The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that sex trafficking victims in cases that involved Backpage ads should file a petition for compensation before Feb. 2 for review.
Human trafficking investigators responded to an online ad, and a Miami Beach undercover officer met a sex worker on Tuesday night in the North Beach neighborhood, records show.
In one week, Miami-Dade prosecutors filed six felony charges as part of three new cases against a 26-year-old California man who detectives identified as a “pimp.”
Detectives used the ListCrawler’s adult classifieds during an undercover human trafficking operation Thursday in Miami-Dade County, police said.
Daniel Oneill was among the suspects caught during an undercover human trafficking operation involving Miami police officers and Homeland Security Investigations agents, records show.
A 32-year-old convicted human trafficker on probation appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Wednesday morning to face a long list of new charges.
A judge in Miami federal court Friday sentenced a 26-year-old woman who admitted to helping smuggle a group of Cuban migrants -- including a 9-month-old baby, children, and teenagers -- who died at sea.
A 13-year-old girl in foster care reported that a cunning man offered her and her friends a job to sell marijuana, and invited them to a Miami-Dade County home where he isolated her and raped her.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is stepping up its efforts to combat human trafficking with a new initiative aimed at connecting victims to vital resources.