Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
Timothy Lee, 42, and son Charles Lee, 24 of Arizona were arrested at a hotel south of downtown Nashville and charged with trafficking women in sexual servitude .The victims were a 20 year old from Texas,who was picked up at a bus station and held against her will, a 22 year old woman from Las Vegas and two sisters, ages 22 and 18, from Denver. Detectives later found three of the women advertised in the erotic services sections of three Internet sites. One of the women told police that she had been traveling with the men for the past few years and was not allowed to leave them. The Texas woman was approached with a job offer at a bus station.The women were sold for prostitution in Colorado, California and Idaho as well as Tennessee.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
The State Attorney's office and Orange county sheriff's office resulted in both traffickers being charged
CSEC2009
United States US
A 15-year-old Orange County girl who ran away from home after an argument with her mother was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to turn tricks for her kidnappers for 21 days. The records show the girl ran away after an argument with her mom and quickly agreed to come home; however, as she walked home and passed the Silver Oaks Apartments at Silver Star Road and Powers Drive, a man forced her into a van at gunpoint, reports show. Aleisea N. Smith, 22, and Timothy L. Smith, 39, are accused of kidnapping a 15 year old teen at gunpoint and demanding she turn tricks for them. They remain at the Orange County Jail without bail. Oakland police learned Smith's identity and discovered an outstanding warrant while investigating her for an unrelated incident. She was in court Thursday to face new charges of child neglect and providing false information to police in that other case. Timothy L. Smith already was in jail in an unrelated child-support case when he was charged in the 2007 case, records show. He faces nine counts, including sex trafficking, kidnapping and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
CSEC2009
United States US
Ramon Lopez-Montanez, 39. Origionally from Salem. One of four Lopez-Montanez brothers that operated a big trafficking ring. The victim, Mayra Martina Hernandez-Vargas (15 at time of caputre) was approached by Montanez at her coffee shop in Guadalajara where she worked. He invited her to a party, she got permission from her grandmother, and got in his car. She was taken to a brothel and traveled to LA, Northern California, and finally OR where she tended to the brothers marijuana fields. He was growing marijuana in Otis and Salem, OR.
Domestic Servitude2009
United States US
The case information is provided through Lornet Turnbull's Seattle Times article "Pair Accused of Smuggling, Enslaving Illegal Immigrants," which was published on 11/27/09. The traffickers are Pacific couple Maria Bartola Santos-Gonzalez, 63, and Juan Gonzalez-Guerra, 55. Their son also has probable links to their operation. Between October 2006 and August 2007, the couple smuggled illegal immigrants to Pacific from Aguascalientes, Mexico for $3000-$3500 each. There are eight identified victims, including an eight-year-old girl who alleges that Gonzalez-Guerra sexually molested her, and her seven-year-old brother, who alleges that Santos-Gonzalez physically abused him. Some worked as domestic servants while others, through phony work permits, worked in jobs in construction and agriculture. Most were forced to live in a 20x25foot detached two-car garage. They were limited to two meals per day, and the refrigerator was locked in the interim. They were coerced to remain in their trafficking situation by threats: "The couple threatened to 'cut out their tongues' if they told anyone about what happened." They also "told the immigrants the police wouldn't listen to them anyway because they were undocumented."
CSEC2009
United States US
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott & a concerted effort between multiple law enforcement organizations including Pasadena Independent School District Police Department and the FBI. Three-count indictment was returned under seal by a Houston grand jury on 7/8/09 and unsealed 7/23/09 following Davis' arrest. The indictment also seeks to forfeit Davis' interest in a 2002 Mercedez Benz, a laptop, flashdrives, photographs and paperwork.
Domestic Servitude2009
United States US
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement A Mexican housekeeper claims a married couple paid coyotes to smuggle her into the United States, then held her captive for 6 years and put her to forced labor for more than 100 hours a week in their home. She seeks damages of $125,800 in back wages, and punitive damages for slavery.
Child Labor2009
United States US
Daniel Cortez and Jonquell Jones . Cortez, 19, and Jones, 22, are suspected of preying on six juveniles and one adult, mostly girls between 15 and 17, primarily in west Phoenix since 2006. They were the latest of a handful of men, including two school employees, arrested this month in separate cases on suspicion of targeting juveniles for sex.
Bonded Labor2009
United States US
Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan living in Mission; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek Abdoollayev, 27, citizens of Uzbekistan living in Kansas City; Viorel Simon, 27, Alexandru Frumasache , 23, citizens of Moldova living in Kansas City, Kan.; Kristin Dougherty, 49, of Ellisville, Mo.; Andrew Cole, 53, of St. Charles, Mo.; Abdukakhar Azizkhodjaev, 49, a citizen of Uzbekistan living in Panama City, Fla.; and Sandjar Agzamov, 27, and Jakhongir Kakhkharov, 29, citizens of Uzbekistan who recently left the United States
CSEC2009
United States US
17-year-old Jazmine Finley. the former Carl Hayden High School student worked as a prostitute and recruited and pandered girls as young as 14.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
Police had received reports from neighboring businesses, legitimate masseuses, and a local woman about the J Spa. It featured Asian women in bikini tops and miniskirts offering full-body rub-downs and a range of sexual services for $100-130. The employees lived at the massage parlor, and it was open till 2am. It was noted that local men, aged 40-85, were visiting the spa around the clock. The police set up a bust, but the spa was empty. One "employee" was charged with prostitution. She was taken to jail and released on cash bond the next day.
