Common Sense

But there is a prostitution ring and federal agents and Austin police believe they broke one up after a raid June 29.

Two of the women were from Honduras, and federal investigators said they were brought to the Austin area to turn tricks in a run-down white house between a junkyard and a field just off FM 969.

Where’s the romance, people?

The brothels in eastern Travis County and Oklahoma City were part of a multistate prostitution ring partially broken by federal agents in recent weeks, according to court documents. The brothels used women from Mexico as well as Central and South American countries and catered mostly to undocumented workers, court documents show…

The brothel in Travis County was the second in that area run by the same man, court documents said. Juan Balderas-Orosco, 34, escaped capture when authorities raided the first one four years ago, but he was arrested June 29 and charged with transporting women to engage in prostitution after a yearlong surveillance operation at the second location. Four others face similar charges.

Even Balderas’ wife is being implicated in this story. Apparently, he was smuggling these women into the country and then showing them guns in order to get them to comply. He also moved them from city to city and state to state. If I were half as dedicated as him, I would probably have a girlfriend now. Or my own prostitution ring.

At the Decker Lake Inn, owner Jay Sailors said he did not have a sense of what was going on at the house until about a month ago, when several men came asking for a “special house . . . a house with women.”

“I saw lots of cars coming and going,” Sailors said. “But I’ve never seen any women back there, period. Only men.”

Obviously, it was a brothel. The women aren’t supposed to leave. Do I have to draw you a diagram? Because the only one I have describes sex with box turtles