FW Star-Telegram: Billboards warning about human trafficking coming to Dallas-Fort Worth
Tarrant County agency officials announced a billboard campaign on Thursday that they hope will educate residents about the dangers that lurk on the internet and social media.
Star-Telegram: She was seduced by money, but traffickers stole her innocence and sold her for sex
NOVEMBER 17, 2017 08:36 AM
Home had spun into a living hell for a mom and her 16-year-old daughter. In the fall of 2015, the teen was already on probation for stealing her mom’s checkbook and writing a hot check. She was seeing two therapists, but she refused to give up smoking pot and her rebellious ways. Her mother felt handcuffed to a problem she couldn’t solve.
Dallas Morning News: How a regular girl from Keller became a victim of sex trafficking and managed to escape
At 11:30 on a Friday night, five women park outside a strip club called Cabaret Royale in Northwest Dallas. They’re about to launch a mission.
Houston Chronicle: Sex trafficking victim’s desperate call to mother saves her life, lands three in jail, police say
By Jay R. Jordan Updated 5:03 pm CST, Wednesday, January 16, 2019
A frantic phone call from a human trafficking victim in Houston to her mother in Fort Worth might have been the call that saved her life, police said. The 20-year-old woman, who’s also from Fort Worth, moved to Houston with a friend on Dec. 21 to look for a job, according to Houston Police Department Vice Division Commander James Dale.
Star-Telegram: Accused leader of ‘large-scale’ sex trafficking ring out of jail on bond
JANUARY 07, 2019 03:55 PM
The alleged leader of what police have called a large-scale sex trafficking ring in Dallas-Fort Worth has been free on bond since the New Year, according to court records.
NBC 5: FBI, Police Conduct 3 Raids in Human Trafficking Probe
Sep 12, 2018
Police and federal agents raided homes in Dallas, Fort Worth and Lancaster on Tuesday as part of a major human trafficking investigation, authorities said.