Category Archive for : ‘JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER AND OTHERS REGISTRATION’

Newsday/Anthony M. Destefano

Jamali Brockett, 24, of Brooklyn, was arrested along with an associate on charges that theyforced girls and women between the ages of 15 to 20 years old to be prostitutes, advertising theirservices on Craigslist with the lines Very Freaky Girl and Super Sexy.  The women metclients in Long Island and city hotels, as well as in a Crown Heights apartment off LeffertsAvenue.  The girls received about $200 for an hour of sex with clients and turned over all thecase to Brockett, who paid for their food, clothing

FBI

In a Virginia hotel that ordinarily caters to business travelers and vacationers, FBI agentsand local police officers were encountering a different kind of clientele.  Throughout Fridayevening, a handful of prostitutes came thinking they had made an appointment with a customer inRoom 403.  Instead, it was a sting.  The customer was really an undercover cop. The arrests that followed were similar to those playing out across the nation last week during a three-day sweep called Operation Cross Country II.  Thegoal: get child victims of prostitution off the streets and into protective

FBI.gov

Today the FBI announced the results of an unprecedented five-day nationwide sweep targetingcriminals involved in trafficking children for prostitution in the United States.  The stings,dubbed Operation Cross Country, spanned 16 cities and resulted in the arrest of 389 people andthe recovery of 21 children.  – In Kansas, Don L. Elbert, III forced three underage sisters – two of whom were 14 year oldtwins – into prostitution.  He was captured and pled guilty to child sex trafficking in Mary2007.  In January, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. –

FBI

Today, the FBI, the Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing and ExploitedChildren joined together to mark the five-year anniversary of the Innocence Lost initiative andto announce recent enforcement actions taken against criminals engaged in the domestic traffickingof children for prostitution.  To date, Innocence Lost investigations have led to theconviction of 308 individuals on a combination of state and federal charges.  Moreimportantly, their efforts have led to the recovery of 433 child victims.
(Washington, D.C.)

United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against Lavon Carter, Jr., 20, of Vallejo, and his mother Laverne Vaughn, 36, also of Vallejo, charging them with various crimes involving the sex trafficking of a minor.  Previously, a federal grand jury had returned an indictment charging Carter with one count of sex trafficking of children, and three counts of interstate transportation of a minor with the intent that the minor engage in prostitution.  The superseding indictment returned today, adds Vaughn as

James Colliton, a 43 year old lawyer, was nabbed in a Manhattan hotel on March 3, 2006, a week after going into hiding to avoid arrest on charges of paying a mother for sex with her two underage daughters.  The father of five was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty to charges of second degree rape, patronizing a prostitute and bribing a witness.  Colliton is accused of paying to have sex with two underage sisters in his East 56th Street pied a terr   first with one girl when