The Undercover Operation On December 15, 2025, an undercover agent with the Southeast Michigan Trafficking and Exploitation Crimes Task Force called a phone number listed in an online advertisement. The ad offered sex with a 16-year-old girl. The person who answered directed the agent to a location on Detroit’s west side. Agents met the girl instead of a sex buyer, […]
By Eason Yang The Promise of a Better Life The promise was simple: a high-paying data entry job overseas, an opportunity to escape unemployment and create a better future. For Imtiyaz Babu, a resident of the Delhi-Bhawana community, it seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime chance. However, it turned into a nightmare. Babu’s cyber trafficking route was intricate—first from Kolkata to Bangkok, […]
By Eason Yang Law enforcement is deploying a multi-pronged strategy against the illegal massage industry. With large events like Super Bowl LX in the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Jose Police Department quietly took strict action in accordance with its original security plan. This week, detectives executed search warrants at three massage parlours across the city that are suspected […]
By: Eason Yang The Evidence Hotels ignored According to a federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, a woman was involved in hotel trafficking at multiple Maryland hotels between 2013 and 2016. The 66-page lawsuit alleges that she booked rooms with cash provided by her trafficker. She declined housekeeping services and made multiple daily requests for extra towels. […]
By Eason Yang A Father’s Search, a Daughter’s Silence Foday Musa’s daughter is back home, but she is not really back home. This 18-year-old, who was rescued from a human trafficking network in Sierra Leone, has made it back to Guinea but cannot return to her village or even her father. Her silence, advocates say, is not only the scam’s […]