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OKLAHOMA CITY — An undercover investigation by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Human Trafficking Unit led to multiple arrests for the sex trafficking of a minor. OBN Spokesman Mark Woodward says the investigation began in early August when OBN received information that an underage female had been trafficked into prostitution in the Oklahoma City area,…
The undercover investigation began last month after the 16-year-old girl at the Community Intervention Center in Oklahoma City said she was a victim of human trafficking. A lot of “bad stuff” had been done to her, she told agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. She said she had been “dogged…
A 42-year-old Long Beach man was arrested and charged with human trafficking and pimping two women, authorities announced Thursday. Darrell Elder was arrested Jan. 31 after a weeklong investigation in Anaheim, according to a news release from the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. Authorities said they contacted a woman believed to be a sex worker…
A Palm Coast man arrested in July during a human trafficking investigation involving children was sentenced to 25 years in Florida State Prison after he pleaded guilty to 26 felony counts. In July, Peter Strickland, 32, was arrested after investigators discovered that Strickland was soliciting sex acts from juvenile girls, who were possibly as young as 13…
An Anza-based Christian college with satellite schools across the world has been the target of a three-year federal investigation triggered by a frantic 911 call to Riverside County authorities from a student who claimed she had not been allowed to leave the campus for months. Homeland Security Investigations, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,…
WACO, Texas (KWTX) – Police arrested Bertin Lopez-Jimenez, 17, charged with four second-degree felony counts of smuggling of persons, after officers received information about suspicious activity in a south Waco neighborhood and later spotted a Chevrolet pickup with defective headlights, and a fake license plate with a sexual slur in Spanish. The arrest was made…
WACO, Texas (KWTX) – Police arrested Bertin Lopez-Jimenez, 17, charged with four second-degree felony counts of smuggling of persons, after officers received information about suspicious activity in a south Waco neighborhood and later spotted a Chevrolet pickup with defective headlights, and a fake license plate with a sexual slur in Spanish, according to a court…
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged a married couple in San Francisco with numerous counts of human labor trafficking after an investigation into the working conditions of their nanny. In a statement released Tuesday, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins wrote that eight charges were filed against Jose Aguila and Lorraine Lim, including several felony counts…
A man arrested in a human-trafficking sting conducted by a tri-county task force in August will serve a minimum of almost eight years in prison after pleading no contest to three felonies in September. Huron County 52nd Circuit Court Judge Gerald M. Prill sentenced Dennis Michael Bales on Monday morning to seven years, 11 months…
A man arrested in a human-trafficking sting conducted by a tri-county task force is headed to prison after entering into a plea agreement with prosecutors. On Aug. 18, Huron County Prosecutor Tim Rutkowski charged Dennis Michael Bales, 66, of Port Huron, with three felony counts stemming from an operation initiated by the Huron County Sheriff’s…
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