An elementary school teacher, a college professor and a pair of U.S. Air Force members are among 160 people charged in a statewide human trafficking crackdown in Ohio, the state’s top prosecutor said Tuesday.
In addition to the arrests, “Operation Buyer’s Remorse” identified more than 100 human trafficking survivors, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced in a news release. The arrests began Sept. 25 and lasted through Saturday. They took place in “every corner of the state” including in and around Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, Youngstown, Marietta and Portsmouth.
It was “a concerted effort to stem the demand that fuels human trafficking,” Yost said, pointing to the involvement of nearly 100 law enforcement agencies and human service organizations across the Buckeye State. The attorney general’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission led the operation.
