Category Archives: Human Trafficking

Imlay City Man Charged with Sixteen Felonies Including Trafficking and Harboring a Runaway In addition to the substantial charges that 49-year-old Roger Reid from Imlay City is already facing, authorities have now added a further sixteen felonies to that count. Reid is accused of harboring an underaged runaway from Detroit, and also of trafficking her […]

Several days ago, a human trafficking sting in Detroit put 12 suspected pimps behind bars. But that was just a portion of those arrested in the nationwide operation, entitled “Operation Cross Country IX.”  It freed over a hundred juveniles and put as many pimps behind bars.

Few Human Trafficking Cases Reported so Far  Last year Michigan lawmakers invested a vast amount of their time and energy in creating human trafficking laws that focused on saving the victims and prosecuting the perpetrators. But in the intervening time since those laws have hit the books, the Michigan State Police say that very few human […]

Three Arrested in Lansing In the wake of the third arrest of a suspected trafficker from a Lansing based child sex trafficking ring, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles Jr. has made a statement about his office’s concern over the growing problem of human trafficking in Michigan. Miles says that his office covers 49 counties in Michigan, […]