Joint Investigation Leads to Arrest of 6 in US, Mexico in Sex Trafficking Scheme Tammy Waitt - American Security Today
go to original November 7, 2016

What is Human Trafficking? (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Special agents in New York and the Mexican Federal Police in Mexico arrested six people in late October, for sex trafficking-related charges.

The arrests follow an extensive multi-year investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Government of Mexico.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) unsealed a 21-count indictment charging six defendants with sex trafficking offenses.

These individuals are alleged members of an international sex trafficking organization that exploited and trafficked adult and minor women in Mexico and in the United States from at least 2000 to 2016.

Fourteen victims of the charged sex trafficking organization are identified in the indictment.

Over a two-day period, authorities arrested four defendants in Mexico and two in Queens, New York, as part of a coordinated bilateral law enforcement action.

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