Nine arrested in sprawling Santa Clara County sex-trafficking ring

Santa Clara County prosecutors Tuesday announced nine arrests in what they said was a sprawling Bay Area sex-trafficking ring in which 18 prostitution victims from South America and Mexico were for…

A man has been convicted of four felony counts in the human trafficking of a then 15-year-old girl in Oakland last year. Santa Clara County prosecutors Tuesday announced nine arrests in what they said was a sprawling Bay Area sex-trafficking ring in which 18 prostitution victims from South America and Mexico were forced to work seven days a week in San Jose and East Bay hotel rooms.

The suspects have been charged with crimes ranging from human trafficking and conspiracy to commit human trafficking to pimping, pandering, and money laundering in what prosecutors called one of the largest trafficking operations in the state and the first wiretap-based trafficking case in Santa Clara County.

The District Attorney’s Office said the women who were being trafficked are being provided counseling, medical care, housing assistance and other services. One of the victims, an underaged teenager from a South American country, was located on Thursday during the takedown of the operation. She was taken to the District Attorney’s Office Advocacy Center for care.

The state Department of Justice, FBI, police in San Jose, Santa Clara, Gilroy, Hayward and Sacramento, the Alameda County Sheriff and other authorities joined in the case they dubbed “Operation Phoenix.

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