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108 arrested in Polk County 'March Sadness' trafficking
Spectrum News ^ | 3/16/22 | SPECTRUM NEWS STAFF

Posted on 03/16/2022 5:00:19 PM PDT by infool7

The Polk County Sheriff's Office stated Wednesday that more than 100 arrests were made during a six-day human trafficking sting. "Operation March Sadness 2" started March 8, according to a press release.

Police departments in Winter Haven, Haines City, Lake Wales and Auburndale assisted in the investigation.

According to the Sheriff's Office, detectives identified prostitutes who posted online advertisements as well as the "johns" who were seeking them out online.

Detectives also identified and investigated adults who engaged in online "sexually charged" communications with those they believed were children.

"The arrests of a human trafficker and four child predators alone makes this whole operation worthwhile," stated Sheriff Grady Judd in a press conference. "The online prostitution industry enables traffickers and victimizes those who are being trafficked. Our goal is to identify victims, offer them help, and find and arrest those who are profiting from the exploitation of human beings. Johns fuel the trafficking and victimization. Where there is prostitution, there is exploitation, disease, dysfunction, and broken families."

Undercover detectives communicated online with the suspects and arranged for a meetup at a location where they were arrested after their arrival.

Members of anti-trafficking organizations were on hand to speak with the prostitutes to help determine if they were human trafficking victims.

The suspects ranged in age from 17 to 67.

As Judd was talking about some of the suspects who were caught, he focused on 27-year-old Xavier Jackson, who he said worked at Disney World.

“He thought he was chatting with a 14 year old. And he sent photos of himself doing things that’s totally inappropriate,” said Judd durig a press conference on Wednesday. “… Oh, did I mention that it just happens to be a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort for Disney? You think there’s a few children around there? That’s right. I didn’t stutter. He was a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort for Disney and was bragging about that.”

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office assisted in Jackson’s arrest, who is from Orlando, Judd said.

Jackson was charged with three counts of harmful material and one count of unlawful communication.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: biden; childabuse; disneypedos; marchmadness; pederasts; pedophilesinflorida; podesta; sting; trafficking
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Though it's sad to hear that this sort of thing continues to happen, I'm glad to see that there are good people in the fight working tirelessly to eliminate and bring to justice the criminals preying on our children.

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1 posted on 03/16/2022 5:00:19 PM PDT by infool7
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To: infool7

Sheriff Brady is a legend


2 posted on 03/16/2022 5:04:50 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: infool7
You should understand, however, that LE has stopped saying they are making a prostitution bust because they know the public thinks they have better things to do. Every vice bust is now called "trafficking." So, we'll find out later if any of these women actually were trafficked.

For example, the bust of the Florida massage parlor Kraft was caught in was called a trafficking bust but it eventually came out none of the women had really been trafficked.

3 posted on 03/16/2022 5:05:42 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: infool7

IIRC Floria is one of the top 4 or 5 states for human trafficking.


4 posted on 03/16/2022 5:07:58 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: infool7

I don’t understand why some adults can sexualize children, or even teenagers. I don’t know. Even in my 20s I dated older women.


5 posted on 03/16/2022 5:08:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (The GOP is the UN of US politics)
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To: infool7

The pictures they post always look like the bar scene from Star Wars. Eech.


6 posted on 03/16/2022 5:09:40 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: colorado tanker

Just a hunch but

would you say that adult prostitution

should be legal/normalized?

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7 posted on 03/16/2022 5:13:07 PM PDT by infool7 (Those that make peaceful (counter)revolution impossible make violent rebellion inevitable. - JFK)
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To: colorado tanker

Yup, suddenly all prostitution is ‘trafficking’ these days. Its rampant in international stories. Alot of these women who have no idea they are considered slaves chat with activists for a few minutes then go back to their life freely switching between sex work and their day job unaware that they’re now written into a story about human trafficking.


8 posted on 03/16/2022 5:14:50 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think it comes from bad/no parenting

generations of children raising children eventually

leads to severely messed up adults

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9 posted on 03/16/2022 5:16:35 PM PDT by infool7 (Those that make peaceful (counter)revolution impossible make violent rebellion inevitable. - JFK)
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To: infool7

prostitution is a moral issue not a legal one. Society has no business chasing down and busting grown men and women engaging in a consensual relationship while feeding children sex change drugs is legal and encouraged.


10 posted on 03/16/2022 5:16:52 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: rrrod

Sheriff Grady Judd. :)


11 posted on 03/16/2022 5:19:47 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: jarwulf

Would you consider hiring woman engaged in “sex work”

a normal activity for yourself? Just asking...

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12 posted on 03/16/2022 5:20:21 PM PDT by infool7 (Those that make peaceful (counter)revolution impossible make violent rebellion inevitable. - JFK)
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I’ve never hired a prostitute but I don’t really obsess on someone who does like you imply we should. Some guys just can’t get it any other way and prostitution/’trafficking’ hysteria is just part of the way old jealous spurned feminists use the system to try to control men’s private lives.

