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New Jersey man convicted of interstate prostitution and sex trafficking, including Tennessee. 0 Verified
01:38 Nov 23, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. (11/23/12) – On November 20, 2012, following a four-day trial, a federal jury in Council Bluffs found Johnelle Lewis...
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2 Memphis residents accused of human trafficking 0 Verified
01:37 Oct 22, 2012
BILOXI (AP) — A man and woman from Memphis, Tenn., are jailed in Harrison County on human trafficking, prostitution and drug charges....
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Memphis Police Officer Charged With Sex Trafficking 0 Verified
01:16 Sep 17, 2012
MEMPHIS, TN
UPDATE: Jan 25th, 2014
A former Memphis police officer will spend one year and one day in federal prison after pleading guilty...
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Mother charged with aiding daughter in prostitution 0 Verified
01:58 Aug 29, 2012
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
Murfreesboro police arrested a local mother last week on charges she assisted her daughter in prostitution.
Officers visited...
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Man accused of beating teen runaway, selling for sex 0 Verified
12:22 Aug 15, 2012
A man accused of beating a teenage girl and selling her for sex will face a judge Tuesday (Aug. 2012.)
Eric Sims faces several charges including...
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TENNESSEE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARRESTS SMITH COUNTY MAN FOR AGGRAVATED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR 0 Verified
01:40 Aug 03, 2012
Nashville, TN - August 3, 2012
Doug Clemmons, 51, of Carthage, Tenn. was arrested at his home last evening and charged with one count of aggravated...
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16, 19 yo held & prostituted against will, Nashville and Memphis 0 Verified
13:53 Aug 02, 2012
Shelby County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man for holding two teens against their will as prostitutes advertised on backpage.com.
On...
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16, 19 yo held & prostituted against will, Nashville & Memphis 0 Verified
13:06 Aug 02, 2012
(Dual locations: Nashville/Memphis Shelby County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man for holding two teens against their will as prostitutes...
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Tennessee man accused of sex trafficking 14 yr old across state lines 0 Verified
23:20 Jul 24, 2012
The trial of a Tennessee man accused of taking a 14-year-old girl across state lines to Richmond for prostitution has been moved to Aug. 7 because...
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A Memphis man, who police say forced his girlfriend into a life of prostitution, is in jail. 0 Verified
01:57 May 23, 2012
(Memphis) Tonight a Memphis man, who police say forced his girlfriend into a life of prostitution, is in jail.
If convicted, 39-year-old Anthony...
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Tennessee Man Arrested for Transporting a 14-Year-Old Baltimore Girl Across State Lines to Engage in Prostitution 0 Verified
18:00 Apr 26, 2012
RICHMOND, VA—Dwayne Washington, 32, of Memphis, Tennessee, was arrested today, accused of assisting a 14-year-old runaway from Baltimore,...
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Memphis Man Found Guilty of Child Sex Trafficking and Firearms Offenses 0 Verified
11:10 Apr 06, 2012
WASHINGTON- A federal jury in Memphis, Tenn., has convicted Maurice Mabon of child sex trafficking and a firearms offense, announced Assistant...
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4 charged in multistate prostitution ring 0 Verified
12:16 Mar 03, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Four Lexington residents have been charged in an alleged conspiracy to recruit women from eight states to work as prostitutes...
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No bond set for Cordova man in sex trafficking case 0 Verified
13:55 Feb 18, 2012
UPDATE Sept. 18, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WTVA) -- A Memphis man is facing up to life in prison, after pleading guilty to sex trafficking of children...
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Three Minnesotans Charged with Trafficking a Teenager for Prostitution 0 Verified
13:12 Feb 09, 2012
An investigation into a personal services ad placed on the Internet led to Thursday night’s arrest of three Minnesota residents who are...
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Memphis man gets 10 years for Sex Trafficking 0 Verified
12:51 Jan 30, 2012
A 53-year-old Memphis man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for driving a teenage girl to Arkansas to have sex for money at a...
