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Updated: August 24, am. In , there were prostitution offenses reported by police agencies statewide excluding some agencies in Scott and Jefferson counties, and in there were Locally, the increase is percent from to for people charged by Bowling Green police. But the actual numbers are low — one arrest in , three in and four in Another backpage. Then Milliken would have to decide if enough probable cause exists to issue an arrest warrant.
Police made traffic stops on the men leaving the hotel, and through conversation the men told police they had paid for sex. The men found the working girls on the Internet. When state police made the arrests, they found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the room, Harper said.
Everyone that I arrested last year and charged with prostitution, I found drugs at every one of them. Another more sinister prostitution-related crime gaining attention nationally and statewide is the element of human trafficking sometimes associated with the sex trade. Warren County saw its first case of human trafficking wind its way through the justice system earlier this year when a woman was sentenced to 20 years for pimping out an underage female relative.
Undocumented immigrants have been forced into prostitution. We have seen those cases prosecuted mainly at the federal level. With the amendments to our state human trafficking statutes from last session, I think you will see more of those investigations done at the state level.
