BATON ROUGE - Three people were federally indicted for allegedly operating a sex ring out of Nicholson Drive and Aster Street locations, according to federal court documents from the Middle District of Louisiana.

Zaira Lopez-Oliva, Jesus Lopez, and Kirsis Castellanos-Kirington were all indicted Thursday for various sex trafficking charges that took place from August 2024 to October 2025, arrest documents say. Documents also point to Lopez as the ringleader, while the other two assisted.

Detectives say in August 2024, they received a tip of possible human trafficking at a location on Aster Street. Officials also identified a second location on Nicholson Drive and learned of an operation on WhatsApp where the suspected traffickers sent photographs of "scantily clad women of various nationa

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