Authorities said the home appears to have been a stash house for a human smuggling operation, and so-called 'coyotes' were holding the victims until loved ones paid for their release.
A disturbance call led authorities to find multiple migrants being held against their will at a home in Harris County.In northwest Harris County, seven Guatemalan migrants who were hungry, bruised, and held against their will have been freed.
Someone kicked in the front door of a house in the Mt. Royal Village subdivision at about midnight on Wednesday. A neighbor called 911 to report what they thought was a burglary. When deputies arrived, they found what appeared to be a human smuggling operation. The news spread quickly from neighbor to neighbor. None of them was willing to show their faces on camera, considering the dangers surrounding human smuggling. One man who lives along Morgensen Drive said deputies lined the street from about midnight until noon Wednesday.
"I thought it may have been a drug house. I wasn't sure, but I kept my distance," he said. "I stayed over here. I mind my business, and they stayed over there. I never spoke. He never spoke."
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