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out uh to pke County Florida that is where uh we had uh Sheriff Grady jut coming to talk about a major bust involving human trafficking let's listen on live now from Fox for being with us here today this is going to take a few minutes because it was a very large operation but I want to start by introducing you to some of our colleagues that joined us this time with this operation we could not do this without our counselor so I want to start with them one more child Jody dingi Harland for childre

n Kaden parchment and S of Freedom Sarah belder in addition to that this operation was on the west side of the county in the City of Lakeland and we were assisted by several police departments a special Thanks goes to the Lakeland Police Department we have assistant chief pachu here with us today they donated a lot of resources for us this time and it's really appreciative it the and the support by all of these police departments was over the top H City Police Department's represented today by d

etective uh dominez devonport Chief Steve Parker's with us we also have the auale police department with us uh detective Kevin SE more Lake Hamilton Chief Mike Teague and the Winter Haven fire rescue was with us Hunter Hart and that wasn't just if things got real hot they'd put the fire out but I imagine they would have if it had have happened but it's important to point out that in this County we don't operate in silos of separate law enforcement agencies we're all friends we all respect and an

d love each other and we all work together and you're going to see the outcome when you have great police agencies work with you I'm going to give you a lot of information quickly and then the reporters can narrow in on whatever they're interested in 228 arrest 66 prostitutes 50 Johns and 12 others this time we identified 13 potential victims of human trafficking but I want to make this statement today in one year we have identified 58 potential victims of human trafficking in one year with thes

e operations what's significant about that that is the most ever we've been able to identify and why were we able to identify this many potential victims of human trafficking because of these ladies that's standing with us we do something that most police agencies run from if they do these kinds of operations at all we embed our counselors with us from the absolute very beginning of the operation even before they are every bit as important to our investigation as our detectives that go undercove

r and many times risk their lives so I want to once again thank our social service organizations for joining us from the beginning 42 of the 228 that we arrested were from P County now those of you from P County know better we talk about this we don't hide it and if you don't know about it you obviously live under a rock so you had to learn the hard way but for the rest of you pay attention because this is not the last operation we'll have more and we'll give you the opportunity to be arrested i

f you're stupid enough to show up that's a guarantee in addition to that 42 of these folks were married and I've got some quotes from wives that I'll give you in a little bit and some people say well this is not a big deal but at the end of this operation I'm going to talk about the 21 illegal aliens we arrested in much more detail criminal charges oh it's a lowlevel misdemeanor and these aren't violent people these people had a previous history of 238 arrests did you hear what I said these peop

le are criminals in their own right most of them not all of them 879 previous felonies 1,159 previous misdemeanors we dealt with 17 Firearms This Time by 15 different Suspects 44 people brought narcotics 12 people came and had outstanding warrants we appreciate that they came to us we didn't have to chase them down one was a commercial pilot we had all branches of we had a branch of the military and teachers and I'm going to talk specifically about those in a minute but the comments one wife sen

t the detective a message the next day she said good one guys thank you for helping me in my marriage keep doing what you're doing one John said he worked overtime today and he just needed to blow off some steam well we gave him a chance to also cool as Hills in the county jail another one said well I came here because you know I'm going to be incapacitated for 10 days I got to turn myself in Monday at the county jail for 10 days the judge sentenced me to previously wait you don't have to turn y

ourself in we're going to give you a ride and some additional criminal charges to go through it one John John's who was married said well sometimes you just need to see something different well he did he saw a different woman but she was undercover then he got to see the jail I would hate to see what it's like at his house when his wife who's obviously going to watch this finds out that he just needed to see something different and then there was a John that was married for 26 years he said his

wife was at the Hard Rock Casino and he was at yall thought I was going to say something but I'm not but it didn't turn out to be the Hard Rock Casino it did turn out to be the rock known as Grady town or the county jail one John was married he said he came here to play golf well I got to tell you I've heard it called a lot of stuff but never playing golf and there was no hole in one one John said he left his wife in five children at home one prostitute said she'd only been here two days she was

here from New York to make money and instead she came to New York on vacation and she's going to leave here on probation but let's talk about specific people real quickly as I go through this here is first we'll start with our athletes this is Edwin madino he's 54 he's from New York City New York he's self-employed according to him as a volleyball all tutor he used to be a coach at Monroe Junior College in New York we don't know if he's still a coach or not he said he tutors children as young a

