Malabar is a town of approximately 3,000 residents in Brevard County, Florida. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution and sex trafficking throughout Brevard County is well documented, in Malabar as well as in Cape Canaveral, Cocoa, Melbourne, Palm Bay, Rockledge, Satellite Beach, and Titusville. Consumer-level demand provides the revenue stream […]
Stillwater is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, and has a population of about 19,000. Stillwater is part of the Twin Cities Metro Area, and is located across the St. Croix River from Wisconsin. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented in the city, and throughout the region. For example, in 2017, police revoked the license […]
Lakeville is a city of about 73,000 residents located in Dakota County, Minnesota. It is a suburb of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, approximately 20 miles south of both downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul. In November 2015, law enforcement officers from several agencies conducted an undercover sex trafficking sting in Lakeville. The detail involved officers from the […]
Ramsey County has a population of approximately 543,000, and its largest city and county seat is St. Paul, Minnesota’s state capital. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities and unincorporated areas of the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul metro region. St. Paul has experienced a wide range of problems associated […]
The twin cities of Minneapolis (in Hennepin County) and St. Paul (Ramsey County) have well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking dating back to at least the 1970s, and the local and regional commercial sex markets have involved the rape, assault, the murder of prostituted women, and the forced sex trafficking of pregnant women. Hennepin […]
Greenwood is a town of about 3,000 residents, located in southern Caddo Parish, in the northwest corner of Louisiana. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems throughout the parish and in the town of Greenwood. To address these issues, Caddo Parish deputies have collaborated with officers from municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and […]
Blue Earth County has a populaiton of about 67,000 and is situated southwest of Minneapolis, and abuts Nicollet and Le Sueur counties in central Minnesota. Located at the juncture of U.S. Highway 14 and U.S. Highway 169, law enforcement has reported prostitution activity– as well as incidents of sex trafficking and prostitution-related robberies– in the […]
Cold Spring is a village of fewer than 2,000 residents in Putnam County, New York. It is located about 30 miles north of New York City along the Hudson River, near West Point. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the small town and surrounding communities and unincorporated areas of Putnam County. This activity […]
Champaign County, Illinois has approximately 210,000 residents, and is the 10th-most populous county in Illinois. The twin cities of Urbana and Champaign are the only cities in the county and they abut the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, […]
Shelburne is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont. It is a suburb of Burlington located on the shore of Lake Champlain, and has a population of roughly 7,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the area have been well-documented for over a decade. For example, in February 2013, a man was sentenced in U.S. District Court […]
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