Sex Trafficking

13+ hour, 9+ min ago   (244+ words) CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - Eleven suspects face RICO and other charges for running a multi-state retail theft scheme, according to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr. A Chatham County grand jury returned an indictment on Wednesday charging all 11 suspects with violating the…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (236+ words) OAKLAND — A man accused of trafficking a teen girl days after he was released from state prison for attempted pimping has been sentenced to six years and eight months behind bars, court records show, Jordan Townsend, 28, pleaded no contest to…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (215+ words) The owners and the manager of a Cupertino spa were accused of running a brothel, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said on Thursday. The DA’s Office said 46-year-old Ling Wang and 48-year-old Xian Wang of San Jose have…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (158+ words) (Nairobi, Kenya) — Federal prosecutors at the Ministry of Justice have filed 31 criminal charges against six primary suspects involved in an alleged major transnational human trafficking syndicate, following an international police operation led by the Ethiopian Federal Police. The suspects, led…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (369+ words) RIVERSIDE, CA — A Riverside County man was sentenced Friday to nearly 22 years in federal prison for trafficking underage girls for the purpose of prostitution on "Fig," the notorious stretch of Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles known as a haven…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (174+ words) Arrests under prostitution law drop from 69,287 to 7,468 Trade shifts from brothels and red-light districts to online 18% of adult-site ads route users to outside social media Experts urge tracking of platform networks, wider victim support Arrests under South Korea's prostitution punishment…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (280+ words) 17 people were arrested in Washoe County as part of a nationwide human trafficking sting operation. The Human Trafficking Training Center announced results of Operations “Coast to Coast”, a coalition of over 250 law enforcement agencies and organizations including Safe House Project,…...

2+ day, 54+ min ago   (144+ words) Reno Police arrested 17 people are participating in nationwide human trafficking operation KTVN The multi-state operation was conducted from the New Jersey State Police Regional Operations Intelligence center and provided services to 74 adult victims and five juvenile victims. Traffic being turned…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (156+ words) A 55-year-old man has been arrested on charges of trafficking in persons following the rescue of a 21-year-old woman from a brothel in Rondebosch, Cape Town. According to Hawks spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Siyabulela Vukubi, the Friday arrest followed a search-and-seizure…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (211+ words) Per the filing, Epstein “possessed, transported, received, or distributed” CSAM from “countless children” from the 1990s until his death in 2019, keeping the photos in a “modeling book” in a locked safe, in his New York home. Epstein Survivors Sue His Estate,…...