s middle school he came for sex with a lady he wanted to pay $150 oh by the way in January of this year he was arrested in Hillsborough County for what the same thing he's married but his wife's proud of him to arrest in two counties in Central Florida I don't know if this gets to New York City or not but we'll put it on social media and she'll have all options Benjamin Johnson he's from Plant City he's a golf pro he's also an athlete at Eaglebrook in Lakeland that's right he's PGA specialized t

eacher in coach and he came for sex with a female 150 bucks he has a criminal history of of uh cannabis and dealing and stolen property so he can teach you to play golf or he can teach you how to deal in stolen property or how to get caught at dealing and stolen property then there's Wilman Santa Cruz not to be confused with Santa Claus he's 50 he says he's a triathlon coach a certified Triathlon Coach and he's a triathlon athlete you know what's strange about this the dude showed up with meth I

mean does that help you perform better when you're a triathlon athlete or do Triathlon athletes who you would think would be the kind of people who took care of their body was using meth and seeking out the interest of a lady of the evening then there's Sergio Collins he currently is a pro Progressive Insurance claim adust Jer but he's married I bet his wife's not happy and he says on his LinkedIn page that he's a middle school football coach at Lakeland Christian School they said no way he is

not a coach at Lakeland Christian schools so when you're doing your press don't look him up online and take Sergio at his word the school says absolutely not he thought he was going to have come have sex but then of course if you're going to have coaches and teachers you might as well have a straightup teacher this is Jean aumi he's 26 from arandell he's a teacher at New Beginnings High School where he teaches math and science he came to have sex he called it a quick visit for $60 well since he'

s able to teach math he can figure out that it didn't add up when he came to this time then Brandy Barnes she's an IT specialist at Tampa General Hospital we're going to get to the medical world for a minute you know we did the coaches we did the teachers she has a criminal history of meth arrest and she provide she agreed to provide sex to an undercover for one hour okay then this is Lux and Jean brenell he's 8 he's married he's in the medical fear he's a RN a registered nurse at manate Springs

nursing home he wanted to have sex he has a criminal history of DUI so you can still work as a RN if you get drunk and drive I'm interested to see if they're going to do anything to his license for a morals Act of having trying to have sex we'll find out Lewis Navaro he's from Puerto Rico he's 61 he's a veterinarian he he retired from the USDA he came over to have sex but his veterinarian license is still current maybe I can talk the judge into putting him in the county jail because we always n

eed help with spaying neuters at Animal Control this is Tron Giles he's from Tampa we're going to the military now he's a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force he came for sex and he said well he's done this before about 6 months ago he doesn't learn very fast I can't believe their force would have a slow learner but I guess they do and then there's Jaden Hall he's 19 he scheduled to begin his Air Force training in May and oh my goodness he had a meltdown this can't happen to me this can't happen to m

e I'm going into the air force well maybe you are maybe you aren't who knows and then there's Brandon Bush he's active Air Force as well Air Force was the only branch of the service we CAU this or or Air Force wannabes he's stag at mcdell an Airman First Class he's not only in the military but he's a military police officer so since we talked about military and he's a military police officer let's get to our law enforcement officer ya C cusy he's 23 he used to be a detention Deputy for me we fir

ed him when he was arrested in Orange County on February the 9th no I take that back he resigned before we got around to firing him and then he we arrested him again on February the 20 23rd so on the 9th he got arrested in Orange County and resigned on the 23rd we arrested him again and he said hey is this is this a felony now that I'm arrested the second time he didn't pay attention in the police academy cuz he hasn't been convicted yet so why we were interviewing him and we go like dude what a

re you doing you went from being a stellar employee to committing morals crimes and it's two in a month he said I got a problem no kidding you got a big problem then there's ax Alex Everett he's 34 he says he's on disability he doesn't work so that we're paying him to do things like have sex he called it a quick visit in his car we found cocaine fentel cannabis a gun he picked up an armed trafficking and cocaine and Fentanyl charge in addition to to his misdemeanor soliciting charge oh he's got

a criminal history of robbery fleeing armed trafficking and he's spent eight and a half years in prison for some of those violent things he says he's on disability he's not disabled folks he's able to commit crime and if you're able to commit crime you ought to be able to go to work he just doesn't like to work obviously and then there's Joseph delloo he's 46 he's from Wildwood he's married he's a plumber he also said let me see if I can find it here he also said that uh he's a pagan he's a memb

er of an outlaw motorcycle group now he said a lot of things you know he they said he by the way he was super nice he's a relatively new member of the pagans and he explained all of this he was very proud of his outfit they call it colors see we asked him about this and he said well because I have this safety pin here we thought maybe it was for big underwear or something he said when you have it like this you're sending a message to all the other different motorcycle gangs that you're just pass

