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Aug. 10—Staff report COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the first-ever statewide human trafficking hotline during his opening remarks at the office's fifth annual Human ...
Ohio task forces charged with investigating drug trafficking experienced significant increases in cocaine and psilocybin, or psychedelic mushroom seizures in 2023, according to a report released ...
[2] 24 out of 88 counties have no human-trafficking training or access to victim services. [3] A recent study estimated that between 2014-2016, 1,032 Ohio youth and young adults were victims of human trafficking. [4] The National Human Trafficking Resource Center reported receiving 1,066 calls and emails in 2015 about human trafficking in Ohio. [5]
The Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force led the investigation, which involved multiple search warrants. Law enforcement officers recovered drugs and at least five guns through those search ...
The Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates that $100 billion worth of illegal drugs were sold in the US in 2013. [1] In the fiscal year of 2023, a total of 19,066 cases related to drugs were reported, with drug trafficking accounting for 18,939 of these cases.
The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Aug. 1 that 19 people, including one person from Ohio, were indicted by a federal grand jury for participating in a large-scale drug trafficking organization.
Drug trafficking organizations are defined by the United States Department of Justice as, "complex organizations with highly defined command-and-control structures that produce, transport, and/or distribute large quantity "Law enforcement reporting indicates that Mexican DTOs maintain drug distribution networks, or supply drugs to distributors, in at least 230 U.S. cities."
Meanwhile, sex trafficking has become the second fastest-growing criminal industry in the United States, with an estimated 1,000 victims of all ages annually in Ohio, according to Gracehaven.