sex trafficking

The Republican Party of Olmsted County is holding a garage sale to assist a local organization that assists younger victims of sex trafficking.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Twenty-one people have been indicted in what authorities are calling a sophisticated sex-trafficking ring that brought hundreds of women from Thailand to America and forced them to work as prostitutes.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal jury has awarded a Twin Cities woman nearly $1 million in her civil lawsuit against a Minnesota man she says sexually assaulted her when she was 14 and living in Laos.

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - A federal grand jury indictment that was unsealed late Tuesday in St. Paul charges 17 people with participating in an international sex trafficking organization.

Minneapolis, MN (KROC-AM News) - A Twin Cities man has been sentenced to 33 years in federal prison for sex trafficking charges involving two Rochester area juveniles.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for bringing a teen to Fargo for the purpose of prostitution.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Minneapolis man accused of bringing a woman to North Dakota for prostitution has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman who spent four years in jail after she was accused of participating in a sex trafficking ring has filed a lawsuit against the city of St. Paul and a key police investigator.

Rochester, MN  (KROC AM News) - Rochester police arrested a suspected pimp Wednesday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has blasted the government for its handling of a sex trafficking case involving Somali gang members, saying one of the investigators was repeatedly caught lying and the so-called victims in the case had serious issues with credibility.

Minneapolis, MN (KROC-AM News) - A St. Paul man has been sentenced to over 24 years in prison for a sex trafficking conviction involving a 15-year-old girl from Rochester

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged five St. Paul residents in what authorities allege was a multistate sex-trafficking ring.   The two men and three women each face seven counts for allegedly trafficking multiple victims in 2013 and 2014. Aut...

A federal grand jury has returned a sex trafficking indictment against a Twin Cities man accused of prostituting and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old Rochester girl.