An Anchorage man was sentenced on Thursday to a decade and a half in prison after a conviction of “enticing and attempting to entice minors to engage in sex acts, the Justice Department announced. Steven Michael Maddox, age 56, according to court records, “provided drugs and alcohol to three different teenage girls, using the drugs and alcohol […]
It was announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Monday that former Anchorage Hostel owner, 45-year-old Jason Jayavarman, was found “Guilty” of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of Children and Attempted Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct in a Foreign Place. Jayavarman was tried before U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason and found […]
BOGOTA, Colombia — An international undercover law enforcement operation culminated Saturday with the arrests of 12 individuals involved in sex trafficking and the rescue of 55 sex trafficking victims, all minors. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Attaché Office in Colombia and the Colombian Attorney General’s Technical Investigative Corps Transnational Criminal […]