human trafficking

KDXU Sunrise Stories for August 23, 2023. 19 arrested through an undercover operation, A tech outage for a hospital, and an assault with a medieval mace.

An elected official in Arizona was charged with 11 felonies in Utah including human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud. Paul D. Petersen was arrested in Arizona Tuesday following charges by the Utah Attorney General’s Office. P...

A Las Vegas man faces 13 felony charges after being accused of having sex with a child prostitute while visiting St. George last year. Police said Darell Hopper, 31, admitted to having sex every day for nearly three weeks with a 17-year-old Las Vegas runaway after traveling with her to St...

A former St. George Police Department lieutenant has accepted a plea deal from prosecutors on June 18. Moss pleaded guilty to one third-degree felony exploitation of a prostitute and one misdemeanor charge of sexual battery. Sentencing is scheduled for August 20 in American Fork...

We live in what we consider to be a very safe area, but do we? Cammie Bowker , CEO and founder of Global Education phylanthropists , a non profit organization  that was organized around the idea of helping villagers worldwide. Cammie, talking with Andy on the Andy Griffin show says that there is a huge human trafficking problem right here in St. Geo...

A Southern Utah nonprofit is working to help survivors of human trafficking turn the trauma of their experiences into strength through the sport of rowing. St. George resident Amie Ellis founded the nonprofit Save the Next Girl after her daughter was reported missing two years ago. "It w...

According to Polaris, a non-profit group that fights human trafficking, 71 percents of the victims are on planes en-route to a life of sex, drugs, torture and possibly death. The airline industry is now joining the fight to combat this growing problem. ...

ST. GEORGE - A former St. George Police Department lieutenant and another man were arrested in an undercover human trafficking investigation in Utah County. On Valentine's Day detectives with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, Special Victims Task Force, and detectives with Lehi Police Department conducted undercover operations aimed at targeting human trafficking, officials say. I...