Thursday, May 24, 2012

Johnelle L. Bell, 27, Arrested For Alleged Sex Trafficking Using Backpage.com Ads

Johnelle L. Bell, 27, Arrested For Alleged Sex Trafficking Using Backpage.com Ads:
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A nationwide sex trafficking ring run by a violent pimp and his associates used Backpage.com to solicit customers for prostitutes as young as age 17, advertising the women as "smokin' hot babes," according to a federal indictment recently unsealed in Iowa.
A 50-page indictment alleges a New Jersey man used coercion and violence to force women between 17 and 21 to act as his sex workers between November 2009 and June 2011, when investigators broke up the ring during a sting operation at a hotel in Omaha.

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