Federal human trafficking investigation underway at Dundee waterpark hotel

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-23 22:19:43 | Updated at 2024-09-30 15:24:50 6 days ago

Federal human trafficking investigation underway at Dundee waterpark hotel
WTVG (ABC 13 Toledo, OH) ^ | 09/18/2024 | WTVG Staff

Posted on 09/23/2024 2:42:13 PM PDT by DFG

Splash Universe, a waterpark hotel in Dundee, Michigan, is at the center of a human trafficking investigation. That’s according to federal agents with Homeland Security.

The investigation stems from an alleged argument that turned physical between hotel staff and the manager. According to a report from Dundee Police, that manager called an officer to the hotel on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, at about 6:50 p.m. He said a female employee threw a phone and hit him in the head.

Once he arrived, the officer said no one among a group of five employees spoke English. So, he called a Michigan State Police officer who translated from Spanish over the phone.

The police report states a 30-year-old woman, " ... told the interpreter that she was an undocumented immigrant who was brought to Splash Universe by the manager with the promise of receiving $90.00 per day for working at the hotel, along with room and board. She said they had worked nine days and had yet to receive payment.”

The officer also wrote a 25-year-old woman “... used Google Translate to tell me that she was pregnant and that she had not eaten in two days. She also told me that the argument had started specifically after they were told that they were only going to be paid $5 per hour, instead of the $90.00 a day they were originally promised. She also told me that the manager had threatened to call ICE if they did not do what he told them to do.”

Dundee Police then contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement. An ICE agent confirmed the three who had IDs were in the country illegally and told the Dundee Police officer it sounded like the hotel was trafficking immigrants.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: dundee; ohio; toledo; trafficking

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1 posted on 09/23/2024 2:42:13 PM PDT by DFG

To: DFG

I am sure this style of ‘making money’ can be expected to increase a great deal, and probably right next door and we don’t even realize it.

2 posted on 09/23/2024 2:55:56 PM PDT by rovenstinez

To: DFG

Oh yah? Are their prices reasonable?

To: DFG

Once he arrived, the officer said no one among a group of five employees spoke English.

Once again, total chaos created, produced and directed by the corrupt SOBs who've hijacked government.

4 posted on 09/23/2024 2:58:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

To: DFG

How many boxes of ballots blocked their way?

5 posted on 09/23/2024 2:59:00 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)

To: DFG

In my view this is the reason the dems want an open border. The primary uses are for labor and sex…on the cheap.

6 posted on 09/23/2024 2:59:59 PM PDT by 556x45

To: DFG

The greedy AH’s in the U.S. want cheap low wage servants.

If they have to turn your town into a ghetto, full of low wage 3rd world imports, so be it.

Profits regardless of consequences is killing America.

7 posted on 09/23/2024 3:03:28 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

To: dragnet2

$5/hr X 18 hours of work equals $90 a day. Promises kept.

8 posted on 09/23/2024 3:07:07 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

To: 556x45

In other words slaves

Democrats have
Always been the slave party

9 posted on 09/23/2024 3:15:18 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )

To: DFG

Illegal aliens are a form of slavery.

10 posted on 09/23/2024 3:16:49 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)

To: DIRTYSECRET

And here I thought it was the corrupt and greedy in the U.S. who rolled out the red carpet for upwards of 30+ million illegals so they could pay those dirt cheap servant labor wages.

It’s not all about profits regardless of consequences! All these thousands of business owners who hire millions of these illegals are all honorable with good intentions.

Thanks for the heads up.

11 posted on 09/23/2024 3:18:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

To: DFG

Check their lunch bags or boxes for missing pets as filets or jerky meat.

12 posted on 09/23/2024 3:19:19 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)

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