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What happened
Craig Allen Rodgers Age: 34 Originally from California Rodgers, who has previous prostitution-related convictions, is accused of procuring customers via the Internet and traveling with his prostitutes to meet clients in hotel rooms in Charlotte, Covington, Ohio, Albuquerque, N.M. and Nashville, Tenn., the complaint said. A federal criminal complaint alleges that Craig Allen Rodgers transported the woman against her will and used force to make her engage in sexual activity with paying customers. According to court records, Rodgers is originally from California and has several previous prostitution-related convictions. In 2006, he pled guilty in Oklahoma to aiding and abetting in prostitution and using a computer to violate Oklahoma law.
Response and intervention
He was arrested and interviewed by the FBI and federal documents indicate he admitted using multiple websites to solicit customers. He was arrested in the parking lot of the Yorkmont Rd. Extended-Stay Hotel after the Nashville, TN FBI received a tip in regards to a 20-year old woman that Rodger's was prostituting against her will. Nashville, TN authorities contacted Charlotte's FBI Office after they gathered intelligence which showed that Rodgers and 'his girls' were in the Charlotte area. The investigation began when a friend of the woman anonymously called the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Advocates to stop human trafficking say it's rarely the victim who reaches out for help. However, the public is reminded that neither a complaint nor indictment are evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/05/17/Man-charged-in-prostitution-ring/UPI-43531305658123/#ixzz1Mivutks5 http://triad.news14.com/content/local_news/charlotte/641134/human-trafficking-probe-leads-fbi-to-charlotte http://crimeincharlotte.blogspot.com/2011/05/fbis-charlotte-division-arrests-multi.html