women who sometimes would have approximately 20 “customers” a day, the complaint states.

Both co-defendants were charged with one count of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution. They will face deportation after serving their sentence.

They were indicted in Nov. 2015 along with Bernabe “El Chaparro” Carbajal, who is accused of running brothels in Montgomery, Birmingham and Albertville, Alabama.

He’s no longer being prosecuted in Alabama, as he was also federally indicted in Georgia, along with 37 others, for sex trafficking charges. That case is still pending.