Law enforcement officials say they recovered four trafficking victims and arrested 11 people as the result of a two-day operation in St.
Four men from around the Twin Cities face prostitution charges after police conducted a sex trafficking sting in late October. A year-old Inver Grove Heights woman has pleaded guilty to trafficking women at a massage parlor she owned. Kelly is charged with sex crimes stemming from a July incident with a minor. Paul-based nonprofit helps hundreds of women escape sexual exploitation each year. A Minneapolis man is facing sex trafficking charges after officials say he called his "main girl" from jail, asking for money.
A Plymouth man has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison after a jury convicted him of being one of the leaders of a sex-trafficking ring. Zeug was arrested in June as part of a covert operation aimed at underage sex trafficking. Officials in the Twin Cities say a man was found guilty of several sex trafficking charges in connection to a prostitution ring that brought women from China to work in the south metro.
A year-old man in town for the Super Bowl is accused of trying to hire what he believed were two teenage children for sex. An Arizona has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for trying to get a teenage girl to travel from Minnesota to Arizona and have sex with him.
A year-old Minneapolis man is accused of advertising a juvenile female on Backpage. A man is facing charges for his alleged role in a prostitution operation that involved at least 35 women, according to Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. Authorities say the Walnut Grove police chief was one of three men arrested on Friday in connection with a prostitution sting in western Minnesota.
