Tag: Human Trafficking

Investigations

Multi-State Law Enforcement Operation Rescues 70 Human Trafficking Victims

The operation involved the execution of 25 search warrants and disrupted business at 26 “illicit massage businesses,” the Human Trafficking Training Center reports.

May 30, 2025

Investigations

Women in LE: University of Nevada's Detective Faith Syfret

She is a detective who has served in many positions with her department and with an FBI task force as an undercover detective for the regional human exploitation and trafficking unit.

December 10, 2024

Patrol

NC Deputies Rescue Missing FL Teen at Traffic Stop

Deputies with the Nash County Sheriff’s Office arrested Alejandro Hernandez Vazquez, 40, after realizing his 16-year-old female passenger had been reported missing by Florida's Coral Springs Police Department only five hours earlier.

July 11, 2023

Patrol

Virginia Trooper, Marine Reserve Officer Busts Human Trafficking Ring

"[He] saw a young lady who seemed to be acting a bit differently and was dressed a bit differently," Marine Corps Col. John Cowart said. "And he saw a '13' tattooed on her arm, which really set off his alarm bells."

May 25, 2023

Patrol

Louisiana Law Mandates Increased Training for Human Trafficking Enforcement

Louisiana Senate Bill 63—which was passed by a 40-14 vote (with one abstention) in late June and was signed by Governor John Bel Edwards soon thereafter—amends Children's Code Act 601 relative to mandatory reporting of child abuse and reporting of sex trafficking.

August 12, 2022

Patrol

UT Highway Patrol Arrests 2 Men for Allegedly Smuggling Young Girl

The 7-year-old girl was discovered in the back seat of a car during a traffic stop for illegal window tint.

June 14, 2022

Patrol

What You Need to Know About Human Trafficking

The exploitation of people for unpaid labor and forced prostitution is a heinous crime that is much more prevalent in modern America than you think.

February 2, 2022

Special Units

CA Officers Rescue 17-Year-Old Human Trafficking Victim

The officers took her into protective custody and drove her to the police station, where she told detectives that over the past year she had been moved around Southern California and even taken to Nevada and Colorado, forced to work as a prostitute.

March 29, 2021

Special Units

U.S. Marshals, Local Police Rescue Exploited Children in Northern Ohio

The rescued children are between the ages of 13 and 18. Children have been recovered in Cleveland, East Cleveland, Akron, Mansfield, Euclid, Willoughby and as far away as Miami.

September 2, 2020

Special Units

U.S. Marshals Rescue Dozens of Missing Children in Georgia

The Marshals Service identified 15 of the kids as being victims of sex trafficking.

August 28, 2020

Technology

Zistos Introduces Digital Telemetry for the ExplorerSCOPE Cargo Inspection System

The new optional WiFi transmitter adapter (WXMT-WIFI) connects to the ExplorerSCOPE and produces wireless, encrypted digital video images that can be transmitted and viewed on a smart display running the Zistos imaging application, or transmitted over a digital network.

November 5, 2019

Special Units

Arizona Officer Creates Safe Haven for Trafficked Girls

An officer with the Tucson Police Department has made a mission out of caring for young women—girls in some cases—who are the victims of human trafficking.

April 23, 2019