Sure there are moral/religious dimensions to the argument over prostitution but I believe the hypocrisy of a society which tries to stamp out men and heterosexual behavior while giving free rein and encouragement to the opposite is a bigger problem that needs to be fixed first.


13 posted on 03/16/2022 5:30:55 PM PDT by jarwulf
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“For example, the bust of the Florida massage parlor Kraft was caught in was called a trafficking bust but it eventually came out none of the women had really been trafficked.”

Interesting how all these only Chinese women not fluent in English made their way to a ring of massage parlors in Florida!


II. THE SEX RING
On February 19, after staging dramatic raids on nearly a dozen massage parlors in South Florida, Sheriff William Snyder held a press conference. Local officers, he announced, working alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, had busted a $20 million sex trafficking ring with tentacular reach to New York and China. Many of the women, he said, had been tricked into coming to the United States and had been working to pay off debts to traffickers before being rescued. “I don’t believe they were told they were going to work in massage parlors seven days a week, having unprotected sex with up to 1,000 men a year,” Snyder said.

Sex trafficking, under law, involves recruiting and transporting women by force or fraud, and coercing them to work as prostitutes. The traffickers, Snyder continued, had covered their tracks by moving the women every 10 to 20 days to different spas, where they were forced to sleep on massage tables and cook on hot plates. Some were unable to leave, the sheriff said, because the traffickers confiscated their money and passports.


14 posted on 03/16/2022 5:31:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: jarwulf

“Yup, suddenly all prostitution is ‘trafficking’ these days. Its rampant in international stories. Alot of these women who have no idea they are considered slaves chat with activists for a few minutes then go back to their life freely switching between sex work and their day job unaware that they’re now written into a story about human trafficking.”

CT misspoke. See my #14.


15 posted on 03/16/2022 5:33:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: colorado tanker

Human Trafficking Suspect: 32-year old Tiffany Nash of Orlando was arrested for trafficking another woman in prostitution. The woman, an adult female, arrived at the residence as a prostitute, but an investigation revealed that Nash repeatedly threatened violence against the victim if she didn’t prostitute herself. Nash would take all money derived from the victim’s prostitution. When Nash arrived at the location to check on the victim, she was taken into custody and charged with: Human Trafficking (F1), Deriving Proceeds from Prostitution (F2), Possession of Cocaine (F3), Possession of Methamphetamine (F3), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (M1). Nash’s victim was provided the assistance of one of the anti-trafficking organizations.

Child Predators: 39-year old Timothy Finley of Mulberry began communicating online with an undercover detective, thinking he was chatting with a 13-year old female. Finley traveled to the residence with the intent for sexual conduct with her. He was arrested and charged with: Travel to Meet a Minor/Using Computer to Lure (F2), Attempted Lewd Battery (F3), Transmit Material Harmful to Minor (F3), Possession of Methamphetamine (F3), Resisting (M1), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (M1).

41-year old Shannon Johnson of Orlando believed he was chatting online with a 13-year old female, sent a nude photo, and then travelled to the residence with the intent for sexual conduct with her. He was arrested and charged with: Travel to Meet a Minor/Using Computer to Lure (F2), Attempted Lewd Battery (F3), and Transmit Material Harmful to Minor (F3).

36-year old Jody Rose of Gainesville communicated online and via text with an undercover detective posing as a 13-year old girl. Rose sent sexual images and graphic descriptions of what he wanted to do. A warrant was obtained on Rose for Transmission of Material Harmful to a Minor (10-counts, F3) and Unlawful Use of 2-Way Communication Device (F3), and he was arrested in Alachua County.

27-year old Xavier Jackson of Kissimmee communicated online and via text with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year old girl. During the communication, Jackson sent sexual images and graphic descriptions of what he wanted to do. A warrant was obtained for Jackson for Transmission of Material Harmful to a Minor (3-counts, F3) and Unlawful Use of 2-Way Communication Device (F3).


16 posted on 03/16/2022 5:41:43 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator
That was from the Sheriff's original press release. It was months later he quietly admitted none of the women had been trafficked and no trafficking charges had been brought.

Now, trafficking does happen and it's not just sex work. But I think by conflating two different activities and offenses LE will erode their credibility on fighting actual trafficking, which is a very serious crime.

17 posted on 03/16/2022 5:42:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

And it’s all goes into the human trafficking statistics. As do other things that the general public would not consider appropriate to add. Human trafficking is beyond evil, but the bullshit surrounding it is sky high. It’s big business and raising awareness or funds for yet another two bit worthless organization formed to fight it is a favorite way for people to make themselves feel important.


18 posted on 03/16/2022 5:50:43 PM PDT by JimSp
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Well, you smoked me out. :-))

It won't happen anytime soon but I would support a legalize but regulate policy similar to what most European countries have.

19 posted on 03/16/2022 5:55:44 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: jarwulf

Well thanks for clearing that up for me.

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20 posted on 03/16/2022 5:59:48 PM PDT by infool7 (Those that make peaceful (counter)revolution impossible make violent rebellion inevitable. - JFK)
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