Disturbing new details have emerged in the case of a Texas teen who vanished from a Dallas Mavericks game last year and was later sex trafficked, WFAA-TV reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, on April 8, 2022, the girl was at the American Airlines Center in Dallas with her father watching the basketball game when she …
A 15-year-old girl who was missing for 11 days was found after sexually explicit images of her were posted on a prostitution website, leading authorities to locate her in a hotel room booked by a registered sex offender, Fox News reports. Now, eight people have been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to sell …
Two Arkansas men admitted that they not only sex-trafficked a 6-year-old girl but also sexually assaulted her, leaving her with sexually-transmitted diseases. On November 11, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas reported that Demarcus George (pictured), 27, and Mario Waters (not pictured), 33, have both pleaded guilty “to conspiracy to …
An alleged sex trafficker and his accomplice are behind bars after a teen girl made an escape from their grasp and contacted police. On March 25, 2019, a 15-year-old girl reported herself as a runaway to the Myrtle Beach Police Department in South Carolina. The teen told officers that she met a man named “Rico” …
Jeffrey Epstein’s suspected sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is due in court in New York City on Friday, her first in-person court appearance since her arrest in July 2020. According to the New York Post, Maxwell will appear in Manhattan federal court Friday for arraignment on two additional sex-trafficking charges that were added last month …
An 11-year-old girl who was the subject of an AMBER Alert in Florida was found with a 22-year-old man. As the Miami Herald reports, 11-year-old Montana Breseman went missing from her middle school in Pasco County and was found safe Tuesday morning at the home of a man twice her age. A 19-year-old man and …
Arizona law enforcement busted more than three dozen people in an undercover operation targeting child sex crimes and human trafficking, the Phoenix Police Department said Friday. For Operation Broken Hearts, agents put ads on websites and apps commonly used by suspects seeking sex acts with children. Phoenix police said the operation was part of a …
A federal judge on Monday nixed Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest attempt to get out of jail, denying a bail proposal of $28.5 million that her attorneys said represented “all of her and her spouse’s assets, her family’s livelihood and the financial security of her closest friends and family,” the New York Times reports. Prosecutors opposed the …
Authorities in Florida announced Tuesday that they arrested more than 170 suspects during a two-year investigation into the human trafficking of an underage girl. Tallahassee police said in a statement that they established Operation Stolen Innocence in November 2018, after officers discovered explicit images of a child on a sex-for-pay website. Investigators with the Special …
“Operation Home Alone 2” nabbed five men on charges related to child sexual exploitation in Arizona — including a former detective who was out on bond after he was arrested on the same charges in February, Homeland Security Investigations reports. The week-long action was the culmination of a months-long action in Pinal County, similar to …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace spoke with Fox & Friends Weekend about recent law enforcement operations aimed at locating missing and endangered children in several states, including Georgia, Ohio, and New Jersey. “I hope you’re sitting down,” she said, “because just last year 420,000 plus children went missing. Here’s the problem: Many of them are described as runaways, [but] the …
A special task force of a Michigan sheriff’s office located seven missing kids Friday night, including a 16-year-old girl they found locked in a barn. Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson said the team — known as GHOST, the Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team — swept over the county looking for children reported by other agencies …