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Memphis teen charged with sex trafficking 0 Verified
13:00 Dec 26, 2011
MEMPHIS, TN - A 19-year-old woman is in jail after police say she forced a teenage runaway into prostitution.
Investigators say multiple men...
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Sex-trafficking arrest in Haywood County 0 Verified
11:27 Dec 20, 2011
A routine traffic stop in Haywood County by a state trooper assigned to the West Tennessee Drug Task Force's Interstate Interdiction Unit...
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18-year-old woman pleads guilty to sex trafficking 0 Verified
13:59 Nov 04, 2011
UPDATE: March 12, 2013
Man gets 10 years in Memphis sex-trafficking case:
A federal judge in Memphis has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison...
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Sex Trafficking Ring Targeting Mid-South Teens Is Busted 0 Verified
01:59 Nov 01, 2011
Mid-South law enforcement says a sex trafficking ring used personal ads on Backpage.com to run its illegal multi-state business from Texas all...
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2 women rescued from Tennessee sex trafficking ring 0 Verified
01:54 Oct 19, 2011
NASHVILLE - Two young women claim they were held against their will for days, victims of sex trafficking, at a motel on the outskirts of downtown...
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Tennessee couple charged in alleged Logan County abduction 0 Verified
10:16 Oct 12, 2011
A Tennessee couple is jailed in Illinois after the abduction of a 14-year-old girl police say they met through Facebook.
Logan County State's...
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Underage Sex Trafficking of Step-Daughter, Man Arrested 0 Verified
13:31 Oct 11, 2011
MEMPHIS, TN - A man has been arrested after a 14-year-old girl on a known prostitution strip in Memphis was stopped by police.
According to...
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Man gets 15 years in federal prison for sex trafficking of minor 0 Verified
01:42 Jul 19, 2011
A man is headed to federal prison for 15 years for forcing an Illinois teenager into prostitution in Memphis.
Mitchell Lamont Chest pleaded...
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Indictment issued in sex trafficking case 0 Verified
13:10 Jul 17, 2011
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- A man arrested in Lewisburg six months ago on charges of promoting prostitution was indicted last week by the Rutherford...
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GBI's Human Trafficking Unit Locates Teenage Tennessee Girl 0 Verified
13:16 Jul 09, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011 C
DECATUR, Georgia The GBIs Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) received information from the Nashville, Tennessee Police...
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Alleged pimp confronts federal judge 0 Verified
13:23 Jun 21, 2011
Update; Oct 29, 2013
A United States district judge sentenced Terrence "T-Rex" Yarbrough to 44 years and six months in federal prison...
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Federal indictment against trafficking suspects unsealed 0 Verified
13:34 May 09, 2011
Federal indictments are unsealed in the case of an alleged human trafficking ring discovered last week in Hamblen County.
Sheriffs, working...
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Major Statewide Trafficking Ring Bust 0 Verified
13:28 May 07, 2011
May 7, 2011 — Nine members of an alleged human trafficking ring were indicted for bringing Mexican women to Tennessee with the promise...
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TBI arrests Two Men for Exploiting Minors and Promoting Prostitution 0 Verified
18:52 Apr 21, 2011
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Metro police arrested two Nashville men on charges that they allegedly promoted prostitution and sexually...
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29 charged with sex trafficking juveniles 0 Verified
13:23 Feb 28, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
UPDATE Dec. 19, 2012
Judge overturns 3 lone convictions:
At the conclusion of a weeks-long trial in May, a federal jury in...
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Tennesee Men Arrested for Trafficking Women on Backpage.com 0 Verified
13:14 Dec 18, 2010
In what's becoming a pattern, yet another story of human trafficking via Backpage.com is splashed across the media this week. This time,...
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Romanian Trafficking Suspect Arrested in TN 0 Verified
13:32 Dec 06, 2010
During a traffic stop on Interstate 75, a Gordon County Sheriff’s Office deputy arrested a fugitive wanted in Romania.