Domestic Servitude2009
United States US
The victim was trafficked from Guatemala to Mexico to the United States by her own half-sister. She worked for her in her home and also for a food processing plant called Fresh Del Monte Produce. She was 17.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
Donnico T. Johnson, 37., and co-defendent Lisa Miles, 30. Portlanders. Johnson is being charged with sex trafficking, trasportation of a minor and coercion, and enticement of the girl.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
The case was brought on by the Oregon Human Trafficking Task Force. It was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Tigard Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kemp L. Strickland is prosecuting the case for the U.S. Attorney Office of Oregon. Jackson was arrested 5/11 and a jury trial is set for 8/11/09.
CSEC2009
United States US
8 adult males were using underage girls in a sex operation. The girls were being moved from 5 different metro area locations. The locations could not be specified because the case is on-going. Investigation also found truck drivers transporting women, however, it is unclear if the women were trafficking victims or prostitutes. It is also unclear if the truck drivers were johns or traffickers.
CSEC2009
United States US
"For decades Portsmouth’s secret was an evolving red light district on the waterfront. Famous worldwide, locals talked about it in whispers. But in 1912 a 14-year old girl briefly told reporters about her abduction to a local brothel by an older woman. Although Portsmouth, NH had a thriving “combat zone”at the turn of the 20th century, it remained a hush-hush topic in the local media. Brothels on Water Street (now Marcy) in what is now the city’s gentrified waterfront were simply referred to in print as "houses." Female prostitutes, often underage, were called "inmates" according to one news report, or simply "women." The most explicit phrase of the era used in newspapers was "house of ill repute." Despite attempts to clean up the corrupt area in the Victorian era, local police conspired with bordello* and illegal bar owners to keep the red light district open and profitable. Police who attempted to clean up the area sometimes met a violent response. In 1912 a series of murders drew public attention to the situation in the South End and led to the closing of most houses of ill repute. During that summer a rare interview with a 14-year old girl appeared on the front page of a Portsmouth newspaper. Ethel Duffy was kidnapped while staying with friends in Dover, apparently drugged and brought to a Portsmouth bordello. Constance Perry, 25, her abductor, was held on $5,000 bail for what reporters called "white slavery.” Unable to place Duffy in a local bordello, Perry chose to solicit men on the Portsmouth streets who "assaulted" the girl as she stayed with Perry in a room on Deer Street. Police arrested two men who had reportedly paid Perry for access to the girl who was in "a pitiful condition" when she was brought to the police station. Ethel Duffy herself was held on a $500 bond to keep her available as a witness against Perry. Duffy’s published account, apparently in her own words, offers a rare glimpse inside the city’s flesh trade." From the Human Trafficking in New Hampshire Report issued by the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
65 year old Author of "The International Who's Who of Chefs 2004-2005" Joseph Yannai surrendered himself to police authorities may 18, 2009 after allegations of human trafficking and sexual abuse. He promissed to pay the girls $2000.00 a month to work for him, and have housing elsewhere, also receiving $20,000.00 at the end of the year. The girls realized very quickly something was not right. Their e-mails were monitered, they did not get any spending money, and there were pictures of Joseph having sex with other women up to six or seven who are believed to be victims. There are allegations that these women were forced to do manual labour for Joseph as well as being forced into sexual acts with Joseph.
