Attempted Kidnapping Of Girl Stokes Human Trafficking Fears In Sacramento
Witnesses say a young girl was almost kidnapped from a local market. A 29-year-old woman is behind bars.
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Witnesses say a young girl was almost kidnapped from a local market. A 29-year-old woman is behind bars.
New policies around sexual education are being implemented at Rocklin Unified School District, which includes discussion about sex trafficking.
The FBI says a nationwide crackdown on child trafficking has recovered 84 children and captured 120 alleged traffickers, including several arrested in California.
In 2008, it received 3,514 calls, including just a few hundred from trafficking victims. In 2016, there were 26,727 calls, including more than 4,600 from victims.
Of 190 identified sex-trafficking victims in 2014, Arizona State University researchers found two-thirds were under 18 years old, one in five was brought to southern Nevada from somewhere else and more than half were never reported as missing.
For the first time in its efforts to crack down on sex trafficking during the Super Bowl, the FBI will try to reach out to women and girls selling sex in the run-up to the game to give them a way out and get them to turn against their traffickers.
A Billings man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to purchase two women to use as sex slaves in what he called a stone dungeon in the basement of his residence.
She spent weeks locked in a room, taken from the city ranked by the FBI as the second-worst city for sex trafficking, and shuttled between two Redding apartments.
Investigators tell CBS13 that the family called from a Denny's off of Interstate 80 in Sacramento saying that the teen was being held at a local motel.
Sacramento is Northern California's gateway for human trafficking in part because of its location. The Interstate 80 corridor makes moving people easy.
CBS13's Ron Jones recently spoke with a woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking.
The FBI says 12 children have been rescued and 17 alleged pimps were arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of a nationwide crackdown on child sex trafficking.
Sources tell CBS13 they are all over 18 years old, foreign born and of Asian descent. Authorities say in many cases like this, it's the only life they've ever known.
One of Sacramento's most wanted has been arrested, accused of allegedly pimping an underage girl.
A family of Sacramento women all pleaded guilty for their involvement in the prostitution and sex trafficking of underage girls in the Sacramento area.
A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to three counts of sex-trafficking of underage girls, while two co-defendants face charges for posting photographs of the girls online as a way to attract customers, the U.S. attorney's office said Friday.
The man convicted of violently forcing underage girls into prostitution for years was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 10 years of probation, authorities said.
Driving under the influence is believed to be a factor in a crash that left a driver dead and three passengers injured early Saturday morning in South Sacramento, authorities said.
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Driving under the influence is believed to be a factor in a crash that left a driver dead and three passengers injured early Saturday morning in South Sacramento, authorities said.
The 5 Freeway north of Los Angeles was closed for hours and a shelter-in-place order was issued to more than 19,000 residents in Castaic after a natural gas line ruptured on Saturday afternoon.
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Russell Westbrook scored 21 points and moved past Magic Johnson for seventh place on the NBA's career assists list while leading the Sacramento Kings to a 113-107 win over the Dallas Mavericks.
Just before 6:30 p.m., a man called officers, saying his brother had brandished a gun and threatened to shoot their mother, police said.
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Driving under the influence is believed to be a factor in a crash that left a driver dead and three passengers injured early Saturday morning in South Sacramento, authorities said.
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