Texas human trafficking crash leaves two migrants dead, a dozen others injured
The Texas Department of Public Safety said that suspected human trafficker crashed during a police chase in South Texas, leaving two migrants dead.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety is a state agency in the United States that is responsible for law enforcement, public safety, and homeland security. The department works to combat human trafficking by conducting investigations, coordinating with other law enforcement agencies, and providing training and outreach to the public. The department also operates a hotline for reporting suspected trafficking cases and provides support services to trafficking victims, including counseling and assistance with obtaining legal and social services.
Forget drugs. Mexican cartels make more cash trafficking PEOPLE
Forget drugs. Mexico’s cartels make more money trafficking PEOPLE across the border nowadays, using debt bondage to earn $13 billion from migrants’ earnings long after they enter the US, warns Texas ex-lawman Mexican gangs have undergone a ‘tectonic shift’ in operations, says Jaeson Jones Thanks to lax US border security, there’s more money to be made…
Paxton’s Human Trafficking and Transnational Organized Crime Division Helps Secure Punishment for Human Trafficker
Joylette Blanton, 30, of Sherman, Texas, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for Compelling Prostitution of a Minor and Trafficking of a Person, pursuant to a plea agreement with the Grayson County District Attorney’s Office. The Office of the Attorney General’s Human Trafficking and Transnational/Organized Crime (HTTOC) Division, represented by Assistant Attorney General…
What are the signs of human trafficking? – Dallas Morning News
Texas ranks second in the country as the state with the most cases of human trafficking reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Texas Department of Family Protective Services and the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force designated Friday Statewide Human Trafficking Sign Day. The groups are asking Texas businesses to post signs in their…
What are the signs of human trafficking?
Texas ranks second in the country as the state with the most cases of human trafficking reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Texas Department of Family Protective Services and the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force designated Friday Statewide Human Trafficking Sign Day. The groups are asking Texas businesses to post signs in their…
9 human trafficking victims found hiding in Honda Pilot in Valley Mills – KWTX
VALLEY MILLS, Texas (KWTX) – Nine suspected victims of human trafficking were rescued during a traffic stop Saturday evening. A Valley Mills Police officer stopped a 2009 Honda Pilot at around 10 p.m. July 23 for a defective headlight near the Out of Town Ball Fields on State Hwy 6 The vehicle was occupied by…
FBI: El Paso is major human smuggling, kidnapping destination | Texas – The Center Square
(The Center Square) – El Paso, Texas, is a central destination for human smuggling and extortion, the FBI El Paso Field Office warns. The FBI has been issuing warnings and alerts nearly every month this year about kidnapping and extortion crimes occurring in the border town. [Editor’s note: Human smuggling is not human trafficking! They…
Man Sentenced to 30+ Years for Sex Trafficking 14-Year-Old, Adult out of Dallas Hotel – Department of Justice
A Dallas man was sentenced today to more than 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking a 14-year-old minor and an adult victim, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham. A federal jury in Dallas convicted Anthony Lennell Acy, 34, on one count of child sex trafficking and one…
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Youth who ran away from The Refuge and later died allegedly had staff assistance | TPR
Texas Public Radio | By Paul Flahive Published June 3, 2022 at 6:13 PM CDT A new report alleges a treatment facility for victims of sex trafficking may hold some culpability in the death of a girl who stayed there. A young girl identified only as “RR” placed at Bastrop-based “The Refuge” ran away from a…
AG Paxton Announces Verdict Reached in Hunt County Human Trafficking Case
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the jury has reached a verdict in a human trafficking case against Jeffrey Barret in Greenville, Texas. The Hunt County jury found Barret guilty of abusing his 3 adopted children after he subjected them to continuous abuse through isolation and coercion, making the children work at his puppy mill…