THE MONTH of fright is underway, which means half the city is doing its best to give me a heart attack.
Between massive spider webs stretched across driveways and skeletons
dancing in trees, it’s really starting to look like Creep Town around
here, which is excellent.
I do so love Savannah’s early enthusiasm for Halloween, even if I’m
kind of afraid to walk the dog past the nice yellow bungalow on the
corner that’s been transformed into the Shrieking Shack.
Regrettably, there’s a lot more to be scared of in real life than any moaning goblin yard decoration.
We’ve got masked shooters on the loose, multiple government agencies
haunted by scandal and some seriously misguided mad science about to go
down on Elba Island.
Even deeper into the darkness looms a human trafficking industry that’s harder to get a handle on than a zombie on flakka.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Wife now arrested in human trafficking investigation
WATERLOO – A second person has been
arrested in connection with the investigation into two Chicago teens who
were brought to Waterloo for prostitution.
Waterloo
police arrested Sade Deseri Campbell, also known as Sade VanArsdale,
24, on Wednesday night for two counts of human trafficking and two
counts of using a juvenile to commit an offense. Her bond was set at
$40,000.
Sade Campbell is the
wife of Lawrence Edward Campbell Jr., 35, who was arrested on the same
charges on Tuesday morning. He remained at the Black Hawk County Jail as
of Wednesday night.
Read more from The Courier
Read more from The Courier
Sunday, August 28, 2016
2 In Davidson County Charged With Human Trafficking
Celenia Pauline Gracelynn Bennett, 20, and Ashley Shane Upchurch, 25, both of Thomasville
Two Davidson County residents have been jailed under bonds totaling millions of dollars on charges of human trafficking.
Celenia Pauline Gracelynn Bennett, 20, and Ashley Shane Upchurch, 25, were arrested after authorities executed a search warrant at the pair's Thomasville home, WGHP reports.
THOMASVILLE, N.C. --
Celenia Pauline Gracelynn Bennett, 20, and Ashley Shane Upchurch, 25, were arrested after authorities executed a search warrant at the pair's Thomasville home, WGHP reports.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
San Diego Sex Trafficking Industry Worth $800m Annually, Federal Report Finds
A federal report on sex trafficking in San Diego has revealed a vast underground industry worth more than $800m annually, eight times higher than previously estimated.
The report, considered the best measure of the problem’s scope to date, has shocked researchers and law enforcement officers in the region.
“I didn’t realize the amount of money involved,” said Bill Gore, the San Diego County sheriff.
Sex trafficking, defined as the trade in which someone has been forced, coerced or tricked into prostitution, involves some 110 gangs just in San Diego County, dubbed one of 13 hot spots for child sex trafficking in the US by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“This is a beautiful town with an ugly truth,” said Summer Stephan, the county’s chief deputy district attorney.
Read more from The Guardian
The report, considered the best measure of the problem’s scope to date, has shocked researchers and law enforcement officers in the region.
“I didn’t realize the amount of money involved,” said Bill Gore, the San Diego County sheriff.
Sex trafficking, defined as the trade in which someone has been forced, coerced or tricked into prostitution, involves some 110 gangs just in San Diego County, dubbed one of 13 hot spots for child sex trafficking in the US by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“This is a beautiful town with an ugly truth,” said Summer Stephan, the county’s chief deputy district attorney.
Read more from The Guardian
Gov. Nixon Signs Bill To Combat Human Trafficking, Expands Penalties For Predators
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City and Missouri have become hubs for human trafficking.
In an effort to combat this “under-reported crime,” Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a bill into law Wednesday in Kansas City to expand penalties for sex trafficking and protect victims.
“We tend to think of trafficking as something that happens in the distant, undeveloped countries,” said Nixon during a press conference in Kansas City. “But the tragic reality is that is happens here in the United States. Human trafficking is a real and growing problem.”
In an effort to combat this “under-reported crime,” Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a bill into law Wednesday in Kansas City to expand penalties for sex trafficking and protect victims.
“We tend to think of trafficking as something that happens in the distant, undeveloped countries,” said Nixon during a press conference in Kansas City. “But the tragic reality is that is happens here in the United States. Human trafficking is a real and growing problem.”
