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Two Suburban Philly Businesses Shut Down For Prostitution Investigations Two Suburban Philly Businesses Shut Down For Prostitution Investigations
Two Suburban Philly Businesses Shut Down For Prostitution Investigations Two businesses in the Philadelphia suburbs have been shut down indefinitely following allegations of prostitution, authorities said. Authorities closed New Super AcuCare on Oxford Valley Road in Fairless Hills and West Trenton Day Spa on West Trenton Avenue in Morrisville on Friday, March 11 after Falls Township police determined that the businesses were "promoting prostitution and human trafficking," they said. Investigators say they recovered "a multitude of evidence" to support those claims during a warranted search of both businesses. They also discovered a slew of code violations…

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by Nicole Acosta
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GOTCHA! Teaneck Fugitive Accused Of Running Sex Trafficking Ring Captured At Newark Airport GOTCHA! Teaneck Fugitive Accused Of Running Sex Trafficking Ring Captured At Newark Airport
Gotcha! Teaneck Fugitive Accused Of Running Sex Trafficking Ring Captured At Newark Airport A fugitive from Bergen County wanted for running a massive sex-trafficking ring in North Jersey, Rockland and New York City was captured trying to re-enter the United States from Colombia, authorities confirmed. Birmania “Nancy” Rincon, 62, a Colombian national living in Teaneck, was among the ringleaders of a crew that forced dozens of women into prostitution, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. She was in the wind, however, when authorities seized 21 defendants during a series of early-morning raids at 19 homes and other locations in Bergen and Hudson counties exactly two weeks ag…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Pennsylvania Pimp Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Of Drugged Women In NJ Motels: Prosecutor Pennsylvania Pimp Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Of Drugged Women In NJ Motels: Prosecutor
Pennsylvania Pimp Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Of Drugged Women In NJ Motels: Prosecutor A 49-year-old man from Pennsylvania has been sentenced to 10 years in New Jersey state prison for human trafficking and failing to register as a sex offender, authorities said. Michael Tedesco, of Reading, admitted transporting women to motels in South Jersey to engage in paid sexual encounters that he arranged and then keeping a portion of what they earned for himself, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina. Tedesco pleaded guilty in December to first-degree human trafficking as well as third-degree failure to register as a sex offender for an unrelated offense, Coffina sa…

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by Jon Craig
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Missing Underage NJ Girl Rescued From Sex Trafficking Trio Missing Underage NJ Girl Rescued From Sex Trafficking Trio
Missing Underage NJ Girl Rescued From Sex Trafficking Trio An underage girl who'd been reported missing was rescued from a trio of South Jersey human traffickers who were prostituting her, authorities said. Marquise Ogawa, 28, Chyaire Lee, 26, and Jazmin Scott, 21, all of Lawnside, were being held in the Camden County Correctional Facility in Camden, charged with various child prostitution, trafficking and endangerment counts. The victim was reported missing out of Voorhees in late October of last year, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck and New Jersey State Police Supt. Col. Patrick J. Callahan said in a joint release Tuesday. Detectives fro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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3 Pennsylvanians Charged In Human Trafficking, Drug Smuggling Ring, State Police Say 3 Pennsylvanians Charged In Human Trafficking, Drug Smuggling Ring, State Police Say
3 Pennsylvanians Charged In Human Trafficking, Drug Smuggling Ring, State Police Say Pennsylvania State Police have charged two Berks County men and a Lancaster County woman in connection with a drug distribution and human trafficking ring operating in and around Reading, Berks County. Hector M. Rivera, 50, of Reading; Dushawn O. Ellis, 31, of Reading; and Bridget M. Thompson, 36, of Lancaster; have been charged with various crimes related to corrupt organizations, trafficking individuals, prostitution, and other related offenses. "Human trafficking is prevalent in our own communities within the commonwealth," said Major Jeremy Richard, director of the Pennsylvania State Po…

