A couple forced a laborer to perform a sexual fantasy under the threat of a revolver, then sent photos to his wife

It's a family scene in Phoenix and throughout the country: early in the morning, laborers gather in the parking lot outside Home Depot, hoping to find work. Landscapers, contractors and construction crews visit workplaces and search for the number of people they need, offering a flat rate or low hourly rate for a hard day's work. The configuration is full of abuse and the workers, often immigrants unfamiliar with English, are often losers in operating contracts. Pay stealing is common and workers have become the target of thieves, as they are often reluctant to report crimes to the police..

And, as a worker from the Mexican state of Sonora, he learned last week, Things can go wrong after getting into the truck of a stranger.

Phoenix police reported that a couple had arrested the man under the threat of a gun, had badually badaulted him and then blackmailed him with photos. And they badured that this is not the first time that both are doing this.

On April 8, the man was looking for a job at Home Depot, in the west of Phoenix, when police reported to Brenda Acuna-Aguero, 39, that "I'm in trouble." she had come to pick him up and that she needed help to move some items. inside your house. Once on the woman's ranch, the situation took a strange turn.

The man who The Washington Post he protects his identity because he is a victim of badual badault, then told the police that Acuña-Aguero had started making badual comments by telling him that "it was his fantasy to sleep with a worker". Uncomfortable with the situation, the game first followed. However, Once she realized that she was serious about sleeping with him, he told her that it would not happen.

Then, the woman's husband burst into the room taking a black rifle. Jorge Murrieta-Valenzuela, 45, placed the gun barrel in his chest According to an affidavit from the police, the officer allegedly told him that he would kill him if he did not bad with his wife.

The worker obeyed and Murrieta-Valenzuela took pictures and filmed them with his mobile phone while forcing him to take different positions, the police said. Subsequently, the couple forced the victim to check his phone, to indicate the number of his wife and to call him to make sure he was his wife. Then they confiscated his Mexican visa and his driving license from Sonora, telling him that they were going to keep the documents until his return and that they would have slept with Acuña-Aguero again.

The victim was told to return the next day at 9 am, otherwise the couple would send the photos to their wife in Mexico. where he had bad with Acuña-Aguero, says the affidavit.

They said that they would get Viagra for him and Murrieta-Valenzuela brought it back to Home Depot. However, soon after leaving, he sent a message to the worker on WhatsApp, informing him that he had changed his mind. The man had to go home immediately, he insisted.

Murrieta-Valenzuela allegedly began to threaten him, claiming that he was to come to his home in less than 10 minutes and have bad with Acuña-Aguero, unless he wanted his wife to see the photographs. revealing. The man ignored the apparent attempt to blackmail him. Shortly after, he had heard about his wife: someone had sent him photos of him sleeping with another woman.

A friend finally brought him back to the couple. But Murrieta-Valenzuela, angry that the worker did not come alone, refused to return his visa and driver's license. Finally, the victim called the police.

Investigators quickly determined that the scenario described by the victim was not an isolated event. After obtaining a search warrant for the mobile phone from Murrieta-Valenzuela, they found photos and videos indicating that the couple had "participated in a similar incident" in March, with a victim that the detectives could not identify. During an interview with the police, Murrieta-Valenzuela admitted that the couple had done the same thing at least four times with "other men at random"says the affidavit.

According to the criminal complaint filed in Maricopa County Superior Court on Friday, Murrieta-Valenzuela confirmed all the essential details of the most recent history of the victim and told the detectives that he was "participating in a badual fantasy scenario" with his wife.. The police found on his phone photos and videos that corroborated the worker's account, including photos taken by Murrieta-Valenzuela of the visa and the driver's license of the man.

They also noticed that Acuna-Agüero had a bruise on the upper part of her left thigh and that what appeared to be scars or burn marks in her stomach,or they coincided with what the victim had told them.

At first, Acuña-Aguero claimed that the meeting with the worker was initially consensual. and that her husband had been watching from another room before entering with a rifle and ordering the victim to have bad again with her, this time under the fist. She told the police that she absolutely did not know that Murrieta-Valenzuela had planned to confront the man with a weapon.

But when the detectives told her that they had video evidence of previous encounters suggesting otherwise, she admitted that she had participated in the plan. The rifle was only meant to frighten men, not to hurt them, she insisted.

Acuña-Aguero and Murrieta-Valenzuela face charges of serious crimes of badual badault, aggravated badault and illegal registration of a person and have a surety of less than $ 250,000. Both were court-appointed lawyers, who could not be reached for a comment on Wednesday night.