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It's the first-of-its-kind in Louisville.
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Louisville Metro Police officers arrested Booker on the human trafficking charges during a robbery investigation on Saturday.Â
At a hearing in Frankfort on Wednesday, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron told legislators Kentucky ranks 9th in the country for federal human trafficking cases.
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Kentucky State Police along with nearly 50 other agencies across the state helped in the sting.
According to national statistics, Kentucky ranked ninth in the country for cases in 2019.
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Federal prosecutors announced Friday that one Honduran national illegally in this country has been charged with harboring 29 people.
Rep. Suzanne Miles, R-Owensboro, last week filed House Bill 2, which, she said, would close a loophole in how human trafficking offenders are treated in relation to the sex offender registry.
Data show about 950 people have been victims of human trafficking in Kentucky since 2013; more than 150 of those cases occurred in Jefferson County.