Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Polk County, Florida, continues to be one of the worst offenders for sham efforts to combat human trafficking. 47 Sex Workers and 96 Clients Arrested in Florida 'Human Trafficking' Sting (opinion ...
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office's human trafficking unit was created in June 2021. Since then, it has arrested 604 people and charged 36 with human trafficking-related charges .
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WFLA) — Twenty-one women from 12 different Asian massage parlors were arrested for prostitution-related offenses, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.
After California and New York, Florida has the most human trafficking cases in the United States. [1] Florida has had cases of sex trafficking, domestic servitude, and forced labor. [2] Florida has a large agricultural economy and a large immigrant population, which has made it a prime environment for forced labor, [2] particularly in the ...
Operation Sandshaker was a three-year investigation, between 2000 and 2003 in Pensacola, Florida that resulted in the arrest of more than thirty residents, many of them respected individuals within the community. [1] The individuals were suspected in trafficking cocaine from Miami into the Pensacola area.
Authorities have arrested 108 people, including alleged child sexual predators and those seeking prostitutes, in a six-day undercover human trafficking operation in Florida. Among those taken into ...
The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons was established in October 2001 as a result of the passing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.This enabling legislation required the President to create a bureau within the State Department to specifically address human trafficking and exploitation on all levels and to take legal action against perpetrators.
Under a bill Gov. Ron DeSantis signed May 13, you won't see an 18-, 19- or 20-year-old stripper in Florida after July 1. Gov. DeSantis signs bill raising age to strip in Florida, combats human ...