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FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) – CBS47 Anchor Brian Dorman and Photojournalist Orlando Garcia went undercover with Fresno Police.
Only their cameras were rolling arsenic instrumentality enforcement agencies teamed up to instrumentality down those looking to wage for enactment successful Northeast Fresno.
Lt. Andre Benson with the Fresno Police Department says he's ne'er seen enactment trafficking successful the metropolis this bad.
Benson said quality trafficking is not conscionable atrocious for the victims, it's atrocious for everyone. Pimps are utilizing wealth from the streets to bargain weapons and drugs, successful crook driving up convulsive transgression - and it's not conscionable impacting the main streets anymore.
"What we present spot is quality trafficking going into residential areas, and this becomes a quality-of-life issue," said Benson. "We don't privation families to person to interest astir coming extracurricular and taking their kids to the autobus halt and worrying astir seeing prostitutes up and down the streets and enactment purchasers coming successful for enactment reasons successful their neighborhoods."
Several agencies are joining forces to tackle this situation from each sides.
"We are focusing connected each broadside of quality trafficking. We are one, wanting to rescue these survivors and victims from this lifestyle," said Benson. "We are going aft the quality trafficking - the radical who are putting these women retired connected the streets. And we are going aft the enactment purchasers. The individuals coming to prosecute successful this activity."
YourCentralValley.com was invited to travel on connected a sting cognition arsenic instrumentality enforcement targeted those who are retired to bargain sex. For the brave men and women connected the operation, the bulk undercover, it starts with a briefing.
Those successful the briefing are alerted to the procedures for the operation. Suspects arrested and transported to FPDHQ for processing, interview, and cite. Felony suspects volition beryllium booked into the Fresno County Jail. Impound vehicles with drivers arrested, followed by FPD policy.
From the briefing country to the streets, everyone is successful position. A squad of astir 40 radical is successful spot successful a vicinity and it didn't instrumentality agelong for guys to instrumentality the bait.
Undercover Decoy
What bash you want? Huh? Sex? For however much? 120? 120? Is that what you're looking for? For both? 150. Okay, 130. You privation both.
Police Radio Audio
Discussing pricing.
Undercover Decoy
Both. It's going to beryllium a lot. Like 200.
Police Radio Audio
It sounds similar he's asking for both.
Undercover Decoy
Right here, now. You privation both? Dos? For sex? For 200?
The operator of the achromatic pick-up motortruck was pulled implicit and arrested.
"It's going to marque idiosyncratic deliberation different," said the undercover supervisor. "The ones that we apprehension contiguous oregon mention retired contiguous oregon instrumentality to jailhouse today... the adjacent clip they privation to travel down present to effort to get these women, they're going to think, 'They walk by that woman, is it a cop? Could be.' If that stops them oregon deters them from wanting to bash thing similar this again, possibly it does, and that's our extremity today."
The supervisor with astir 14 years connected the occupation says helium sees enactment trafficking victims from each walks of life.
"I cognize a well-known Clovis family; their girl is successful this. I cognize the VICE squad has predominant interaction with her. Even though the antheral moving her is successful jailhouse close now. She is inactive retired present successful this beingness being passed astir from pimp to pimp," said the undercover supervisor.
The squad gets backmost into position, and different apprehension is made. This clip connected a residential thoroughfare - an country wherever kids tin beryllium seen doing yardwork and radical walking their dogs. After a little interruption from the rain, the undercover constabulary officers get backmost into place.
Undercover Decoy
You want afloat service? 100. 100? Okay, conscionable maine close here. Right down me. Turn astir and spell down this road.
Police Radio Audio
UC is advising that this conveyance she was talking astir conscionable took disconnected westbound.
The operator of the car was placed successful handcuffs, searched, and enactment successful the squad car. He's headed to jailhouse for processing. Three arrests successful astir 90 minutes.
As nighttime fell, the cognition was called disconnected due to the fact that of atrocious weather.
Dorman asked, "Your thoughts connected however things went today?"
"I deliberation that went truly well. You guys saw however speedy it is erstwhile we enactment the girls retired there, and conscionable if we wanted to, I cognize we had things slowed down from our past stop, but went well," said the undercover supervisor. "If the rainfall holds off, we tin get a batch much arrests. But thought it went well. Everybody was safe, our decoys are each safe, and that's what's astir important to me.
