Calvert County is a county of just under 90,000 residents, located southeast of Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Virginia, in southern coastal Maryland. In late April 2015, deputies with the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, supported by officers from the St. Mary’s and Charles County Sheriff’s Offices and the Southern Maryland Information Center, conducted the county’s first […]
Owatonna is a small city of approximately 26,000 residents, located south of the Twin Cities and west of Rochester in Minnesota’s Steele County, at the juncture of Interstate 35 and U.S. Highways 14 and 218. In late March 2015, regional task force officers with the South Central Drug Investigative Unit conducted a reverse sting in Owatonna that […]
Fort Collins is a city of roughly 169,000 residents, situated 65 miles north of Denver in Larimer County, CO. For at least two decades, instances of prostitution, particularly those arranged online and conducted within city hotels and adult-oriented businesses, have been reported throughout the county. Numerous cases of prostitution, solicitation of prostitution, commercial sexual exploitation, […]
Port Orchard is a city of approximately 15,000 residents, situated in western Washington near Bremerton, WA. It is the county seat of Kitsap County, WA. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city; in January 2014, for example, a Port Orchard resident was sentenced to 50 years in prison for human […]
Santa Barbara is a city of approximately 88,000 residents, located on the Pacific coast of Santa Barbara County, California, near Goleta and Montecito. Incidents of prostitution and human trafficking in and around the city have been reported for years. For example, in 2010, the Santa Barbara Police Department, responding to reports of a kidnapping, discovered […]
Soquel is a census-designated place of less than 11,000 residents, located just east of Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz County, California. While reports of prostitution in the community remain limited, local law enforcement have taken proactive steps to reduce demand on at least one occasion. In early 1996, deputies with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s […]
The City of Longmont is a home rule municipality of approximately 100,000 residents, located in Boulder County and Weld County Colorado. Longmont is located northeast of the county seat of Boulder, CO, near Greeley, CO, and 33 miles north-northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver, CO. Several high-profile cases of business-based prostitution have been […]
Bemidji is a city of about 15,000 residents, located in Minnesota’s Beltrami County, roughly halfway between Duluth and Grand Forks, North Dakota. The city abuts the Red Lake Indian Reservation, White Earth Indian Reservation, and Leech Lake Indian Reservation. Although reports of prostitution in the community remain limited, local law enforcement have initiated investigations targeting […]
Stroudsburg is a city of about 6,000 residents, located in eastern Pennsylvania’s Monroe County roughly an hour’s drive southeast of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Prostitution activity, often arranged online and occurring within local businesses and hotels, has been reported in the city for many years. Minors have also been discovered during prostitution stings. In March 2015, […]
Nacogdoches is a city of approximately 32,000 residents, located in East Texas’s Nacogdoches County, near Lufkin. Nacogdoches is a sister city of the smaller, similarly named Natchitoches, Louisiana, the third-largest city in the southern Ark-La-Tex. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and […]
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