Two men charged with running prostitution ring

TYSONS CORNER -- A Montgomery County, Md., man and a Miami man are charged in a federal indictment with running a nationwide prostitution ring that hired immigrant women.

The indictment filed in federal court in Michigan alleges that Michael Porru of Boyds, Md., and Rafael Bernabe-Caballero of Miami set up trysts through the Web site MiamiUltimate.com, and that they initially told the women they would work as escorts. The story was first reported in The Washington Examiner.

The indictment says that the women were later ordered to have their first meetings with clients in Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia and told they were expected to perform sexual acts. The women were sent around the country to work.

The indictment also says Bernabe-Caballero threatened to kill the women or have them handed over to immigration officials if they refused to work.