19 Women Victims Of St. Lucie Human, Sex Trafficking Ring, Police Say

Two men — Airial Johnson (left) and Curtis Travis, both 31 — suspected of human and sex trafficking were arrested Wednesday in St. Lucie County, records show.
 

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For seven months, police watched two men organize a human and sex trafficking ring in the city that relied on befriending women working as prostitutes and getting them addicted to heroin.

That’s how at least 19 women ended up in the human and sex trafficking ring concentrated along Okeechobee Road between Interstate 95 and Florida’s Turnpike, city police said Thursday.

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