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Brevard County on the east coast of Florida, and has a population of approximately 600,000. The county seat is Titusvile, and other population centers within the county include the cities of Melbourne, West Melbourne, Palm Bay, and Cocoa. Prostitution and sex trafficking cases in the county date back decades, and have generated many other crimes, […]
Liberty Township is an affluent suburb of Cincinnati located in Butler County, Ohio. It is one of thirteen townships in Butler County and is located in the east-central part of the county, just south of the city of Monroe. Its population is roughly 40,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the […]
Rensselaer County, New York, has a population of approximately 161,000 and is located 13 miles east of Albany. Its county seat is Troy, a city of approximately 52,000. Periodic reverse stings have been conducted within the county since at least 1997 and possibly before. In a 1999 reverse sting in Troy, the decoys used for […]
Farrell is a city of roughly 4,000 residents, located in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, within the Youngstown–Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Mercer County. For example, in May 2021 a woman pleaded guilty to distribution of material depicting […]
Situated on the edge of the Cascade mountain range in Central Oregon, along the Deschutes River, Deschutes County has about 204,000 residents. Its government seat and principle population center is the city of Bend. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results […]
Fairview is a city of about 10,000 residents located in Williamson County, Tennessee. It is part of the Nashville metropolitan area. In November and December of 2015, a web-based reverse sting in Fairview resulted in 13 arrests and the seizure of illegal drugs. Fairview police officers said that this was the first such operation in […]
Mount Pocono is a borough of about 3,000 people in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, located in the northeastern part of the Poconos Mountains region of the state. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the community and throughout the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to […]
East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, and has a population of about 10,000. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located less than 10 miles west of Midtown Manhattan. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the area, and have generated complaints to law enforcement agencies from […]
St. Louis County is located in the northeastern portion of Minnesota. Its population is about 199,00, and its county seat is Duluth. It is the largest county by total area in Minnesota, and the largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have occurred in the […]
Millcreek Township is a community in Erie County, Pennsylvania, and has a population of about 53,000. It is the largest suburb of Erie County, and the 14th-largest municipality in the state, larger than the cities of Altoona and Harrisburg. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in […]
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