A house owned by a mobster’s wife was a human trafficking hot spot in
a quiet Brighton neighborhood until one eagle-eyed resident dropped the
dime that led to 16 arrests and 10 women being set free, officials
said.
“It was just a matter of kind of being nosy, I guess,”
longtime Brooks Street resident Kenneth Cutler told the Herald about his
alerting police this summer to a house across the street where people
were constantly looking for “massages.”
District 14 Sgt. Shawn Burns was more emphatic about Cutler’s contribution.
“It
cannot be understated that Mr. Cutler’s actions may very well have
saved the lives of these young women,” Burns said yesterday at a City
Council meeting where police and councilors presented Cutler with a
commendation.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Tip Led Cops To Alledged Human Trafficking Hot Spot
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Trucker Accused Of Keeping Women As Sex Slaves Gets 20 Years
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah trucker who pleaded guilty to keeping women as sex slaves in his semi-trailer as he drove across the country was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison.
Timothy Jay Vafeades, 56, sexually assaulted and brutally beat the victims almost daily after trapping them in his truck and forcibly grinding down their teeth, federal prosecutors said.
One woman told a judge that her months-long ordeal began when she got into his truck to go to dinner with him. She started to worry when realized they weren't going toward any restaurants.
"He then said, 'I got you now. You are mine,'" she said. The vampire-obsessed truck driver controlled nearly every aspect of her life, including how she used the bathroom, she said.
MSN reports
Monday, November 7, 2016
Leader of Virginia Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison
A man who was at the center of a
violent trafficking ring that sold women and girls for sex throughout
Virginia has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Michael Maynes Jr., of Spring Lake, North Carolina, led a sex trafficking organization known as "Horse Block Pimpin."
Maynes prostituted 55 women and girls in Alexandria, Richmond and Charlottsville, according to prosecutors.
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Trial Set for Pastor Charged in Teen Sex Trafficking Ring
Formal charges were brought Monday against a South Florida pastor accused of running a sex trafficking ring involving teens.
Ron Cooper, a youth pastor at Good News Baptist Church in Little Haiti, appeared at an arraignment hearing in Miami.
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Topeka Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy In Interstate Sex Trafficking Case
TOPEKA, Kan. (KWCH)
A Topeka man pleaded guilty to conspiring to operate an interstate sex
trafficking business, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said Monday.
Beall said in a news release Barry M. Johnson of Topeka pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
In his plea, Johnson admitted to conspiring with co-defendants to run a Topeka-based prostitution business. The business operated in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, Beall said in the news release.
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Beall said in a news release Barry M. Johnson of Topeka pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
In his plea, Johnson admitted to conspiring with co-defendants to run a Topeka-based prostitution business. The business operated in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, Beall said in the news release.
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Pope Francis Lauds Women Religious In Fight Against Trafficking
Vatican City, Nov 7, 2016 / 05:07 pm
Pope Francis met in Rome with a unique group involved in the fight
against human trafficking, where he noted the particular contributions
of women religious, which often go unnoticed.
“Your activity in this area reminds us,” the Pope said Nov. 7, of ‘the enormous and often silent efforts which have been made for many years by religious congregations, especially women's congregations, to care for those wounded in their dignity and scarred by their experiences.”
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
7 Men Accused in Sex-Trafficking Ring in U.S. and Mexico
Seven men have been indicted on sex trafficking charges in
what federal officials said on Tuesday was an international
organization that exploited adult and underage women for more than a
decade in Mexico and the United States.
Four
of the men — identified as Efrain Granados-Corona, 41; Alan
Romero-Granados, 24; and the brothers Pedro Rojas-Romero, 37, and Emilio
Rojas-Romero, 34 — were arrested in Mexico by the authorities there
last week. Raul Romero-Granados, 32, and Isaac Lomeli-Rivera, 34, were
arrested in the United States, the United States attorney’s office in
Manhattan said. The seventh man, Juan Romero-Granados, brother of Alan,
remained a fugitive.
All seven could face life sentences in federal court in New York on charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
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