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The Ankeny Police Department now has a new partner to help fight child exploitation and human trafficking crimes. Meet Sandy, a 3-year-old old golden retriever Labrador mix. After four months of training, she can sniff out chemicals on electronic devices. That chemical is part of electronic devices like cell phones, laptops, USB drives and SD…
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…
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WBAY) – Human trafficking is a real issue happening across the country, including Wisconsin. However, most people don’t notice it even when it’s happening right in front of them. In all 72 counties of Wisconsin is another world unseen by most with the worst to offer. It’s known as “The Life.” “The Life,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – A grand jury has charged a Newberry County man with multiple charges including felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, human trafficking conspiracy, multiple counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, & coercion, multiple counts of witness tampering. Officials said Eric “E Dolla” Jones has been charged along with his…
HOPEWELL — The terms sex trafficking and human trafficking evoke images of girls or young adult females being sold or “pimped out” by older men. While that can be the case, youth advocates say the issue is far-reaching and falls under the term exploitation, or “sexploitation” — and it does happen locally. “I do think…
A Florida man, along with his wife have been arrested on several charges after inappropriate texts with two juveniles were discovered by Marion County detectives. Dwight Tawan Edwards, 47, was arrested in Stockbridge, Georgia, on a Marion County warrant for six counts of human trafficking and six counts of lewd or lascivious battery on…
MIAMI, Fla. (Gray News) – A human trafficking victim was able to sneak a text to her father on Thanksgiving, alerting him to her location. The 21-year-old woman’s father called the City of Miami …
https://youtu.be/f_zbJDmUniE The 21-year-old was rescued after she was able to text her father on Thanksgiving, which alerted authorities to arrest Kyron Richardson. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Little Rock woman has been rescued after a man was arrested in Miami, Florida for his alleged connection to human trafficking. Law enforcement arrested 29-year-old Kyron Richardson for…
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….
U.S. District Court Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama sentenced defendant Lonnie Mitchell, 36, of Montgomery, Alabama, to 60 years in prison for coercing several victims, including a minor, to engage in prostitution over the course of several years. The judge also ordered the defendant to pay over $950,000 in…
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