9 Dead In Texas Suspected Human Trafficking Operation After Cops Find Dozens In Sweltering Trailer At Walmart Parking Lot

Nine people were found dead early Sunday inside a sweltering trailer at a Walmart parking lot in southwest San Antonio, and dozens more suffered from heat-related injuries in a suspected human trafficking operation, police and fire officials said.

Police made the tragic discovery after a man managed to get out of the truck and ask a Walmart employee for water, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said. Some of the passengers escaped into a nearby wooded area as police opened the trailer, McManus said.

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3 Nashville Businesses Raided In Prostitution, Money Laundering Investigation

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -
Metro police have raided three businesses that they believe are involved in prostitution and human trafficking.


Police claim the three businesses have been serving as fronts for prostitution for several months.

Officers searched Shine Nails on Elm Hill Pike on Thursday morning. They said when they walked into the store, they caught a man undressed in a back room with a female employee. He was given a misdemeanor citation.

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Missouri Businesses Raided for Alleged Human Trafficking

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – More than a dozen businesses advertising as massage parlors in Springfield were raided as part of a multi-state investigation into human trafficking, Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Thursday.

Hawley and Greene County Prosecutor Daniel Patterson also filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking emergency orders to shut down the businesses. Hawley said young Asian immigrant females are being held against their will for sexual contact with customers under the guise of providing massages.

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Child Sex Trafficking In The US Is Exploding, Govt Admits They Aren’t Stopping It

A recent report on the number of sexually exploited children in Florida gives insight into a horrific world that is often ignored by the media, and that rarely holds millionaires, politicians and even local officials accountable for their involvement.
 
A report from the Florida legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability concluded that the state’s Department of Children and Family (DCF) and its lead agencies “have not resolved issues related to serving commercially sexually exploited children.”

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Woman Rescued, Two Charged With Sex Trafficking In Monroe County Sting

A Tennessee woman was rescued and two people were charged with trafficking her through online sex ads during an undercover sting at a Monroe County motel on Wednesday, according to court records.

Tarkira M. Bell 20, of Richmond, Va., Malik D. Edwards, 39, of Tobyhanna, allegedly met the victim days earlier in Charlottesville, Va., and asked her if she wanted to make money, records show. The victim wanting to get back to Tennessee agreed to go with Bell and Edwards, and they then forced her into prostitution, records show.

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JPSO: Rape Victim's Case Leads To Arrest Of Metairie Human Trafficking Suspect

METAIRIE, LA (WVUE) -
A Metairie man has been arrested for one count of first-degree rape and one count of false imprisonment, and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is urging anyone else who has been victimized to come forward.

On July 9, deputies were dispatched to the 2100 block of Manson Drive in Metairie in what was initially a medical call for a female with a leg injury sustained in a fall.  Deputies determined that the woman was trying to escape a physically abusive relationship, and that she had injured her leg while climbing out of a window to get away from 35-year-old Keston Mimmitt. Mimmitt was initially at the location, but left as the woman was being treated.

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Multiple People Charged After Human Trafficking Sting in the Poconos

SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP -- Ten people are facing charges after police conducted a human trafficking sting in the Poconos.

Officials say that they raided a hotel near Stroudsburg, arresting Malik Edwards, 39, from Tobyhanna and a woman from Richmond, Virginia on charges of human trafficking.

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