Houston Chronicle. Houston.
The Houston caller told the woman to send $7,000 if she wanted to see her brother alive.
Ilsia Mazariegos-Salazar was not just afraid but bewildered since she had already paid human traffickers in Guatemala $8,500 to shuttle her brother Migdael across two international borders last summer. Now the smugglers were demanding an additional fee, according to the caller, known as El Sobrino, The Nephew.
