HUMAN TRAFFICKING WATCH · DISPATCH
Hotel Call Uncovered Omaha Trafficking Ring
Two sentenced; three more await sentencing after Denver-to-Omaha trafficking scheme.
A theft call at an Omaha hotel revealed a trafficking pipeline that moved two teenagers from Denver. Two defendants received lengthy federal sentences; three others face hearings this summer and fall.
A theft call to the AmericInn near 13th and Spring streets in Omaha on January 6 brought patrol officers to a hotel corridor where they encountered two juveniles, ages fifteen and sixteen, during the response. The teenagers were taken to Project Harmony to be interviewed, and the original property complaint quickly gave way to a wider inquiry into how, and by whom, the girls had been moved. By early 2025, authorities had broken up an illicit enterprise centered on a South Omaha hotel, a chain of actions that began with that unremarkable 911 call. The sequence fixed the investigation’s anchor points and set the case on a federal track (KETV, n.d.; Writer, n.d.).
During interviews, investigators learned the two had been transported repeatedly from Denver to Omaha, movements arranged not for their benefit but to market them. Court documents state that Eduardo Jose Perdomo and Alfredo Manuel Zambrano-Hurtado brought the minors to Omaha for commercial sex, obtained a hotel room for them, and placed an advertisement on a commercial website to solicit buyers. The affidavit further reported that half of the proceeds from the girls’ exploitation were taken by Perdomo and Martinez-Gonzalez, and that Martinez-Gonzalez admitted using a phone to communicate with would‑be customers and to collect his share. The logistics were ordinary—rides, rooms, online posts—while the purpose described in the filings was criminal and coordinated (KETV, n.d.).
Tracing the ad, investigators pulled the phone numbers listed on the sex marketplace and dialed them, a controlled step that, according to court records, yielded immediate offers. When officers called, Vishal Goswami, Kavankumar Patel, and Sumit Chaudhari allegedly offered to provide two juvenile girls for sex, tying those phone accounts to people quickly added to the charging matrix. Patel was sentenced in May to ten years in federal prison, while the others advanced toward their hearings, the phone evidence forming a backbone for the case. Methodical steps—numbers, calls, offers—translated internet breadcrumbs into courtroom exhibits (KETV, n.d.).
Sentencing followed this summer. On Monday, July 6, 2026, a federal judge ordered two defendants to serve well over a decade in prison; prosecutors said the pair trafficked two minors through a hotel‑based operation in Omaha. Martinez-Gonzalez received just over sixteen years for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor, with three other counts dismissed; Zambrano-Hurtado received fifteen years for two counts, with two conspiracy charges dismissed, and both must complete five years of supervised release. Notably, outlets differed on the first name recorded for the Martinez-Gonzalez defendant—one report used Michel, another used Daiana, age twenty‑nine—though both accounts described the same role and sentence (KETV, n.d.; Maya, n.d.; Writer, n.d.).
Three co‑defendants still await sentencing, and the case remains active in the docket. Perdomo is scheduled to be sentenced on July 20, Goswami on August 31, and Chaudhari on October 15; the criminal conduct tied to these names occurred between December 2024 and January 2025. If you or someone you know needs help or suspects trafficking, call the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888‑373‑7888 or text 233733. The scheduled dates and the period of conduct remain as set out in filings and law‑enforcement summaries linked to the Omaha investigation (KETV, n.d.).
Locations: Omaha, Mass. and Cass, Project Harmony, Omaha, Denver
Tags: investigation, conviction, federal, online, transport