Tip in 2009 Led to N.C. Human Trafficking Bust, 40 Arrests - News-Record.com: News
A tip nearly five years ago led to the arrests of 40 people, including 30 in Winston-Salem, over the past few years on state and federal charges of human trafficking, prostitution and kidnapping, authorities said Thursday.
In August 2009, a Winston-Salem resident gave investigators a tip about a brothel, said Lt. David Lamb of the Winston-Salem Police Department.
Investigators eventually learned that the brothel was part of an organized prostitution ring that moved women and girls in and out of the state, Lamb said.
An undercover police detective who worked on the case said that the victims paid to be smuggled into the U.S. and were told that they would get legitimate jobs here. When they arrived, though, they were forced into prostitution, the detective said.
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