Texas woman, 23, admits to drugging migrant kids with melatonin gummies as part of child-trafficking ring: ‘We knocked her out’

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 11:56:13 | Updated at 2024-09-30 21:26:28 5 days ago

Texas woman, 23, admits to drugging migrant kids with melatonin gummies as part of child-trafficking ring: ‘We knocked her out’
nypost.com ^ | September 24, 2024 | Alex Oliveira

Posted on 09/25/2024 4:38:06 AM PDT by lowbridge

A Texas woman has confessed to drugging young girls with melatonin gummies while trafficking them into the US — just as border agents are warning that kids are being smuggled through similar means all across the southern border.

Vanessa Valadez, 23, of Laredo, pleaded guilty Friday to working with family members to smuggle children under the age of 5 into the country from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, between August and September 2023.

“La noquiamos con unas gomitas,” one of Valdez’s co-conspirators wrote in a message alongside an image of a passed out girl during one operation — which translates to “we knocked her out with some gummies.”

Valdez and her family smuggled at least four young girls into the country, according to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), picking them up from a stash house across the border and drugging them before using phony birth certificates to try to pass them off as family members.

After Laredo, the girls were taken deeper into the US and left with unknown people for unknown purposes.

Valdez and her conspirators were finally foiled on Sept. 21, 2023, during a routine inspection by border agents.

Three of the girls smuggled into the US remain unidentified, and their locations are unknown, HSI said in a statement.

Valdez’s co-conspirators were Ana Laura Bryand, 47; and her niece Kayla Marie Bryand, 20; Jose Eduardo Bryand, 43; Nancy Guadalupe Bryand, 44; and 32-year-old Lizeth Esmeralda Bryand Arredondo, of Mexico. Each previously pleaded guilty to their parts in the sick conspiracy.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: illegalimmigration; immigration

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1 posted on 09/25/2024 4:38:06 AM PDT by lowbridge

To: lowbridge

[Vanessa Valadez, 23, of Laredo, pleaded guilty Friday to working with family members to smuggle children under the age of 5 into the country from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, between August and September 2023.]

Just doing the drugging and the smuggling that Americans refuse to do. Right, George W. Bush?

2 posted on 09/25/2024 4:43:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)

To: lowbridge

Women trafficking Women??? We are broken. Shut it down, power it off and restore it to factory settings.
This is what the Bible means by astorge. Even the Republicans support chemical abortion. Women destroying their own.
This is the end. Nothing worth saving here. I hate it that my grandchildren will live in the New Dark Ages.
Heck, we barely blinked when finding out our Universities are purchasing baby parts from planned parenthood- and the baby must be alive to get the ideal liver.
If it cures cancer, Alzheimers and saves the economy, there are apparently no limits as to the horror we vote for.
Chemical abortion dangers are being covered up by the Big Gov Medical Complex. But hey, men supporting mass abortion are definitely the good guys.

3 posted on 09/25/2024 4:47:16 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)

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