Florida Police Arrest More Than 170 People in ‘Large-Scale’ Sex Trafficking Sting

Florida Police Arrest More Than 170 People in ‘Large-Scale’ Sex Trafficking Sting
Police stand behind a crime scene tape near the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub on in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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More than 170 people were charged on Nov. 17 following a two-year, large-scale human trafficking investigation by the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) and Florida state and federal officials over the sexual exploitation of a young teenage girl.

TPD Chief Lawrence Revell and state and federal officials on Tuesday announced the findings of Operation Stolen Innocence, a highly secretive investigation which began in November 2018 into the commercial sex trafficking of the victim who was 13 and 14 when the offenses occurred.

Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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