[Stop-traffic] News/US: 4 accused of holding smuggled woman for ransom

[Melanie Orhant]

4 accused of holding smuggled woman for ransom
By Rachel Graves
The Houston Chronicle, October 29, 2003
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2188551

Excerpt:

The FBI arrested four men here on charges of alien smuggling and
hostage-taking after an illegal immigrant in California told police
the men were holding his wife against her will.

Sylvia Panteleon of Guatemala had been held in a north Houston house
for 10 days while the group tried to extort $4,000 from her family,
authorities said.