sex trafficking

A St. Cloud woman has pleaded guilty for her role in a sex trafficking operation which took place in her north side home last April.

Four men were arrested as part of a sex trafficking and prostitution sting in the St. Cloud area. St. Cloud Police along with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and police departments from Minneapolis, Woodbury, St. Paul, and Plymouth conducted Operation Guardian Angel last Thursday.

A Waite Park pimp who was discovered after a 2014 shooting at the Waite Park Motel 6 has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison.

A man involved in the December 2014 shooting at the Waite Park Motel 6 has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking.

A man accused of controlling a St. Cloud woman with drugs and forcing her to prostitute herself more than 100 times over the span of about five months has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.

A man involved in the Waite Park Motel 6 shooting has pleaded guilty to his charges.

Stearns County's sex trafficking problem took to the national stage this week. County Attorney Janelle Kendall was invited to a national roundtable discussion on human trafficking in Washington D.C. to talk about the efforts here.

A Sauk Rapids man is going to prison for sex trafficking and promoting prostitution.

A Brooklyn Park man has been sentenced in a St. Cloud sex trafficking case. The Stearns County Attorney's Office says 39-year-old Terrell Fields was sentenced to just under 14 years in prison today (Thursday).

A St. Cloud couple is charged with sex trafficking after a woman went to a neighbor's house asking for help. Stearns County prosecutors have charged 37-year-old Jade Orcena and 26-year-old Elijah Milsap with four felony counts of sex trafficking.