human trafficking

An East Bay oral surgeon has been charged with a slew of sex crimes involving children, including one child as young as nine.

San Diego County leaders are putting pressure on state and federal lawmakers to help fight human trafficking. County studies prove human trafficking is a nearly billion-dollar underground industry with prevalence in the San Diego region.

County leaders estimate 12,000 victims and survivors are in San Diego County. NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado has more.

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced a new training program Wednesday to help firefighters and emergency medical service employees recognize the signs of human trafficking.

The DA’s office teamed up with first responders to train them in the fight against human trafficking. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more.

Four people were arrested on sex trafficking charges in San Jose Wednesday after police served search warrants at two locations that were suspected to be brothels, police said.

As hard as it is to imagine contorting your body to hide inside a washing machine, what’s really incredible is how much human smugglers are getting paid to move people across the border.

The latest migrant smuggling attempt sheds light into what Chinese migrants are facing while trying to cross into the country illegally. NBC 7’s Alexis Rivas has more.

Lawyers for Robert Kraft have filed a lawsuit against prosecutors in Florida for allegedly failing to turn over records in the New England Patriots owner’s ongoing solicitation case. Kraft’s lawyers claim State Attorney Dave Aronberg’s office “knowingly and willfully neglected their statutory duties under the Public Records Act,” according to court documents.

The state of Florida filed an appeal late Tuesday to try to get video evidence of Patriots owner Robert Kraft allegedly paying for a sex act at an illicit massage parlor in Jupiter. Palm Beach County Judge Leonard Hanser ruled in May that all videos in Kraft’s solicitation case must be suppressed. In his 10-page ruling, Hanser wrote that detectives...

The Trump administration is poised to declare China among the world’s worst offenders on human trafficking, U.S. officials said Monday, putting the world’s most populous country in the same category as North Korea, Zimbabwe and Syria, China’s downgrade is to be announced Tuesday at the State Department when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson unveils the annual Trafficking in Persons Report...

President Donald Trump says he will bring the “full force and weight” of the U.S. government to combat an “epidemic” of human trafficking.
The president is meeting at the White House with senior advisers and representatives of organizations that deal with trafficking. His daughter, Ivanka Trump, is among those in attendance.

Authorities say 474 people have been arrested in a multiday sting operation focused on human trafficking in California.

A San Diego man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison in a case of human trafficking on Facebook after he tried to offer up the sexual services of a person he thought was a girl but who turned out to be an undercover police officer, prosecutors said.

A Palmdale pimp who tattooed and sexually abused his human trafficking victims was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in state prison, prosecutors said.