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"Tommy Guns" Sentenced to Prison for Human Trafficking and Involuntary Manslaughter
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"Tommy Guns" Sentenced to Prison for Human Trafficking and Involuntary Manslaughter

ByEyes on Trafficking News

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today announced that a Franklin County man has been sentenced to prison for providing a lethal dose of narcotics to a human trafficking victim. “Traffickers exploit vulnerabilities, leveraging addiction to control their victims – evil that will now be restrained by prison bars,” Yost said. Paul Chiles,…

Lancaster County human trafficking task force marks first year with more than two dozen arrests
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Lancaster County human trafficking task force marks first year with more than two dozen arrests

ByEyes on Trafficking News

A year ago, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced the creation of a human trafficking task force to fight commercial sex exploitation. And in that year, the task force made more than two-dozen arrests, focusing almost exclusively on men who buy sex. In the task force’s first sting, more than 100 people responded to…

Montgomery, Berks and Chester counties among leading counties filing human trafficking charges
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Montgomery, Berks and Chester counties among leading counties filing human trafficking charges

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NORRISTOWN — From January 2017 through December 2021, there were 259 human trafficking cases involving a total of 1,096 human trafficking-related offenses filed statewide and Montgomery, Berks and Chester counties were among those counties leading the state in the number of such filings, according to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts. There were 116 human trafficking-related…