BATON ROUGE — Several people have been arrested by East Baton Rouge Parish deputies in connection with alleged human trafficking operations in Baton Rouge and other parts of Louisiana.

According to deputies, they received a tip in January that a man, later identified as 40-year-old Maurilio Vargas, was trafficking women out of a Holt Avenue apartment. Deputies said they later learned that Vargas' wife, 40-year-old Zabdi Guzman-Diaz, was also involved in the alleged human trafficking operation.

Authorities eventually raided the Holt Avenue apartment, as well as a home on Moticello Boulevard and a Kenner address. Three women were found after the raids, two in Baton Rouge and one in Kenner. An arrest affidavit says that the pair coordinated the operation using WhatsApp, having "clients" exc

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