GUILFORD POLICE: Reports of Human Trafficking Arrest Are False

GUILFORD, CT - The Guilford Police Department are trying to beat back social media report that it made an arrest in a human trafficking attempt over the weekend.

On the department’s Facebook page, the department said that posts on social media claimed a woman was followed around and photographed in a “local establishment,” leading to a police investigation that ended in an arrest of a human trafficking suspect and the recovery of evidence are false.

Police said there was an incident that was not reported, but officers investigated the claim and contacted the woman in question.

“All the information being circulated on social media about an arrest and evidence of an attempted human trafficking has been inaccurately reported. Guilford detectives are currently working with the original complainant to document the incident accurately,” the department said on its Facebook page.