FBI Looks For Possible Victims Of Westchester Sex Trafficking Ring

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — Law Enforcement is hoping possible victims of a sex trafficking ring in Westchester County will step forward.

The FBI Westchester County Safe Streets Task Force, the Greenburgh Police Department and the Westchester County Police Department are seeking any possible victims in a human trafficking investigation in which it is believed that hundreds of women may have been victimized.

Investigators arrested Ysenni Gomez on August 12, and charged her with sex trafficking in Westchester County and the Bronx, according to federal officials.

Gomez posted an online ad searching for waitresses to work at a restaurant in Manhattan, but the job wasn't what it seemed, according to an FBI agent's account in a federal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York. Gomez interviewed a woman who responded to the ad and told her she had the job, but on the victim’s first day, Gomez told her there was no waitress position and forced her into having sex with men by threatening to call federal authorities to have her deported, federal investigators said. During the investigation, FBI agents report discovering more than 1,600 ads associated with Gomez promoting prostitution, dating back 10 years, using Facebook, Bedpage.com and MegaPersonals.com.

Gomez is known to go by the aliases Carolina and Ysenni Peguero, and could possibly have used the business name “Chicas Express” in the ads she placed, investigators said.

Anyone with information about Gomez, or anyone who may have been a victim is asked to call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.