Fighting Against ‘The Game’: COC inspires action at Human Trafficking Prevention Summit
Kia Dupclay was 15 years old when she fell victim to “the game,” or as most of society knows it, human trafficking. She was on her way to a friend’s…
Kia Dupclay was 15 years old when she fell victim to “the game,” or as most of society knows it, human trafficking. She was on her way to a friend’s…
The son of a teen mother who married a man who turned out to be a pedophile, Jerome Elam remembers when, as a 5-year-old, his stepfather made him the “property”…
The Santa Clarita Valley Human Trafficking Committee is hosting its annual Trafficking Summit virtually, starting Thursday, Sept. 24. While the pandemic has halted many things, it hasn’t stopped human trafficking,…
At 14 years old, Katariina Rosenblatt was addicted to cocaine, had a boyfriend connected to Pablo Escobar, was being trafficked through an apartment complex and sexually exploited by grown men.…
Officers with the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, along with deputies from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, carried out a human trafficking operation in a Valencia-area hotel…
Detectives assigned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Human Trafficking Bureau and the Regional Human Trafficking Task Force want the public’s help in locating a man suspected of pimping…
Three out-of-town women were arrested Thursday on suspicion of prostitution, the latest in what’s become an annual crackdown of massage businesses in the Santa Clarita Valley by a specialty team…
County supervisors committed to supporting efforts to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children received some welcome news from the frontline workers who updated them on the ongoing fight. The…
A human trafficking operation carried out by a specialty team of sheriff’s deputies netted the arrest of two men on felony charges — one a Newhall resident, the other a…
A local man who pleaded no contest last month to human trafficking to commit another crime and to other criminal charges, including assaulting someone with a clothes hanger, was sentenced…
A local man pleaded no contest Wednesday to human trafficking to commit another crime, a felony, and other criminal charges, including assaulting someone with a clothes hanger. Michael Shaw, 38,…
To call their work a “cat-and-mouse” game of the highest stakes wouldn’t be a stretch of the truth. The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station’s Domestic Highway Enforcement Team is leading…
One of two men accused of human trafficking pleaded no contest Friday to taking a person for prostitution without consent, a felony. Eric Hamwey, 31, of Encino, and his co-accused,…
A Santa Clarita man accused of human trafficking appeared in court Thursday, but is scheduled to return Friday, officials said. Michael Shaw, 37, of Santa Clarita, appeared in San Fernando…
Law enforcement officials on the frontline in the fight to stop the sexual exploitation of young people took time Thursday to recognize the national day set up in support…
When Santa Clarita deputies responded to a report of an assault back in spring of 2016, they uncovered evidence that would lead to one of the first investigations for a…
Santa Clarita Valley’s top cop reports making inroads in the battle to stop human trafficking thanks to the formation of a special enforcement team. "One of our biggest things that…
A group pledging to save one child at a time from the sex trade is bringing information about its ongoing efforts to disrupt human sex trafficking to the Santa…
Detectives battling the commercial sex trade - who have arrested nearly a dozen men in the Santa Clarita Valley since March - are now targeting the “demand side” of…
Last week’s arrest of two men in the SCV accused of arranging to have sex with a child was part of a massive nationwide operation by law enforcement to stop…