PORTLAND—A federal magistrate judge on Jan. 22, ordered a New Hampshire couple detained pending trial for a sex-trafficking operation in which they were accused of recruiting Chinese women to travel to the United States on tourist visas to engage in prostitution across northern New England.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Darcie McElwee praised the detention order, citing “a serious risk of flight and danger to the community, especially the Chinese women involved in the operation.”
