Tag: Operation Cross Country
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Man sentenced in Jefferson County for human trafficking
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Roman Bear Rivera will serve 12 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for trafficking for sexual servitude. Arrested and charged in a nationwide sex trafficking sting known as Operation Cross Country, Rivera, 39, was sentenced Monday in Jefferson County. He also received 12 years…
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27 trafficking victims saved in Colorado after crackdown operation
The FBI and local Colorado law enforcement agencies recovered eight children and 19 adult victims of sex trafficking in July as part of Operation Cross Country, a yearly national crackdown, the FBI announced Wednesday. “Human trafficking, and especially sex trafficking for children, is a persistent and particularly destructive threat that causes unthinkable harm to the…