POLK COUNTY, Fla. – Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd briefed the media at 10:00 a.m. this morning about a seven-day-long multi-agency undercover operation focused on human trafficking. Please click here to read the updated story.
Deputies say 213 arrests were made, and those arrests were made up of suspects who solicited prostitutes and, those who offered to commit prostitution, and other suspects who profited from or aided & abetted prostitution.
Judd will be joined by detectives and representatives from state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as social services organizations that offered help for human trafficking victims.
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There were 24 potential victims rescued during this operation – and of those, six were in the country illegally from Cuba.
Some of the victims told detectives they were forced into prostitution to pay the people who smuggled them into the United States.
The updated story can be found here.
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