CSEC2009
United States US
Valente Chavez Sanchez,23; Melania "Maritza" Corcino,43; and Jose Altagracia Deleon Corcino,25, operated a sex trafficking ring between 1997 and August 2004 in Raleigh, Fuquay-Varina, and Lillington, North Carolina. They trafficked the women and at least one 14 yr. old minor from New York, New Jersey and Maryland. Sanchez arranged the transportation of prostitutes from NY, NJ and MD. "The women typically would work a week in a brothel in Raleigh or Durham and then be exchanged for other out-of-state prostitutes. The price Sanchez paid for each new prostitute was $130"(N&O). Women were kept "under lock and key" and were not allowed to quit. "Where the minor was found, there were armed guards at the house," Rangarajan said. Corcino "was barking orders and even offered her service [to investigators]"(N&O). N&O, "Brothel Workers Enslaved," - http://www.newsobserver.com/news/sheehan/2005/story/369695.html N&O, "Three Accused of Operating Brothels," - http://www.newsobserver.com/news/wake/raleigh/story/351559.html N&O, "Woman Sentenced in Brothel Case," - http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1090025.html ABC 11, "Uncovering Secret Brothels," - http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news&id=3924744 News 14, "Raleigh Man Pleads Guilty to child sex trafficking," - http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=78154
Forced Criminality2009
United States US
Article Text: "Rockingham County, NC -- Investigators arrested a man they say kidnapped a woman and refused to let her leave. Rockingham County Sheriff's Department says 46-year-old Wendy Autwell told them she was held against her will for three months at a home in Stoneville. Autwell says Larry McIntyre threatened her life and the lives of her children and grandchildren. The arrest warrant says Autwell was "held as a hostage, terrorized and held in involuntary servitude." Deputies arrested McIntyre and charged him with First Degree Kidnapping. He was placed on a $500,000 bond and an additional $10,000 for a Probation Violation." Original Article Link: http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=130675&catid=57
CSEC2009
United States US
Federal prosecutors said Byron Thompson, 25, and Lea Bell, 29, both of Reisterstown,were sentenced to 10 years in prison for the sex trafficking of minors in Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C. The men were also ordered at sentencing Thursday to register as sex offenders. According to court documents, Thompson and Bell recruited minors to engage in commercial sex acts. They rented more than 100 hotel rooms and recruited sex workers through friends, clubs, bars and the Internet. The pair also posted ads on the Internet to attract sex customers. From January to February 2009, Thompson and Bell prostituted two 15-year-old girls and one 17-year-old girl in Maryland.
Forced Labor2009
United States US
7 farms and 17 farmers were charged http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/us-department-of-labor-uncovers,921927.shtml
CSEC2009
United States US
Police started investigating the Wests in early 2009 after an anonomous informant alerted police that students from a Robertson County High School were being hired to work as prostitutes. Federal agents picked up a 16 year old girl in early August as part of an investigation into a prostitution ring. The girl had been recruited and told to tell customers that she was really 18. On Aug. 3, Teresa West checked into a Murfreesboro hotel room and then went to a second room. Later that night, a federal affadavit said, a 16 year old girl went to the first room. She was picked up and later told investigators that she was still in high school. She said that during the summer she had seen clients 20 or 30 times. Typically clients paid her $110 with $40 going to Teresa West.
CSEC2009
United States US
The accused was charged in 1985 with molesting a teen-age girl. He operated Naked City near Roselawn, IN from 1968 to 1986. On March 24, 1986, he agreed to plea guilty to ten sex-related misdemeanors and was given a suspended sentence. He had previously pleaded guilty to obscenity charges in 1982 but according to John Casey, an attorney for Newton County. He later owned and operated a nudist colony, Naked City West, in southern CA. There, he was arrested in 1990 on five felony and four misdemeanor charges including procurring a minor by false inducement for lewd acts and procurement by false inducement for prostitution. In a plea bargain, 28 charges against him from years before were dropped and he pleaded guilty to distribution or exhibition of lewd materials to a minor. He was sentenced up to one year in Riverside County Jail and was to be on probation for five years, fined up to $5000 and have no contact with children or youth other than those whose parents gave permission for such contact, not be permitted to use pornographic materials, and be listed as a sex offender. Male, uses a wheelchair because he suffers from muscular dystrophy 57 in 1990 Formerly of Chicago Ran nudist camps in Newton County, IN and in southern CA Drost’s lawyer blamed his conviction on an attempt to enforce a particular fundamentalist point of view and thereby establish a religion, and sued Newton County, IN for $50 Million and the State of Indiana for $1 billion for alleged violation of his civil rights and similar charges. Agreed to stay out of IN for 10 years Currently lives in Homeland, Riverside County, CA Listed on American Sunbathers’ “Caution List” since 1986 Edits review of national nudist camps & “swing clubs” in the US Acquired “Club Zoro” (founded in 1933 by Chicago lawyer Alois Knapp) from his parents who purchased the club soon after World War II Has there been intervention? Originator of Miss Nude America Contest which was also filmed in 1975 Put in contracts for “Miss Nude America” contest that participants must be willing to sleep with him & meet his every need Originator of Miss Nude Teeny Bopper Universe Contest Sources: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Drost.html http://ontheslowtrain.blogspot.com/2007/05/dark-side-of-naked-city.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roselawn,_Indiana http://www.revengeismydestiny.com/cult_movies_hot_100_page_3.html(Some of the articles incorrectly say Roselawn, IL instead of IN which is correct.)
Bonded Labor2009
United States US
Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan living in Mission; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek Abdoollayev, 27, citizens of Uzbekistan living in Kansas City; Viorel Simon, 27, Alexandru Frumasache , 23, citizens of Moldova living in Kansas City, Kan.; Kristin Dougherty, 49, of Ellisville, Mo.; Andrew Cole, 53, of St. Charles, Mo.; Abdukakhar Azizkhodjaev, 49, a citizen of Uzbekistan living in Panama City, Fla.; and Sandjar Agzamov, 27, and Jakhongir Kakhkharov, 29, citizens of Uzbekistan who recently left the United States