human trafficking

Police announced the results of a statewide crackdown on human trafficking. Hundreds of arrests including dozens of accused pimps, and many would-be customers. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4’s I-Team on Feb. 1, 2023.

A former Mexican soccer star, Club Tijuana’s top goal scorer of all time, was arrested for alleged human trafficking Sunday trying to cross the border into the U.S.  

Councilman O’Farrell wants to address the human trafficking and prostitution problem in East Hollywood especially near schools, daycares, and residential properties.

Farah revealed this week that he was taken to Britain illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant has given a face to the often nameless victims of modern slavery, crime victims who many times are dismissed as “illegal” immigrants.

The people, believed to be part of a migrant smuggling operation, were found dead in San Antonio.

Los Angeles law enforcement says authorities rescued more than 80 human trafficking and sexual exploitation victims, including children, during a weeklong operation that also netted hundreds of arrests. The annual “Operation Reclaim and Rebuild” was held last week and coincided with the run-up to the Super Bowl in Los Angeles.

There are still no arrests in the killing of a teenage girl found dumped on the 110 Freeway over a month ago. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022.

Community members were mourning the loss of 16-year-old Tioni Theus, who was shot to death and left along the 110 Freeway earlier this month. Lauren Coronado reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022.

Tens of thousands of people are coming into town for the Super Bowl but authorities are urging the public to keep an eye out for the darker side of large sporting events – human trafficking. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022.

At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the biggest tragedy involving migrants on the dangerous crossing to date

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty Monday on all counts in a high-profile sex-trafficking case by a federal jury in Brooklyn.

One person was killed and two were hospitalized with critical injuries Friday in a police pursuit of a human trafficking suspect that ended in a crash, authorities said.

Police were chasing human trafficking suspects when the driver crashed. Christine Kim reports for Today in LA on Friday Sept. 3, 2021.