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ST. LUCIE COUNTY − Daniel Rhodes got women addicted to drugs and dependent on him for their supply so they’d engage in prostitution as he controlled interactions with “buyers” and kept money for himself. At least one person reported being involved in “sex work” for Rhodes for about 13 months beginning in October 2018, and…
Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez and the Florida Highway Patrol recently hosted a roundtable discussion with law enforcement leaders about efforts to combat human trafficking. At the roundtable, law enforcement officers and sheriffs from Citrus, Pasco, Sumter, and Hernando counties joined together to discuss the importance of tracking down human traffickers and holding them accountable for…
State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle announced Thursday the arrest and extradition of an alleged human trafficker that fled to another state after the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the State Attorney’s Human Trafficking Task Force intervened to rescue the victim. “The sad reality is that a modern-day form of slavery does…
The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that JPMorgan Chase “turned a blind eye” to evidence that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used the bank to facilitate sex-trafficking activities on Little St. James, the private island he owned in the territory until his 2019 suicide. In a more than…
MIAMI – Monriko Clements, 31, of Maryland, has been arrested on human trafficking charges after authorities say he brought a woman to Florida only to human traffic her. Clements, a rapper from Maryland, tried to pimp out his girlfriend. The victim is a 23-year-old also from Maryland, and she was desperate to escape Clements. So,…
Daniel Rhodes, 42, is facing multiple felony charges, including manslaughter, in connection with a multi-year human trafficking ring across hotels and motels on the Treasure Coast. Rhodes is currently serving a prison sentence in Trenton for selling methamphetamine and soliciting prostitution. He was scheduled to be released before Christmas, but now he is facing new…
BY JENNIFER CABRERA HIGH SPRINGS, Fla. – Darren Phillip Brown, 24, and Jenipher Lisbet Milan, 25, both from the Miami area, were arrested yesterday in High Springs after allegedly trying to pawn a stolen laptop. Brown and Milan allegedly pawned a computer in High Springs on October 24; the pawn store owner told a High…
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Thelwell was awarded “Prosecutor of the Year” by Attorney General Ashley Moody at the annual Human Trafficking Summit. Lisa Thelwell remembers that August day in 2012 when Chief Assistant Don Horn welcomed her class of 40 new hires — mostly beginning lawyers like her — to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office….
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Tyron Columbia Watson, 39, of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced to life in federal prison for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor under the age of 14. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Watson’s sentence resulted from a three-day…
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — An Indian River County man and a Brevard County woman have been arrested for human trafficking and use of a child in sexual performance. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) arrested Marc Phillip Dinkels, 33, of Vero Beach on two counts of human trafficking and one…
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