Cori Baynes

Five Colom­bian women ap­peared be­fore a San Fer­nan­do mag­is­trate yes­ter­day, charged with en­ter­ing the coun­try il­le­gal­ly. In­grid Pala­cios, 22, Eva Mo­ril­lo, 42, Valelis Vil­lafran­ca, 28, and Kisel Ro­driguez, 26, plead­ed guilty to the of­fence and were each or­dered to pay a fine of $5,000 forth­with or be im­pris­oned for one year. Lil­ia Oliv­eros, 30, who, in ad­di­tion to en­ter­ing the coun­try il­le­gal­ly, was charged with pos­ses­sion of a tam­pered pass­port, was fined $10,000 or two years in prison. When Mag­is­trate Ali­cia Chankar asked the women what they were do­ing in Trinidad, they each said they were pros­ti­tutes. The women were held on Oc­to­ber 15, af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers raid­ed the Clas­sic Sea­men Bar in Mara­bel­la, which was for­mer­ly known as the Vil­la Capri Ho­tel.