NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Five men were arrested in a Connecticut sex trafficking ring bust on Tuesday night where two New York City teens were rescued, authorities said.
The men were arrested after the FBI raided a basement apartment on Chappelle Street in Danbury where a 16-year-old girl from Queens and a 15-year-old girl from Manhattan were found.
The girls were dressed in lingerie when police arrived, officials said.
Oswaldo Ordoñez-Ortega, 39, was charged with two counts of trafficking of persons, two counts of first-degree promoting prostitution, and risk of injury. He is being held on $2,000,000. Four other men were also arrested and accused of paying to have sex with the underage girls.
Marco Robles, Edwin Quilli-Tacuri and Bryan Vasquez-Salinas are accused of having sex with the girls and charged with sexual assault, risk of injury to a child and commercial sex abuse of a minor, WTNH reported. Another man, Stalin Vasquez, was charged with conspiracy to commit commercial sex abuse of a minor.
Ordoñez-Ortega allegedly used an unidentified middleman to contact the two teens and convinced them to travel to the Danbury residence. The girls were then advertised as underage prostitutes, according to police.
The Queens teen told officers she had sex with seven different men between the time she arrived in Connecticut on Monday until Tuesday's police raid and said the men paid Ordoñez-Ortega, who was found with more than $1,300 in cash at the time of his arrest.
The investigation is ongoing.