While Shannon was still working to resolve Alyssa's case in Florida, across the country, in California, Ashton Kutcher and his team at Thorn had a breakthrough. In 2013, they createdSpotlight: a confidential software that had the potential to transform the...
Globally, drug trafficking is a multibillion dollar industry. As a profitable industry, illegal drug sales also fund the purchase of illegal weapons often used to fundorganized crimeand civil wars in developing countries. Even with stringent law enforcement efforts and penalties, authorities worldwide...
Between 2011 and 2020, there was an 84 percent increase in the number of people prosecuted for a federal human-trafficking offense. Of the defendants charged in 2020, 92 percent were male, 63 percent were white, 66 percent had no prior convictions, and 95 percent were U.S....
According to a news release, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Criminal Investigations Division, with the assistance of the Lumberton Police Department and Texas Rangers (DPS), arrested a California man on charges of trafficking of persons, a felony offense, on Tuesday, January 11, ...
In terms of prosecution, human trafficking was categorized as a severe offense in the Turkish Penal Code in 2005, with penalties ranging from 8 to 12 years in prison and a fine of up to ten thousand days (MFA 2022). Despite the development of a few legislative and administrative measures,...