The growing number of transnational gang members in the U.S is alarming. This is the reason for the operation made by the federal authorities which resulted to the arrest of over 1,000 gang members throughout the country.
Utah bill was approved 6-3 by lawmakers that gives the death penalty to someone convicted of human trafficking if their victim dies. Opponents of the death penalty called said bill as expensive and excessive.
Man guilty of sex trafficking 4 minors. He waiting for his sentence. Man from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty on January 7 this year for sex trafficking. Robert Middlebrook, 41, of Clairton was seen with four teenagers in his cars during a traffic stop.
Italy arrested five North African men on Friday on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking in the presumed drowning of more than 200 people, saying they used clubs and knives against migrants.
Senior U.S. lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday about whether the State Department’s annual global report on human trafficking may have been watered down due to political considerations and vowed to demand a full accounting at a Senate hearing this week.
Several U.S. politicians sharply criticized the Obama administration on Monday over an annual global report on human trafficking in response to a Reuters article chronicling how senior U.S. diplomats had watered down rankings of more than a dozen strategically important countries.
Sheltering in the backroom of a provincial Thai police station is a 35-year-old street vendor who triggered a human trafficking investigation that has reverberated across Southeast Asia.
Zunduri, enslaved at a dry cleaners shop in Mexico City, was so thirsty at one point she blistered her mouth trying to drink steam from an iron, and was so hungry she chewed the polythene wrapping used to cover garments.
Thai police have arrested a man they believe is the key figure behind a brutal human trafficking network that ran a jungle camp where dozens of bodies have been found.
Bullet-proof vest, shotgun, sunglasses: Kompat Sompaorat could be mistaken for a member of a SWAT team. He actually belongs to a motley group of Thai civilians who, frustrated by their government's lacklustre response to human trafficking, have taken up arms to patrol one of Asia's busiest smuggling routes.
Hector Beltran Leyva, head of a family crime syndicate that waged a bloody conflict in Mexico with a former ally, drug kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, was captured on Wednesday, an interior ministry source said.
42-year-old Meshael Alayban, who is identified as a Saudi Arabian princess, has been accused of holding a domestic servant against her will at her condominium in Irvine California. Alayban faces one felony count of human trafficking. She is one of the wives of Saudi Prince Abdulrahman bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz al Saud.
