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Terry Florence is on of 11 men indicted in a trafficking ring uncovered after a missing 17-year-old Missouri girl was rescued in a US Marshals operation in Atlanta. ATLANTA — As the Attorney General‘s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit continues to get indictments on suspects accused of buying and selling victims for sex across metro Atlanta,…
MIDLAND-ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) – On Tuesday May 9, Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division (CID) ran a missing and exploited child operation and found a total of 30 children. The age of youngest child recovered was 13 years of age. Law enforcement’s goal was to find or recover children reported missing in Midland…
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…
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…
WAYCROSS, GA: The leader of a south Georgia fentanyl- and heroin-trafficking operation linked to drug overdose deaths has been sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison. Eric Lashawn Hayes, a/k/a “Pee Wee,” 39, of Blackshear, Ga., was sentenced to 262 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to Possession of a Firearm in…
Attorney General Chris Carr announced the indictment of eight alleged members of the LOTTO gang in Gwinnett County following a major investigation conducted by the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Section. The eight defendants are facing a range of charges, including Trafficking of Persons for Sexual Servitude, Violation of the Street Gang Terrorism and…
Former NFL linebacker Eric Johnson was among eight man indicted Thursday in what’s being called a “major human trafficking gang investigation.” Johnson played for the Oakland Raiders from 2000 to 2003. He spent 2004 with the Atlanta Falcons and 2005 with the Arizona Cardinals. The highlight of the special teams standout’s career came in Super…
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The owner of Magnolia Cleaning Services pleaded guilty to federal fraud and human trafficking charges. George William Evans, 68, entered a guilty plea Tuesday. Three other suspects in the case pleaded not guilty in December. All four defendants were arrested by U.S. Marshals in December on charges of money laundering, forced labor,…
RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) – U.S. Attorney Michael Easley is announcing efforts to combat human trafficking. The office is creating a dedicated human trafficking task force. It is meeting regularly to share intelligence and investigative leads, receive specialized training and develop investigative tools. “It is easy to dismiss human trafficking as a problem that happens only…
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio man was sentenced Thursday to 190 months in prison for conspiring to kidnap and transport an undocumented noncitizen. According to court documents, Rosalio Cano Jr., 22, transported an undocumented noncitizen to multiple locations in or around San Antonio over a five-day period. During this time, co-conspirators were in contact…
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