How we tackled the sex trafficking investigation

How we tackled the sex trafficking investigation

Here’s how the Lee Enterprises Public Service team did a first-of-its-kind analysis of states’ efforts to protect women who are subject to sex trafficking at illicit massage parlors.

D.A. Bragg Announces Pleas In Sex Trafficking Operation

JONATHAN RUIZ Pleaded Guilty to Trafficking Multiple Women, and Running Prostitution Operation from Rikers While Awaiting Trial Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg today announced the guilty plea of JONATHAN RUIZ, a/k/a “Saiint,” 32, for conspiring to violently traffic multiple women in their mid-twenties, forcing them to engage in commercial sexual acts in at least six states, including New York. RUIZ coerced the women by beating them, bran…