A man accused of trafficking drugs for a Mexican cartel was convicted of federal kidnapping charges after prosecutors said he abducted a mother and her two daughters, taking them to several U.S. states before Mexico, where he “locked them in” a home and abused them.

Roughly six years later, in 2023, Adolfo Vargas Lepe kidnapped another woman he knew for years from her Wyoming home and took her to Montana, where he used to live, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana.

Now, a federal jury in Billings has found Lepe guilty of three counts of kidnapping and one count of making an interstate threat after a three-day trial, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a June 5 news release.

“Lepe traumatized his kidnapping victims, including physically and sexually assaul

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