Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested 160 people—including a police officer, a Disney employee, and school teachers—throughout central Florida as part of a seven-day multi-agency undercover prostitution investigation that began on Aug. 30, 2022.
“The online prostitution industry enables traffickers and allows for the continued victimization of those who are being trafficked,” said Sheriff Grady Judd in a press release on Friday. “Our goal is to identify victims, offer them help, and arrest those who are fueling the exploitation of human beings (Johns) and those profiting from the exploitation of human beings.”
Judd added that prostitution resulted in “exploitation, disease, dysfunction, drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and broken families.”
Two trafficking victims and another five possible victims were identified in the operation dubbed “Fall Haul 2.” Deputies said that out of the 160 arrested, 26 claimed to be married, 15 were from other states including New York and California, 16 were living in Polk County, and seven are suspected of being illegal immigrants.
Drugs like cocaine, marijuana, and heroin were seized during the operation. The age of those arrested ranged from 19 to 64 years old, and the criminal histories of all arrested included 419 previous felonies and 619 previous misdemeanors, involving charges for kidnapping, robbery, and sex offenses.
Polk County detectives have charged those arrested with a total of 52 felonies and 216 misdemeanors.
“Many of these people were already well known to the criminal justice system,” said Judd in a press conference on Friday, adding that many of the arrested were from the Orlando area. “Central Florida needs to catch a clue. If you come here to commit crime, you’re coming here to go to our jail.” MORE
I don’t think that anyplace in Florida is very far from either the Atlantic ocean or the Gulf coast.
Quick and easy way to cure and rehabilitate these perverts.
BRING UP THE TREBUCHET!!!
One launch from either coast into the water will quickly cure them……if they survive.
This answers the question of why so many teachers are so excited and insistent about talking sex and sex techniques with children.
Disney? Well Disney had been gone around the bend for a long time.
I can’t help but envy a state that pursues criminals that actively engage in the destruction of society.
I have no problem with prostitution as it has been typically performed throughout the ages. People have to survive anyway they can. I’ve heard it said from some women that if a woman can sell her body for dinner and a movie, why not for cash? However, I do have a BIG problem with the forced human trafficking, especially if they are minors…death penalty does not go far enough as punishment. Is that what went on here? Were these people kept as sex slaves? The article is not that specific – just vague hints were provided.
@President Elect..
Gators gotta eat too.
Can anyone here believe whatever nonsense we read about Chicago with their literally impossible “Safe T” thing? While Florida makes some effort to arrest bad guys; Illinois wants to let them all out. Today’s incredible (And impossible) “News” was that the Chicago police are not allowed to chase armed robbers. Truly?
Disneyland now mostly pedophile free