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(AP) -- A 31-year-old Mexican man has pleaded guilty in federal court to sex trafficking offenses involving young Mexican women.

U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said Juan Cortes-Meza on Thursday became the third person to plead guilty to sex trafficking under the same investigation.  Also on Thursday, Otto Jaime Larios Perez, a 25-year-old Guatemalan pleaded guilty to making a false statement to law enforcement, obstructing a human trafficking investigation.  Nahmias said that from spring 2006 through June last year Cortes-Meza and others recruited and enticed about 10 young women to come to Atlanta from Mexico to engage in prostitution.

Nahmias said Larios Perez was a driver for the trafficking organization and lied to officers when intercepted with a victim in
his car.

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