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by Jillian Pikora
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PA Man Offers $300, Travels To South Jersey For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl, AG Says PA Man Offers $300, Travels To South Jersey For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl, AG Says
PA Man Offers $300, Travels To South Jersey For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl, AG Says A Pennsylvania construction employee was arrested on felony charges for allegedly traveling to South Jersey for sex with a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. Robert Reinhart, 52, of Telford, PA was one of 31 men arrested in a statewide crackdown of online child abuse titled "Operation 24/7," the New Jersey Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday. Reinhart allegedly texted an undercover detective who was posing as the adult sister of a fictitious 14-year-old girl, authorities said. He agreed to pay the older sister $300 to have sex with her "younger sister," autho…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Deportee Who Raped Paterson Girl, 15, After Illegally Re-Entering US Gets 7¾ Years Deportee Who Raped Paterson Girl, 15, After Illegally Re-Entering US Gets 7¾ Years
Deportee Who Raped Paterson Girl, 15, After Illegally Re-Entering US Gets 7¾ Years UPDATE: A deportee who snuck back into the U.S. and was living illegally in Paterson was sentenced Tuesday to 95 months in federal prison for raping a 15-year-old city girl. Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, a 35-year-old Mexican citizen who was born in Ecuador, had been deported in 2010, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. He'd re-entered the United States when he approached the girl in Passaic County in April 2019, had sex with her, then took her with him on a planned trip to Chicago, Honig said. They never made it that far, however. An Ohio state trooper pulled Morales-Pedraza’s 201…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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DA: Suburban Philly Man Busted In Hotel Prostitution Ring Held Woman Captive, Gave Her Drugs DA: Suburban Philly Man Busted In Hotel Prostitution Ring Held Woman Captive, Gave Her Drugs
DA: Suburban Philly Man Busted In Hotel Prostitution Ring Held Woman Captive, Gave Her Drugs A 25-year-old man was arrested after authorities found he had been running a prostitution ring in which he held a woman captive in a hotel in the Philadelphia suburbs, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office announced Monday. Cornell Scott-Milbourne, of Crum Lynne, was arrested on numerous charges relating to forcing women into sex for financial gains, aggravated indecent assault, sexual assault and more, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Deborah A. Lukens, who set bail at $1 million cash.  Detect…

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by Cecilia Levine
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PA Appeals Court Denies 'Sex Slave' Serial Rapist's Bid To Leave Prison Before Age 103 PA Appeals Court Denies 'Sex Slave' Serial Rapist's Bid To Leave Prison Before Age 103
PA Appeals Court Denies 'Sex Slave' Serial Rapist's Bid To Leave Prison Before Age 103 Pennsylvania serial rapist Seth Mull won't be getting out of prison any time soon. A state appeals court on Thursday denied the 33-year-old inmate's bid to leave prison before his term of 78 years to life is up, PennLive reports. He will not be eligible for parole until he is 103 years old. Mull was convicted of rape and human trafficking after a single trial in 2018.  The three victims -- between 19 and 25 years old -- said he held them captive, strangled, beat them, forced them to take drugs and threatened to tell their families. Mull, of Lower Saucon Township, treated the vic…

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by Cecilia Levine
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16 Missing Children Across Philadelphia Area Recovered In Multi-Agency Operation 16 Missing Children Across Philadelphia Area Recovered In Multi-Agency Operation
16 Missing Children Across Philadelphia Area Recovered In Multi-Agency Operation A four-week operation by U.S Marshals and other local officials located 16 children who went missing from across the Philadelphia area --  including four believed to be involved in sex-trafficking, authorities announced. "Operation Safeguard," led by the U.S. Marshals Service Offices in Philadelphia, Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, and Bucks County Children Youth Service, was an "enforcement operation focused on human trafficking and the location and recovery of critically missing and exploited children," that ran from February 15 through March 15, according to a feder…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Authorities Smash International Sex-Trafficking Ring In NJ, NY, Rescue Dozens Of Victims Authorities Smash International Sex-Trafficking Ring In NJ, NY, Rescue Dozens Of Victims
Authorities Smash International Sex-Trafficking Ring In NJ, NY, Rescue Dozens Of Victims More than 50 women were forced into prostitution in North Jersey, Rockland County and New York City by male members of a large-scale international human trafficking ring run by three women from Teaneck and two men from Lodi, authorities said . A massive investigation into sex trafficking in both states culminated in a series of early-morning raids Wednesday at 19 homes and other locations in Bergen and Hudson counties – including Lodi, Teaneck, Englewood, Elmwood Park and Bergenfield. Detectives and uniformed police and sheriff's officers arrested 21 ring members. They also obtained a fug…

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by Jerry DeMarco