A Los Angeles-area man has been arrested and charged on suspicion of human trafficking after officials located a missing 17-year-old Orange County girl, officials announced May 5.
The girl was reported missing from her home in Irvine on April 28, the Anaheim Police Department reported Monday.
Investigators were told she was possibly being exploited for commercial sex, according to police.
Officers located the missing girl and her alleged trafficker, Alex Matthew Polidore, 23, of Hawthorne, together in Los Angeles.
Anaheim police arrested Polidore, and he was booked into the department’s detention facility in the early morning of April 30. The suspect was held on a parole violation and booked on several human trafficking-related offenses, police reported….