Undercover Lake Worth police officers posed as escorts and prostitutes online. When people who responded arrived in person to meet up with the fake escorts, they were arrested.
Lake Worth Police arrested 42 people over the course of two-days earlier this month during a counter-human trafficking operation that they called ‘Operation April Fools’.Lake Worth Police arrested 42 people over the course of two-days earlier this month during a counter-human trafficking operation that they called ‘Operation April Fools’.
Undercover police officers posed as escorts and prostitutes online. When people who responded arrived in person to meet up with the fake escorts, they were arrested. 41 males and 1 female was arrested were charged with solicitation of prostitution. Some of the people arrested had warrants out for their arrest, including aggravated sexual assault of a child, solicitation of a minor and aggravated assault of a police officer."Human trafficking is a problem everywhere, whether we can see it or not, and given our close proximity to the border here in Texas it is a bigger problem here than elsewhere in the country," said Lake Worth Police Chief J.T.
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