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High around 30F. Winds SE at 15 to 25 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.. Updated: November 28, am. It was all part of a sex trafficking ring that operated out of a midtown Omaha home for about three years, from the summer of through last June.
Federal and local authorities say the ring's operators preyed on women, some of them runaways as young as 13 and Heredia, Heredia's husband, Ramon D. Heredia, 21, will be sentenced in April. The four pleaded guilty last fall to conspiring to commit or financially benefit from sex trafficking. Crane-Horton is described in court records as the "mastermind. Katherine Heredia worked as a prostitute. At some point in , the Heredias moved in, and the four shared 1, square feet and living expenses.
Katherine Heredia told authorities she would sometimes work as a prostitute so she and her husband could make rent. She and two other prostitutes provided authorities with details on the inner workings of the ring and helped prosecutors build their case. Council Bluffs police and FBI agents learned of the operation in January , when they responded to an ad on Craigslist as part of a prostitution sting. A thenyear-old La Vista woman met an undercover police officer in a Council Bluffs apartment.
