Human Trafficking

Human traffickers are motivated by greed, exploiting the most vulnerable among us for $150 billion annually.

Human trafficking can happen anywhere, including Missouri highways, so the highway patrol is participating in an awareness initiative targeted at truckers.

Law enforcement agencies say they rescued nine human trafficking victims and two children during an operation at a Missouri hotel.

Johnson County Sheriff's Deputies were part of a multi agency operation to combat human trafficking in Oak Grove.

Warrensburg Police address an urban legend going around Facebook regarding human trafficking.

The Missouri House has passed legislation to require some business to hang posters advertising the national human trafficking hotline.

Law enforcement officials are suing more than a dozen businesses in southwest Missouri suspected of being involved in human trafficking and prostitution under the guise of offering massages.

A Missouri task force that aims to find ways to strengthen the state's laws against human trafficking begins meeting this week.