Florida man and woman arrested on charges of trafficking 2 Cuban women

A man and woman are facing charges after police said they smuggled Cuban women into the United States and then forced them into prostitution in Miami-Dade.

Vicenta Polanco, 30, and Luis Ariel Escalante, 24, were arrested Tuesday on human trafficking and prostitution charges, Miami-Dade jail records showed.

The charges stem from the accounts of two women who said they had been forced to prostitute themselves at the direction of Polanco and Escalante, police said.

According to arrest reports, one victim said Polanco and Escalante visited her in Cuba and offered to pay to smuggle her to the U.S., telling her they’d pay her to be an exotic dancer at an adult entertainment club.