Officials in a Florida county announced last week that 244 suspects were arrested during a multi-day operation targeting human trafficking.
In a statement on May 16, Polk County Sheriff’s officials said that the suspects arrested over nine days were allegedly “involved in illegal acts related to soliciting prostitutes, offering to commit prostitution, or aiding/abetting or transporting prostitutes.”
The office said that federal offices, including the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Division, were involved, along with local law enforcement.
Notably, 36 people who were arrested were in the United States illegally from eight different countries: Venezuela, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil, according to the statement….