Woman Arrested As Part of Human Trafficking Bust, Police Say

An additional arrest has been made in a human trafficking bust announced last week, Clearwater Police said Monday.

Holly Cannarelli, 55, is charged with racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering, according to authorities. Cannarelli is listed as a transient from Pinellas County in online arrest records.

Cannarelli was being held on $1 million bond in Pinellas County Jail along with two other men for their alleged involvement in a prostitution ring that stretched from Tampa to Sarasota and included a brothel in Pinellas County.

Peter D. Kitt, 41, of Tampa, and Shawn D. Franklin, 42, of St. Petersburg participated in the sex trafficking of approximately 16 women, officials said Friday.

A sting operation in Largo kicked off the investigation in June 2012, snaring Kitt, said Anthony Holloway, Clearwater Police chief, according to Bay News 9. 

Kitt, 41, would lure women aged 21-30 who worked in strip clubs to undergo training at a brothel in Pinellas. After the women were trained, they were sent to rooms throughout the Tampa Bay area to work as prostitutes, at times as far away as Sarasota.

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