DOJ says 11 migrants indicted in multi-state sex trafficking, drug, firearms case

Federal prosecutors have charged 11 Venezuelan and Colombian nationals — 10 of whom the Justice Department says are currently unlawfully present in the United States — in a sweeping, multi-state criminal case alleging the defendants trafficked a minor and an adult woman for sex while also dealing drugs and illegally trafficking firearms, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Ten of the defendants were arrested Tuesday during coordinated law enforcement operations in Ohio, Tennessee, North Ca