Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
The trafficker is Harrison "Hardbody" Norris, a former professional wrestler. He has two residences in Cartersville, GA. It is known that he has been running prostitution rings in Atlanta, GA since 2001. Norris, with several partners, operated a scheme where they recruited vulnerable women and promised them that they could train to be professional wrestlers. Instead, the women were held captive, physically abused, held in debt, and forced to perform numerous sexual acts against their will. Norris also had several of the women perform domestic work on his house such as painting and laying sod.
Domestic Servitude2008
United States US
Malika Garrett (wife) Russell Garrett (husband) D. William Garrett (father-in-law) Russell is a Forsyth County Deputy Sheriff and William is a Fulton County Magistrate County Judge of Alpharetta, GA. All three reside in Woodstock and all three were responsible for encouraging a female Indian to enter the US and serve as a nanny to Malika and Russell's children. They eventually quit paying her and restricted her from leaving their home. The woman worked up to 16 hours a day. As a means to prevent the woman from leaving and to scare her from leaving, the couple threatened her with jail and deportation and also threatened to spread lies about her character to her family back home in India. After the victim escaped, the couple conspired to spread rumors about the woman through out the community, accused her of theft, reported her illegal status to the authorities and accused her of engaging in terrorist activities.
CSEC2009
United States US
The owner of La Cabana restaurant smuggled women and girls from Central and South America into the US and engaged them in prostitution to repay their smuggling debts, according to documents filed in federal magistrate court in Atlanta. The victims, some as young as 15, allegedly performed sex acts for money in a "sex room" at the restaurant and at the owner's home on Jamie Way in Woodstock. The business operates as a restaurant during the day, but after 10pm it transitions into a "Gentlemen's Club,"