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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on September 9, 2022 GREGORY MASSEY, age 28, and PATRICIA HART, age 24, were charged in an 11-count indictment by a federal grand jury for violations of the Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, specifically, conspiracy to entice individuals to travel in interstate commerce…
COLUMBUS, Ohio – All 11 defendants charged federally in a Scioto County child sex trafficking operation have been convicted. A federal grand jury originally indicted Larry Dean Porter, 71, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, and several of his family members and associates in June 2020. Porter exchanged drugs obtained in Columbus and elsewhere for sexual access to…
JACKSON, Tenn. — Human trafficking is a global crime that has emerged in Tennessee. We sat down with officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to discuss a rising crime affecting children. They say when you think of human trafficking, you must think about the vulnerable. “That is why they’re victimized. And the vulnerabilities run…
SAN ANTONIO – A sting operation targeting prostitution and human trafficking resulted in the arrests of 61 people in four counties. The arrests were made from June 13 to June 24 in Operation “Share the Wealth,” the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Nine suspects were arrested in Kerr County, 12 in…
July 1, 2022 A two-day long sting operation in June led to eight arrests in Grand Traverse County, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday morning. It’s being dubbed as Operation “TC Safe” – a two-day undercover sting operation aimed at getting sexual predators off the streets. “We were able to partner with the…
Human trafficking, unfortunately, remains an issue in the United States of America. A new task force has begun to combat it in the gambling industry with the release of an AGA human trafficking guide. The document lists ways that members of the American Gaming Association can identify, prevent, and report human trafficking in their operations….
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Anthony Jones, 38, of Wilmington, DE, was sentenced to 21 years in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $15,160 in restitution to his victims by United States District Court Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro for his role in a sex…
PITTSBURGH – A former resident of Alabama, who was living in Pittsburgh at the time of the offenses, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years’ imprisonment on his conviction of sex trafficking crimes, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. United States District Judge Christy Criswell Wiegand imposed the sentence on Anthony Juskowich,…
PITTSBURGH, PA — A man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a woman from Kensington, Maryland, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to sex trafficking, announced United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung. The five-count Indictment, returned on May 19 and recently unsealed, named Philip Walker, a/k/a Phillip Walker, a/k/a Sean,…
A 10-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Somorie Moses, also known as “Somorie Barfield,” “Sugar Bear,” “Bear” and “Daddy,” with the 2017 murder of one woman, Leondra Foster, and with sex trafficking eight women. This indictment is believed to be the first use of the federal statute criminalizing murder in…
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