Human Trafficking Enforcement Operation in Results in 22 Arrests
Eighteen men and four women were arrested during an operation by a human trafficking task force in Compton and Lynwood, authorities said Friday.
All the men arrested allegedly solicited undercover sheriff’s deputies for various sex acts, according to Deputy Morgan Arteaga of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. They were booked at the Inmate Reception Center.
Three of the women were arrested on suspicion of loitering for the purposes of prostitution. One woman was arrested on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution after allegedly soliciting sex for money from an undercover sheriff’s detective, Arteaga said.
All four of the arrested women were offered victim-centered services from the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking and Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, Arteaga said.
One woman accepted ongoing services from Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion. The other three were booked at the Century Regional Detention Facility, Arteaga said.
A 16-year-old runaway girl was identified as a commercially sexually exploited child and released to the Department of Children and Family Services, Arteaga said.
The operation by the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Taskforce included personnel from the FBI, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, the Department of Children and Family Services, Probation Department, Los Angeles Unified School Police, Homeland Security Investigations, Saving Innocence, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking and state parole agents.
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