Man pleads guilty to human slavery

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA - Jose Navarrete, pled guilty to human slavery, Wednesday. The Mexican citizen was accused of harboring aliens, faking an alien registration receipt, a social security card and re-entering the country after he was deported.

According to a federal complaint, Navarrete made Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants sleep in box trucks and shacks in Immokalee. He also charged them for food and showers, and didn’t pay them for work they did on a farm.

Jose Navarrete faces up to 37 years in prison.