Gaby Fernandez Sanchez

Now, we were very used to getting phone calls from his potential photography customers to the house, so I didn't think it was weird.

I said, my father's not home right now, but I'll be more than happy to take a message.

And then the person on the other side of the phone said, does your father take pictures for money?

It was just the way that they phrased the question, right?

Does your father take pictures for money?

I decided to ignore the red flag, and I said yes.

They asked a couple more questions and hung up suddenly.

The second they hung up the phone, I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

When my mom came home from work, she said that dad's flight had arrived, but she hadn't heard from him still.

So I told her about the phone call.

And that's when we really started to freak out.

The hours passed by and we hadn't heard from him.

It was the next day and we finally heard from him.

Turns out he had been detained at Miami International Airport almost overnight and got sent back to Europe the next day.

We were not able to communicate with him at all until he got back to Spain.

And when we did communicate, he told us that he was in the room where the call was made and I was on speakerphone.

Essentially, he heard me say that he was working illegally in the country.

He heard me betray him.

At this point, we're still thinking this is just a legal process.

You know, let's call the lawyer.