Wirt County Prosecuting Attorney says this is believed to be the biggest law enforcement operation targeting drug trafficking ...

On Friday, the MVHTTF, with assistance from the Salem Police Department, conducted an undercover sting operation targeting those attempting to buy sex online. An undercover agent posted an online ad, ...

An area coffee chain is doing its part to combat human trafficking and they've enlisted local law enforcement to do so.

In the most recent data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, West Virginia had 73 calls in 2023 and 29 identified cases. “That doesn’t include tips that we receive.

On Monday, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond Office alongside 41 state and territory attorneys general revealed they are asking U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Director … ...

And some of our survivors were 12 and 13,” Bynum said. In West Virginia, a couple was recently found guilty of forced labor and human trafficking of their adopted children.

A West Virginia couple found guilty of abusing their adopted children by locking them in a shed, forcing them to sleep on the floor and to use buckets as toilets, have been sentenced to decades in ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children was convicted by a jury on Wednesday after eight hours of deliberations.

In June 2024, Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers alleged that the couple violated their five adopted children’s human rights by forcing them to work, West Virginia Metro News reported.

The couple each faced over a dozen counts involving their adopted children, including child neglect, civil rights violations, human trafficking, and forced outdoor labor - which the eldest says ...

A West Virginia jury has convicted a couple who were accused of neglect and forced labour involving their adopted children, including locking some of them in a shed, and forcing them to sleep on ...