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5 Accused of Running an Ice Cream Delivery Ring
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Missouri ? Three Kansas City men and two Russian nationals were charged
in a
U.S. federal court with forcing eight Russian students to deliver ice cream for a local
truck company, U.S. Attorney Bradley Schlozman said Tuesday.
David Carslake, 55, David Mackintosh, 45, and Jeffrey Guinn, 45, all of Kansas City,
and
Yevgeny Filimonov, 20, and Vadim Tokarev, 21, both Russian citizens, were charged in a
criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday after their arrest, Schlozman said in a news
release.
Authorities said the men collaborated to force the students to work for Frosty Treats
ice
cream truck company of Kansas City by telling them they would be seriously harmed if
they
refused. All five are charged with aiding and abetting each other from Jan. 1 to Sept.
17
to obtain forced labor. Schlozman said the case would go before a federal jury.
The eight students from Voronezh were recruited under a summer work program run by the
Russian company
InterAir-(ВГУ????), according to an affidavit filed in support of the case.
Frosty
Treats employee Filimonov allegedly worked in Russia with Tokarev to recruit the
students,
none of whom had been to the United States before and some of whom spoke no English,
Schlozman said.
The students signed employment contracts to get work visas and each borrowed $2,500 to
pay
for the trip, Schlozman said.
Carslake and Mackintosh, the managers of Frosty Treats, are accused of threatening the
students both psychologically and financially once they arrived in Missouri, forcing
them to deliver ice cream. Guinn, the maintenance worker at the complex where the
students
lived, monitored their activities in the apartments, prosecutors maintain.
The students were promised a "financially rewarding summer," but were forced to work 13
hours per day, seven days per week, sometimes for just 87 cents per hour, the
affidavit
said. The defendants forced six of them to live in a one-bedroom apartment, where they
were not allowed to use the telephone, Schlozman said.
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