Officers found more than 90 people crammed into a Houston home on Friday, some of them showing symptoms of Covid-19, in what was being investigated as a possible case of human smuggling, the police said. Assistant Chief Daryn Edwards of the Houston Police Department said that the police had received a tip overnight about a possible kidnapping, which led them to a two-story home in southwest Houston. Inside the home, Chief Edwards said, officials found more than 90 people “all huddled together.” Of those inside the home, about five were women and the rest were men. The youngest of those inside the home were in their 20s and the oldest appeared to be in their 30s, Chief Edwards said. “This is obviously not something we see often, but it is disturbing,” the chief said, adding that the scene struck him as “more of a smuggling thing and not a trafficking thing.”

Source: New York Times April 30, 2021 21:22 UTC