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Two Tennessee Pastors Arrested In Sex Trafficking Sting
Jason Kennedy, 46 (INSET, bottom left), served as a children's minister at Grace Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., while Zubin Parakh, 32 (INSET- top left and main) is no longer listed as "Creative Pastor" at Life House Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Christian Post) — Two pastors left their churches in shock after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Friday that they were among 32 men arrested for patronizing prostitution and human trafficking charges.
The pastors, Jason Kennedy, 46, who served as a children's minister at Grace Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, has since been fired, while Zubin Parakh, 32, is no longer listed as creative pastor at Life House Church in Oak Ridge. He can be seen ministering in this video.
The Christian Examiner reports
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Ex-Judicial Marshal Accused Of Sex Trafficking Must Decide On Plea Deal
Former Waterbury judicial marshal Michael A. Connelly, accused of promoting prostitution and human trafficking while
posing as a law enforcement officer, must decide by Thursday whether to
take a plea bargain that would send him to prison for one year.
If he agrees to the deal, the prosecutor in the case will have done something only one other prosecutor has done in Connecticut – win a conviction under the state's 10-year-old anti-human trafficking law, a law that has come under fire in recent weeks when questions about its lack of use were raised at the state Capitol.
Prosecutor Susan W. Hatfield of the Office of the Chief State's Attorney made the offer last month to Connelly, an employee of the state for three decades and the brother of former longtime Waterbury state's attorney John Connelly, who died in 2012.
Read more from CTNOW
If he agrees to the deal, the prosecutor in the case will have done something only one other prosecutor has done in Connecticut – win a conviction under the state's 10-year-old anti-human trafficking law, a law that has come under fire in recent weeks when questions about its lack of use were raised at the state Capitol.
Prosecutor Susan W. Hatfield of the Office of the Chief State's Attorney made the offer last month to Connelly, an employee of the state for three decades and the brother of former longtime Waterbury state's attorney John Connelly, who died in 2012.
Read more from CTNOW
LPD Arrest 2 In Human-Trafficking Incident
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Two men were arrested in Lafayette following an investigation in a human-trafficking case.
Lafayette police were called to a reported disturbance Saturday on the 2700 block of Underwood Street. During the investigation, officers said a victim of human-trafficking was found.
Two days later, Lafayette police arrested two out-of-town men allegedly connected to the case.
Read more from WISHTV
Lafayette police were called to a reported disturbance Saturday on the 2700 block of Underwood Street. During the investigation, officers said a victim of human-trafficking was found.
Two days later, Lafayette police arrested two out-of-town men allegedly connected to the case.
Read more from WISHTV
Alamance County Sheriff Says 4 Girls Missing In Human Trafficking Investigation
ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. — Sheriff Terry Johnson says investigators are looking for four juvenile girls in connection with a possible human trafficking case.
Two people were arrested last week in connection with an ineligible student-athlete from Nigeria playing for Eastern Alamance High School and Johnson said Tuesday he thinks it is part of a bigger human trafficking operation.
Read more from FoxNews North Carolina
Two people were arrested last week in connection with an ineligible student-athlete from Nigeria playing for Eastern Alamance High School and Johnson said Tuesday he thinks it is part of a bigger human trafficking operation.
Read more from FoxNews North Carolina
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
A Florida Man Indicted for Operating Sex Trafficking Enterprise
By: Department of Justice
May 11, 2016
WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Jason Cooper, 46, of Miami Beach, Florida, was charged late yesterday in an 11-count indictment in the Southern District of Florida with sex trafficking and attempted sex trafficking by fraud, wire fraud, importation of aliens for prostitution or immoral purposes and use of a facility of interstate commerce to operate a prostitution enterprise.
Read more from WCTV
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Human Trafficking Raid Detains 4 In Wichita Falls, Texas
(Image courtesy: Josh Sharp)
Wichita Falls Police and officials with Homeland Security served a
warrant on Wednesday to a home in the 2600 block of 9th Street in
connection a human trafficking investigation.
Read more from News channel 6 KAUZ
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