press release December 11, 2014
On December 5th, 2014, The Gloucester Township Police Department with assistance of the Camden County Prosecutors Office, New Jersey State Police, Magnolia Police Department, Pine Hill Police Department and the Runnemede Police Department conducted a proactive operation targeting subjects promoting prostitution and who are engaging in Human Trafficking. The operation involved an undercover officer who posed as a customer ordering prostitutes from a website.
The hotel’s staff and management were fully cooperative with law enforcement. The goal of the operation was not to target the prostitutes themselves, who are often women with drug addictions, mental health issues and homeless, but to target those promoting prostitution and the networks that facilitates the sex trade. Eight persons were arrested on charges of Prostitution and Promoting Prostitution.
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