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Georgia senator used farm labor contractors linked to trafficking case – USA Today
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Georgia senator used farm labor contractors linked to trafficking case – USA Today

Operation Blooming Onion is among the largest criminal prosecutions of labor trafficking of foreign farmworkers. Cogdell Berry Farm hired labor contractors whose Georgia homes were searched, money seized in the investigation. Sen. Russ Goodman, who owns the farm with his father-in-law, said he would investigate the situation. A Georgia state senator running for reelection as a farmer…

Child Sex Trafficker And Producer Of Videos Of Child Sex Abuse Sentenced To 55 Years In Federal Prison
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Child Sex Trafficker And Producer Of Videos Of Child Sex Abuse Sentenced To 55 Years In Federal Prison

Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Mark Manuel Angeles Marino (27, Jacksonville) to 55 years in federal prison for child sex trafficking and the production, receipt, and possession of child sexual abuse material. The court also ordered Marino serve a life term of supervised release and pay $163,500 to victims…

United States Attorney Announces Results Of Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking
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United States Attorney Announces Results Of Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking

Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the results achieved to date by the Middle District of Florida to combat human trafficking. This includes trafficking of minors, forced labor, and sex trafficking of adults by force, fraud, or coercion. During fiscal year 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of…

WATCH: 'Solutionaries: What's Working (and who isn't)' live at 8 p.m. Wednesday
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WATCH: 'Solutionaries: What's Working (and who isn't)' live at 8 p.m. Wednesday

  WATCH “SOLUTIONARIES: WHAT’S WORKING (AND WHO ISN’T)” IN THE YOUTUBE PLAYER BELOW AT 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY: [embedded content] One of the key issues businesses are facing is job retention. How can you keep good employees engaged, enthusiastic and happy? Well, what if your company allowed you to work from anywhere you wanted for an…

Panel happening tonight in Jacksonville to educate the public on human trafficking
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Panel happening tonight in Jacksonville to educate the public on human trafficking

It is an unsettling statistic. Florida ranks third in the United States for reported human trafficking cases according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — * The video above is from a previous story. It is an unsettling statistic. Florida ranks third in the United States for reported human trafficking cases according to…

Rethreaded Hosts Human Trafficking Panel: Education is the Beginning to the End of Human Trafficking
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Rethreaded Hosts Human Trafficking Panel: Education is the Beginning to the End of Human Trafficking

In partnership with First Lady Molly Curry’s Educational Art Legacy Project, Rethreaded is hosting a Human Trafficking Panel entitled “Education is the Beginning to the End of Human Trafficking.” …

Task Force Busts Drug Trafficking Organization Marijuana Grow, Destroys 149k Lbs
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Task Force Busts Drug Trafficking Organization Marijuana Grow, Destroys 149k Lbs

IMET Case 22-14567 RURAL JACKSONVILLE, Ore. – Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) SWAT team responded to a black-market cannabis growing and processing facility early Wednesday morning to assist Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team (IMET) detectives in serving a search warrant. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted due to concerns of forced labor trafficking and substandard living conditions….

Recognizing 2022 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – Jacksonville Progress
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Recognizing 2022 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – Jacksonville Progress

This July 30, Enough Is Enough joins thousands of organizations around the globe in recognizing World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Human trafficking is a heinous crime impacting millions of victims annually. The sex and labor trafficking industry is second only to drug trafficking as the world’s largest criminal industry. Enough Is Enough, whose mission…

Ashley Moody Announces Sentencing of Gang Member Trafficking a Young Girl
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Ashley Moody Announces Sentencing of Gang Member Trafficking a Young Girl

This week, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the sentencing of a known gang member convicted of trafficking a young girl. Moody’s Statewide Prosecutors secured a 13-year prison sentence for Michael Hill after the defendant coerced the teenager to engage in car dates with paying customers and then took a cut of the profit. Hill…