A Venezue­lan woman ac­cused of run­ning a hu­man traf­fick­ing ring in Tu­na­puna has been de­nied bail and is ex­pect­ed to re­turn to court in No­vem­ber.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU), 22-year-old Gabrielis Maibelline Periera Mar­tinez was for­mal­ly charged fol­low­ing the ex­e­cu­tion of Op­er­a­tion G-Ride on June 6, 2025.

The op­er­a­tion led to the res­cue of sev­er­al Latin Amer­i­can na­tion­als and the dis­man­tling of what the CTU de­scribed as a ma­jor hu­man traf­fick­ing net­work.

Mar­tinez was charged with:

• Re­ceiv­ing and har­bour­ing a Latin Amer­i­can fe­male for the pur­pose of ex­ploit­ing her through pros­ti­tu­tion

• Un­law­ful­ly and know­ing­ly con­fis­cat­ing iden­ti­fi­ca­tion doc­u­ments for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing

• Cru­el­ty to chil­dren

The mat­ter was heard be­fore Mas­ter Re­han­na Ho­sein, who or­dered that no bail be grant­ed.

It has been ad­journed to No­vem­ber 15, 2025.

The CTU said it con­tin­ues to work along­side part­ner agen­cies to pro­vide sup­port and pro­tec­tion to vic­tims, while en­sur­ing of­fend­ers are pros­e­cut­ed un­der the Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Act, Chap 12:10.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are en­cour­aged to re­port sus­pect­ed cas­es of hu­man traf­fick­ing by call­ing the CTU Hot­line at 800-4CTU (4288).

The CTU as­sures that all re­ports are han­dled with strict con­fi­den­tial­i­ty.