Sex TraffickingArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2007)

A sex trafficking case from 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

From April to December 2007, Craig Kraft and Liqing Liu operated a prostitution business. The location changed constantly which included motels in Bloomington, Golden Valley, Plymouth, and Minneapolis. The office for the business was located in St. Louis Park. Women were rotated to work in the brothel, and Liu arranged for the victims to travel to MN from California, New York, and Texas.

Response and intervention

Kraft and Liu pleaded guilty to conspiracy. The case was investigated by ICE agents, as well as the Bloomington, Minneapolis, Plymouth, St. Louis Park, and St. Paul police departments. ICE received an anonymous letter on August 8, 2007 which outlined a prostitution operation involving Chinese women, saying that women were brought in every two to three weeks, then rotated out of Minnesota.

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CSEC2008

Minneapolis, United States, 2008

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CSEC2011

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 2011

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Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016