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8 arrested in Tennessee human trafficking sting allegedly sought sex acts from minors
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A two-day undercover human trafficking sting in Tennessee led to the arrests of eight males who allegedly sought to illicit intercourse from minors, investigators mentioned Monday.
The operation started Thursday as an effort to deal with human trafficking in East Tennessee, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) mentioned.
21 ARRESTED IN UTAH HUMAN TRAFFICKING STING, SOME VICTIMS TRAFFICKED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
Investigators put up a number of decoy commercials on web sites with identified hyperlinks to prostitution and business intercourse circumstances to determine people in search of to have interaction in intercourse acts with minors, the company mentioned.
Carl Joseph Cantrell, 33, of Dandridge, Tenn., Eric Burse Griffith, 40, of Robbins, Tenn., and Benjamin Jason Holt, 44, of Newport, Tenn., had been arrested in connection to a human trafficking operations, authorities mentioned.
(Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) )
The decoy adverts attracted eight males, all of whom had been arrested and booked into the Sevier County Jail.
Denis Tyulkin, 45, of Ravenna, Ohio and Tyler Ryan Arrington, 29, of Lebanon, Va., had been arrested in connection to a human trafficking operation, authorities mentioned.
(Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) )
TBI recognized the boys as Carl Joseph Cantrell, 33, of Dandridge, Tenn.; Eric Burse Griffith, 40, of Robbins, Tenn.; Benjamin Jason Holt, 44, of Newport, Tenn.; Denis Tyulkin, 45, of Ravenna, Ohio; Tyler Ryan Arrington, 29, of Lebanon, Va.; Raul Pedro, 27, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Kevin Leroy Baer, 66, of Westminster, Md.; and Ivan Kale Freeman, 30, of Knoxville, Tenn.
Raul Pedro, 27, of Knoxville, Tenn., Kevin Leroy Baer, 66, of Westminster, Md., and Ivan Kale Freeman, 30, of Knoxville, Tenn., had been arrested in connection to a human trafficking operations, authorities mentioned.
(Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) )
All eight males face one depend of solicitation of a minor. Griffith faces a further depend of soliciting exploitation of a minor.
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The undercover operations concerned a number of regulation enforcement companies together with the TBI Human Trafficking Unit, the Sevierville Police Division, the Pigeon Forge Police Division, the Gatlinburg Police Division, the Sevier County Sheriff’s Workplace Road Crimes Unit, and the workplace of 4th Judicial District Lawyer Basic James Dunn.