4 illegal aliens indicted for running prostitution ring 50 others found to be in U.S. illegally during investigation and placed into removal proceedings
PHILADELPHIA - Four men were charged in federal court on Jan. 11 for a conspiracy to run a prostitution ring in the city. As a result of an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Jose Claudio Corona Cotonieto, 27; Raymond Gonzalez Salazar, 31, Nicolas Gonzalez Salazar, 22, and defendant FNU LNU #4, a/k/a "Leonel Rubio," were charged with conspiracy to run a prostitution ring in various locations around South Philadelphia. According to court records, between August 2009 and January 2010, the defendants operated brothels out of residential locations, including 1221 A South 7th St. and 1314 South 6th St. Defendants Cotonieto and Raymond Salazar would arrange for and schedule Hispanic females to travel from New York City to Philadelphia on a Greyhound bus. Once the girls arrived in the city, the defendants would take them to one of the brothel locations to work for a week and returned to the bus terminal where they departed the city.