Private school founder gets federal prison term for role in human trafficking

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The founder of a now-defunct private school in Charlotte was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday morning in a case that investigators said essentially boiled down to human trafficking. Evelyn Mack will spend the next 18 months behind bars. The government said Mack set up a private school in Charlotte -- the Evelyn Mack Academy -- and used it to promise foreign teens they would play at a prominent school with scholarship offers. Instead, prosecutors said thos

Former police officer pleads guilty to sex trafficking minors in Annapolis, Glen Burnie

A former Washington D.C. police officer pleaded guilty to two counts of sex trafficking of a minor as he admitted to paying two teenagers for sex in the Annapolis area for several months.Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, 29, of Glenn Dale, faces up to 20 years in prison on the two charges and will be required to register as a sex offender, the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in a release. Ekwonna was charged in April 2017 with soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl in Glen Burnie and then ro

FBI: 30-40 children sex trafficked within metro Detroit during Detroit Auto Show

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The FBI says 30-40 children are trafficking within the greater Detroit area during the North American International Auto Show. The bureau joined Detroit Police Chief James Craig to talk about human trafficking ahead of the auto show opening to the public on Saturday. According to Michael Glennon with the FBI, there is a 280-300 percent increase in sex trafficking workers in the area. Ten percent of them are under the age of 18. Chief Craig said that on Wednes