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Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our April 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this April consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Mary Ann Contreras, RN with JPS Health Network. Mary Ann discussed the intersection between intimate partner violence and trafficking. Here is the…
Survivors of human trafficking would receive enhanced support and more resources would be authorized for law enforcement combating these crimes under a bipartisan, bicameral bill introduced on Tuesday by U.S. Reps. Dave Joyce (R-OH) and Ann Wagner (R-MO). The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act, H.R. 1405, would establish within Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) the Investigators Maintain…
1. Introduction The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) was introduced in 2000, defining sex and labor trafficking and creating criminal statutes to facilitate investigations, prosecutions, and provide victim services in the United States [1]. Despite the TVPA, most local law enforcement agencies required years to begin investigating street level prostitution and residential brothels as potential…
BOSTON – The owner of Stash’s Pizza was arrested this morning on forced labor charges for allegedly employing a victim who lacked immigration status and forcing him to work for years while threatening him with deportation and subjecting him to repeated verbal and physical abuse. Stavros Papantoniadis, a/k/a “Steve Papantoniadis,” 47, of Westwood, was…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security joined the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday to announce the first ever extraditions from Guatemala to the United States on charges of human smuggling resulting in death, and the first Guatemalan human smuggling extraditions to the United States of any kind in nearly five years. This announcement…
Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, a 15-count indictment was unsealed charging David M. Amin (D. Amin) and Bryce K. Amin (B. Amin), who are brothers, with sex trafficking by force, interstate prostitution, and distribution and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and cocaine base. As alleged in…
HOUSTON — A Houston man pleaded guilty to several sex trafficking crimes and possession of child pornography Feb. 27 following a Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and the Houston Police Department. A judge in the Southern District of Texas convicted Edgar Botello, 30,…
HOUSTON – A 30-year-old man who resided in Houston has pleaded guilty to several sex trafficking crimes and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Edgar Botello admitted to sex trafficking with force, fraud or coercion and conspiracy to do so as well as possession of child pornography. “Sex traffickers prey on…
SEATAC, Wash. – Homeland Security agents rescued nine victims of a sex trafficking operation near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport early February. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative armed of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, identified several commercial sex trafficking victims and suspects through an undercover operation with the King County Sheriff’s Office, City of…
SOUTH FLORIDA – Human trafficking in Florida continues to be a problem. South Florida Caribbean News caught up with internationally renowned and respected Human Trafficking (HT) advocate Victor B. Williams. He is the Founder of Quest2freedom (Q2F™), an Anti-Human Trafficking organization dedicated to defeating the global issues surrounding human trafficking through a holistic approach to…
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