Mike Dunleavy on Friday, in an effort to start his People First Initiative to fighting crime and other social ills in Alaska. Andrew Gorn, with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation.
The three elements that make up sex trafficking are force, fraud or coercion. Causing a minor to perform commercial sex acts, no matter the circumstances, is also considered sex trafficking, according to federal Uniform Crime Reporting standards. Tristan Grant, one of the traffickers convicted and sentenced in , fits that description, having moved to Alaska from another state, according to court documents.
The report for is not available yet. A federal database showing arrests for human trafficking crimes against a person also shows no arrests during those years at the federal level. Complete data for sex trafficking arrests by federal agencies from those years were not available at the time of publication. A report for is not yet available. Twelve cases of sex trafficking were reported to state and local authorities in those three years, and all were found to be credible reports. Cases forwarded to federal law enforcement agencies are included in that count.
Alaska State Trooper Capt. Andrew Gorn, with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation, says the operation to net customers of a fictitious prostitute was a successful one. Those acts are closely correlated and tied with other criminal activities in the state of Alaska.
Sex trafficking, human trafficking, drugs, assault, robbery and other crimes. Maxine Doogan, an advocate for sex workers, says law enforcement officers — and lawmakers — should focus on other parts of the problem of sex trafficking than adults soliciting sex from other consenting adults. Customers of trafficking victims are often the ones who call for help to get a victim out of a trafficking situation.
