This Barbie is a intercourse trafficker.
A closely tattooed feminine Tren de Aragua gang member is accused of working a intercourse trafficking operation out of a border city resort the gang took over, in keeping with a leaked Border Patrol memo obtained by The Submit.
Not less than one sufferer alleged Estefania Primera — a Venezuelan unlawful migrant who goes by the road identify “La Barbie” — drugged her and introduced males in to gang rape her whereas she was unconscious, court docket paperwork stated.
Primera was arrested in El Paso, Texas on Sept. 27 after she was noticed together with her younger 5 children, the memo stated.
Authorities say she additionally makes use of her children as drug mules to carry and promote her narcotics, per the memo.
“The Barbie” allegedly operated out of the native Gateway Lodge, which authorities in El Paso not too long ago shut down following a number of complaints about lawlessness.
A intercourse trafficking sufferer allegedly named Primera because the front-woman working prostitutes who have been trafficked into the US, the memo stated.
One sufferer instructed cops that Primera drugged her a number of instances with a tablet containing fentanyl. The medication induced her to go out. When she got here to, she discovered a number of males having intercourse together with her, in keeping with court docket docs.
The girl stated she suffered horrific accidents from the gang rape.
When she tried to flee, “The Barbie” compelled her again to the resort. She additionally repeatedly punched and kicked the girl, the paperwork alleged.
Tren de Aragua members, who’ve largely made their method into the US through the El Paso border, have unfold their felony operations throughout the nation, the place they’ve engaged in gun smuggling, shootings, drug smuggling and intercourse trafficking.
The gang has been discovered working compelled prostitution rings in eight US states, Texas, Nevada, Illinois, California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York, the place they’re on the hook for his or her border smuggling money owed, in keeping with an inner legislation enforcement memo beforehand obtained by The Submit.
Primera was arrested on Sept. 27 exterior the Sacred Coronary heart Church in El Paso, which serves newly arrived migrants. It’s additionally an space the place The Submit beforehand has recognized migrants with Tren de Aragua’s signature gang tattoos.
Primera sports activities tattoos that cowl her face and physique, which she flaunts on her TikTok account “barbie underground official” whereas dancing seductively to Spanish music.
One native resident who requested to be unnamed out of concern of retribution instructed The Submit the world is not protected because of TdA’s presence.
“Earlier than, we might stroll round feeling protected, the place now we don’t really feel protected,” stated the resident, who described seeing an uptick in thefts within the space.
“We don’t attend mass in our neighborhood church as a result of we don’t really feel protected. Our peace and tranquility has been taken away.”
Primera crossed the border illegally with relations close to El Paso in August 2023, and was shortly launched into the US, Homeland Safety sources instructed The Submit.
She instructed Border Patrol brokers she was certain for Illinois and was positioned beneath the supervision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) digital monitoring know-how, per the sources.
Inside weeks of her launch, she ditched the ankle monitor.
She is at the moment being held at an El Paso jail on a $200,000 bond.