Sean "Diddy" Combs was denied bail a second time on Wednesday and he will remain in federal custody at a Brooklyn detention center. Sean "Diddy" Combs is facing three charges, including sex trafficking, stemming from an investigation by federal authorities. A husband and wife who were arrested in North Highlands are accused of sex trafficking two year-old girls, authorities said Monday.
A California bill that pushes for harsher penalties against people who buy sex from children moved forward Tuesday, but not without a fight between members of the public safety committee and the bill's author Senator Shannon Grove.
A man and a woman were arrested in connection to a sex trafficking investigation involving two minors that spanned Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said Thursday.
The list of names could include Epstein's accused co-conspirators and others named in a settled lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell. A California woman who recruited three teenage girls for prostitution, plying them with alcohol and drugs while advertising them online for sex acts, was sentenced Monday to 17 years and seven months in federal prison.
Law enforcement officials in Sacramento took part in a nationwide sweep dubbed "Operation Cross Country" and made two felony arrests for human trafficking offenses and five new human trafficking investigations with arrests pending. More than state, local and federal partners and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children conducted operations over a two-week period in August. Sacramento is making headlines for having one of the highest numbers of sex trafficking victims in the country over the last decade, according to a recent study.
