• During a week-long undercover human trafficking operation in Polk County, Florida, the sheriff’s office arrested a total of 219 suspects, which included three Disney employees, a high school teacher and an athletic director.
• The Polk County Sherriff’s Office said, “There were 83 suspects arrested for soliciting a prostitute and traveling to the undercover location to negotiate having sex in exchange for money.”
• Sheriff Grady Judd said, “Not only did we arrest more suspects during this single operation than we have ever arrested before, we identified 21 human trafficking victims; during a similar operation in February, we identified 24 victims. That’s 45 victims we were able to identify this year. The valuable relationships that we have with the social services organizations who join us in these operations make it possible for these women to get help and be emancipated from this way of life.”

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