Neighbours name & shame desis in US trafficking case | India News

HYDERABAD: Neighbours of a house in a Princeton, Texas, street that is at the centre of an alleged human trafficking racket run by people of Indian origin have put up a poster bearing photographs of four PIOs – including three Telugus – that asks residents to be wary of human traffickers and “forced labour” racketeers in their neighbourhoods.
The poster, which bears the message “Be careful neighbours! Human labour trafficking happened in OUR neighbourhood at the 1000 block of Ginsburg Lane (sic)” and photographs of the four accused – Santosh Katkoori, his wife Dwaraka Gunda, Chandan Dasireddy and Anil Male – was pasted on a wall in a public place in Ginsburg Lane, Princeton.Katkoori and Dwaraka reside in Mattie Grey Lane in Melissa, while Male is a resident of Prosper, a suburb.

The neighbours also reproduced on the poster a Princeton police press note regarding the arrests of the accused. On July 8, the four were charged with human trafficking and second-degree felony and 15 women were rescued from the Ginsburg Lane house. Police are continuing their probe, which began in March.
Local media outlets, quoting the probable cause affidavit filed in court, said Katkoori, Gunda and Dasireddy were mentioned as Indian nationals, while there was no update on Male’s nationality.
As per the arrest warrant, on March 13, a pest control company contacted the Princeton police department after its technician, who went to the Ginsburg Lane home to check on bedbugs, saw suspicious conditions in the house. The technician reported to police that he saw 15 women in the home and that there were only folding tables, suitcases, and an air-mattress. He told cops that there was no other furniture and that all the women were sleeping on the floors.
Following this tip-off, cops, after getting a warrant, arrived to search the home. Police said the search led them to Katkoori’s home in Mattie Grey Lane in Melissa, 17 km from Ginsburg Lane. On March 14, at 3.01 pm, a judge gave the go-ahead to police to search the Katkoori home in Melissa. Local media outlets said Katkoori himself answered when police knocked the door and later referred his attorney Jeremy Rosenthal to the police.