Crime & Safety
2 in Columbia Arrested in FBI Child Sex Trafficking Sweep
Authorities arrested two people from Columbia in a nationwide bust of child sex trafficking.
Two people in Columbia were arrested in a nationwide FBI sweep targeting child sex trafficking.
William Jerome Gibson, 21, and Andrea Bostic, 20, are accused of recruiting a 16-year-old girl to use her for prostitution, according to a WIS-TV report.
Gibson and Bostic were among more than 150 people who were arrested during Operation Cross Country VII, a three-day enforcement action aimed at commercial child sex trafficking throughout the United States, according to a FBI release.
More than 105 children who were being victimized through prostitution were rescued across 76 cities.
Gibson, who was arrested at a hotel on Two Notch Road, was out on bond for a 2011 murder, according to the WIS-TV report.
Read more at WIS-TV.
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