A Court proceeding for one of three men accused of multiple felonies, including kidnapping, on April 26, 2018, is scheduled to be held this week.
According to a probable-cause statement, members of multiple law-enforcement agencies arrived at the scene of the reported kidnapping at the Super 8 Motel in Higginsville and arrested the three men, who allegedly held two females against their will; raped and assaulted them; and demanded ransom money.
According to online court documents, 22-year-old Luis Angel Sierra-Vallina, 19-year-old Jaciel Acdala Mendez-Morales and 23-year-old Alain Gaspar Camarillo-Linan have been charged.
Mendez-Morales and Sierra-Vallina are being held on $500,000 and Camarillo-Linan on $750,000 cash-only bond at the Lafayette County Jail.
Each defendant pleaded not guilty on April 30, 2018.
During a hearing on July 15, 2019, Sierra-Vallina, through his attorney, requested a court trial rather than a jury trial. A motion hearing is scheduled for at 9 a.m. on Monday, August 5; and his three-day court trial is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, October 8, at Lafayette County Circuit Court.