Bar Code: Gang

Bar Codes Dept: Police are calling the gang the bar code pimps. Officers freed one 19-year-old woman who had been beaten, held against her will and tattooed with a bar code and an amount of money 2,000 $2,650 which investigators believe was the debt the gang wished to extort before releasing her, according to The Star. All those arrested were of Romanian nationality and had forced the women to hand over part of their earnings, the statement said and mADRID Spanish police arrested 22 suspected pimps who allegedly used violence to force women into prostitution and tattooed them with bar codes as a sign of ownership, officials said Saturday. The woman had also been whipped, chained to a radiator and had her hair and eyebrows shaved off, according to an Interior Ministry statement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.