Vasile Ionel Tomescu,...
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Unlikely pair kept sex case alive 0 Verified
13:41 Nov 18, 2010
NASHVILLE - "British" and "Moe D" sulked at a table inside courtroom A859. Each wore jail coveralls, their legs shackled....
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6 charged in human trafficking scheme involving Thai workers 0 Verified
13:40 Sep 03, 2010
Six job recruiters have been indicted in federal court in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking operation ever to result in...
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Worker Claims "Atmosphere of Terror" 0 Verified
13:38 Aug 23, 2010
August 23, 2010 — Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato...
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Two Women, Two Minors Trafficked 0 Verified
13:35 Aug 23, 2010
August 23, 2010 — A West Tennessee federal grand jury has indicted a man on four counts of sex trafficking, as well as conspiracy to commit...
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Two 17 yr old girls trafficked by Georgia man in Nashville 0 Verified
01:38 Aug 09, 2010
Metro detectives charged a Georgia man with trafficking for sexual servitude after they said two 17-year-olds girls agreed to have sex with...
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FBI: Man admits running sexual delivery service 0 Verified
01:20 Jul 17, 2010
Selvin Salvador Perdomo is accused in a federal indictment of running a massive prostitution ring from this house, at 5101 Papermill Drive in...
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Memphis Man Gets 25 Years 0 Verified
13:41 Jun 24, 2010
June 24, 2010 — Memphis man who plead guilty to trafficking children for sex gets 25-year prison term.
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Authorities nab, release 4 suspects in "illegal human trafficking" 0 Verified
01:28 Jun 08, 2010
LOUDON - Four of six suspected illegal immigrants that fled from authorities after the van they were in was stopped Monday morning on Interstate...
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Teens charged with human trafficking 0 Verified
01:40 May 25, 2010
Twin brothers from Dolton has been charged with human trafficking after being accused of forcing teen girls to have sex with strangers.
Myrelle...
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Tennessee mother trafficks teen girls from rural high school 0 Verified
01:47 May 21, 2010
A Nashville woman accused of running a prostitution ring (actually trafficking-- any minor used for commercial sex is legally a severe trafficking...
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Mufreesboro, TN; Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Robertson County, TN
South Nashville man facing sex trafficking, prostitution charges 0 Verified
10:07 Jan 21, 2010
A woman picked up as part of a Metro police Internet prostitution sting claims a south Nashville man coerced her into prostituting herself....
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Mother Claims Enslavement 0 Verified
13:43 Jan 01, 2010
January 2010 — The arrest of a Nashville area man in a prostitution sting uncovered an alleged case of forced sexual servitude involving...
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East Memphis man charged with sexual trafficking 0 Verified
10:27 Jul 29, 2009
The ring leader of a local three-man group that allegedly recruited at least three juveniles to become prostitutes was charged Monday with sexual...
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Trafficking of three young women at Red Roof Inn on Sidco Drive, Nashville 0 Verified
13:23 Jul 11, 2009
Specialized Investigations Division detectives on Wednesday arrested Charles Lee, 24, and Timothy Lee, 42, at the Red Roof Inn on Sidco Drive,...
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Nashville woman trafficked to Memphis for Sex Slavery 0 Verified
01:42 Jan 22, 2009
Three suspects who Memphis police say brought a woman from Nashville to sell sex as part of their prostitution ring will make initial court...
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TWO INDICTED ON NUMEROUS SEX CHARGES 0 Verified
10:47 Jan 07, 2009
Huntingdon, TN- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has arrested a man and a woman involved in an abusive sex operation after they were indicted...
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First Prosecution under New Tennessee Law 0 Verified
13:47 Nov 18, 2008
November 18, 2008 — In the first case ever prosecuted under Tennessee's new anti-trafficking law, two men were sentenced to serve...
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