sex trafficking

Minnesota U.S. Attorney General Andrew Luger stopped in St. Cloud today (Wednesday) to talk with local law enforcement. Luger is at the head of a big push to crack down on sex trafficking across Minnesota. He says getting out and making visits across the state helps his office and improves coordination among those who are trying to combat trafficking.

Sex trafficking is a growing industry among gangs and drug dealers who use women to make them money by selling sex. It's a crime syndicate that operates in the shadows of every city big and small and Stearns County is no different.

Lutheran Social Service in Brainerd is using a state grant to start two initiatives to help combat sex trafficking of young people.

A Brooklyn Park man has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking, just days before his trial was to begin in Stearns County District Court.

WAITE PARK -- A Brooklyn Park man is jailed after an investigation into sex trafficking and prostitution in the St. Cloud area. Waite Park Police say an investigation by the Central Minnesota Sex Trafficking Task Force learned of a woman who was actively being trafficked as a prostitute...

Prosecutors have charged five St. Paul residents in what authorities allege was a multistate sex-trafficking ring.

The Minnesota Public Safety Department says sex-trafficking convictions have doubled in the past year.

The last of four family members charged in a sex trafficking operation that spanned nearly two years in Minnesota has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.

A local boutique is teaming up with the orgainization Breaking Free to help victims of sex trafficking.