Plymouth County Keeps Puritanism Alive With Bogus Sex Trafficking Stings
Five men face "trafficking a person for sexual servitude" charges after meeting an undercover cop at a hotel.
Five men face "trafficking a person for sexual servitude" charges after meeting an undercover cop at a hotel.
The latest sting went to elaborate lengths to target students themselves instead of illicit pay-to-stay visa mills.
Undercover sheriff's deputies posing as homeowners hired handymen to paint, install recessed lighting, or do other tasks that require licenses. Then they arrested them.
Operation Independence Day is just Operation Cross Country by a different name.
Plus: a Robert Kraft/spa-sting update, Florida sex-buyer registry nixed, D.C. activist alleges entrapment, and more sex-work and sex-policy news.
With sweeping "sex trafficking stings," the FBI returns to its roots as the nation's vice squad.
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