By MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE
- Slavery ring raked in more than $200 million in southern GeorgiaÂ
- Two workers died in brutal conditions that saw them picking onions at gunpoint
- Migrants were kept in squalid camps surrounded by electric fencing
- Conspirators accused of raping, kidnapping, threatening to kill the migrants
- Twenty-four members of the crime ring are now facing mail fraud, forced labor, money laundering and witness tampering charges
- Federal officials have been investigating the ring for three years in a probe dubbed ‘Operation Blooming Onion’
A modern-day slavery ring has been busted in Georgia where workers were raped, kidnapped and imprisoned in squalid camps, according to prosecutors.
The crooks raked in more than $200 million by luring in over 100 desperate migrants from Mexico and Central America to the US, a federal indictment says.
At least two people died in the brutal conditions that saw workers forced to handpick onions at gunpoint for just 20 cents per bucket in sweltering heat, and another was repeatedly kidnapped and raped…
