An undercover human trafficking sting in Florida has resulted in the arrests of 157 suspects, including illegal immigrants, officials announced on Wednesday.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd revealed in a press conference that the alleged offenders were arrested in a five-day, multi-agency sting called “Operation Autumn Sweep.”
The suspects solicited prostitutes and those who offered to commit prostitution, and other suspects committed crimes related to prostitution, according to the sheriff.
Illegal Immigrants Arrested
Of the 157 arrested, 25 are in the United States illegally from Cuba, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela.
“Sixteen percent of these total arrests were people who should not even have been in this country,” Judd said. “But they were here. And they were here because we have a federal government that enabled these criminals to come into the country and then treated them very well after they came here illegally.”…