A federal grand jury in Houston returned a superseding indictment Thursday against Wilmar Rene Duran-Gomez. It accuses the 40-year-old man of conspiracy, money laundering and harboring aliens resulting in the deaths of two Honduran men. Five others also were charged with conspiracy.
A Justice Department statement says illegal immigrants were delivered to a southwest Houston warehouse in November 2006. Some started a fire as cover for an escape attempt that failed.
Prosecutors say Duran and two others beat the immigrants as punishment, two fatally, and Duran had their bodies dumped in a remote vacant lot.
A message to Duran's attorneys was not returned.
