Feds Say DFW A Hub For Human Trafficking, Several Children Rescued With Help From Local Police

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

March 11, 2021

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Often lured online or looking to escape unstable homes, federal law enforcement partners say human trafficking is exploding right before our unseeing eyes.

“Quite frankly, there’s a lot of money to be made,” said Ryan Spradlin, special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations Dallas. Spradlin says human trafficking is a billion-dollar criminal enterprise, where people and children are bought and sold at a rate second only to drugs.

“Unlike narcotics, where that contraband is being consumed, and then you run out of it and have to bring in more or order more, we’re talking about human beings that can be exploited over and over and over again,” said Spradlin.

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