North Baltimore is a community of about 3,000 residents, situated between Bowling Green and Findlay along Interstate 75 in Wood County, Ohio. It is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its prostitution and sex trafficking problems have been associated with its proximity to major highways and to the Toledo metro population. News reports of widespread truck stop prostitution in North Baltimore and other communities along the I-75 corridor date back to the 1970s. The highway route provides a sex buyer base of truckers, and also facilitates the movement of the supply of trafficked and prostituted persons. Truck stops and motels provide places for commercial sex to occur. The Wood County Sheriff’s Office has conducted periodic reverse stings in North Baltimore since at least 2010; stings leading to the arrest of prostituted persons date back to at least 1977.