ing through and you're peaceful and you don't want any problem so he had his diaper pin pinned so he didn't want any problems but he got problems but he told our undercover you see there's rules about this jacket the rule is that well no one is supposed to touch this jacket okay but the member you see no one just and you must turn the jacket inside out to hang it up we chose not to do that too why we were not touching it he said that his wife was going to really be mad and he used other words we

ll we called her and guess what he was right she was really mad and I bet the pagans are really mad because see he's not been a member but just a few months and here now he's disparaged them and the cops have one of their jackets and they've been handling it and you know we didn't hang it up backwards or any of the other rules that they have but hey Joseph I don't know how well you you you do plumbing business but you don't do very well at following the rules with your Outlaw motorcycle game I'm

going to go over this really quick these two guys are brothers Omar 16 Caleb 17 they came down from Wesley Chapel which is in Pasco County and guess what they came down to Rob us at 16 and 17 we saw them slinking in the hallway listening through the door they tried to they set up the deal but it just wasn't right they were dressed all in black they had their face covered and when we took them down at their car they had a BB gun that looked like a real gun that could have gone really bad for the

m but instead they're just charged with soliciting and um and a bunch of other stuff oh by the way they have a criminal history for burglary in larney out of Hillsboro County just recently they're juveniles we're going to see how the system deals with them to get them in line so they don't end up with the rest of their life ruined but before I turn it over to my colleagues here they worked with us to make this happen and what this is and I want everybody to see it clearly federal policy drives i

llegal immigrant crime and victimization and that's the focus other than our victims of human trafficking listen folks I want to introduce you to Andre's Gil okay here's this guy he's also on this board but get a look at him for a second he came down here from New York with three females all of them are in the country illegally did you hear what I said they're all here illegally he's the one that comes with them to drive them these ladies are all controlled by a human trafficker we think their h

uman trafficker is a female she sets up their appointment she puts their ads online she tells them where to go and by the way on Friday the the victims of human trafficking and we've grayed them out three of them that are here ilegally from Venezuela three of them have to pay her $3,000 a piece on Friday or else they're threatened so so they're not free they're really indentured and they're quote unquote paying off their debt now here's what they told us all right I'm sure the federal government

will verify that this is not true but you decide who you want to believe whether you want to believe these victims are human trafficking or the whitewash the federal authorities give you they said that when they came into the the country illegally DHS gave them a form an ID paperwork that allows them to fly for free you know Southwest would let your bags fly free where the federal government will let your illegal immigrants fly free and they operate out of New York and they were working up ther

e and the New York auth authorities said hey if you don't have identification you can't work in our sex trade up here you know we don't allow sex trade here at all but New York will allow you to do some stuff if you've got the proper Authority so they say they make a lot of money they're addicted to it these ladies are going to give you more details they tell us that they fly to Major Metro centers for free on the federal government where they set up their appointments for sex all around the cou

ntry did you hear what I said listen folks if they don't pay 3,000 a piece on Friday they're in trouble the human trafficker sets up the deal hey this deal is just outside of Tampa they say they show this ID this card this paper they fly for free down here then they fly back but we heard a similar theme from all 21 of these folks we can't work legally we're addicted to this cash it's a lot of cash and it's quick so we have to give 3,000 a week we get to keep everything above that we have a crisi

s at the border and because of the crisis at the border we have people that are victimizing illegal folks forcing them into the sex tra because we allow these criminals in the country illegally we all rail about this and nobody pays any attention and then we want to politic everything oh we had a good piece of legislation that limited the average to only 5,000 illegals a day in the country and then we can shut it off well if you can shut it off at 5,000 people illegally coming in this country a

day you can shut it off at no people illegally coming in this country a day but the politicians are politian while the victims are being victimized I read an article this week that says well the illegals coming here aren't committing crime at any greater percentage than the people who are here legally what they didn't tell you is if they weren't here illegally at all the crime they would commit here would be zero so we're being victimized but that doesn't make any difference on the national leve

l you see because they set up there behind their gated communities and and in Congress and they play politics back and forth between the two parties while illegals are victimized citizens are victimized children are victimized and you got the goofy looking kid here who's making sure that they come up with $3,000 a week a piece and he's here illegally it's a mess and it doesn't have to be if we can deal with it and catch it on the local level they can stop it on the federal level shame on all of

them every one of them for not getting together and saying you know they're all things bigger in this country than my individual politics so now we'll start with Sheriff Grady Jud speaking in P County on this major human trafficking bust