LAPD and their federal partners at the FBI and Homeland Security announced a joint initiative to target human traffickers.
The FBI and Homeland Security launched a joint initiative with the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday to crack down on human traffickers.Law enforcement detached from the Figueroa Corridor Human Trafficking Initiative targets a 3.5-mile stretch of Figueroa Street between Gage Avenue and Imperial Highway, an area notorious for prostitution. Investigators plan to focus on prosecuting human traffickers, especially those sexually exploiting minors in the South LA neighborhood.
'The Figueroa Corridor area is ground zero for human trafficking and victims are abused and exploited there every day,' United States Attorney Martin Estrada said. 'It is imperative that we take an all-hands approach to stop the human trafficking happening right in our backyard.' One of the cases involves a pair of Anaheim men â Nanci Jasmin Castillo, 31, and Jonathan Gonzalez-Reyes, 38 â who allegedly produced child pornography after befriending a 13-year-old girl.
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