In Texas, the issue of prostitution and human trafficking is a growing problem, and massage parlors have become a significant front for these illicit activities.
The Shreveport Police Department's Vice Unit teamed up with the FBI's Human Trafficking Task Force and the Alcohol Tobacco Commission to conduct a two day undercover operations.
The Bossier Sheriff-Police Narcotics/Vice Task Force conducted a prostitution sting in Bossier City that resulted in arrests for prostitution and pandering, but also for murder and aggravated kidnapping of teenage girls.
The Bossier Sheriff-Police Narcotics Task Force has arrested three women and two men for prostitution, drugs and weapons charges during separate undercover operations in Bossier City this week.
There is one business that continues to flourish no matter how unstable the American economy seems to become: prostitution. And while lawmakers are currently struggling to figure out ways to keep the country from tipping right over the fiscal cliff, there are some that believe the solution lies in legalizing and taxing the sex trade.
In a ruling last week, the high court in Onterio, Canada found most of the nation’s laws governing prostitution unconstitutional. The Canadian parliament now has a year to amend the criminal code and the final result could be a fairly broad legalization of prostitution by our neighbor to the north.