The Cook County Sheriff's Police told them they were coming. The agency took an ad out on Backpage. Ferid Mahalbasic, 18, of Waterloo, Iowa, is charged with involuntary servitude of a minor and involuntary servitude, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office. Jim Sacluti, 38, was arrested Friday at O'Hare after authorities were notified by Homeland Security that he was at the airport waiting for a flight to Tokyo, according to a statement from the Cook County sheriff's office.
Alleged serial killer Darren Vann used an online classified advertising service to lure at least one of his victims to her death, according to police. Two felons have joined five other defendants in a major racketeering case targeting an Outfit-connected crew accused of home invasions, armed robberies, burglaries, insurance fraud, prostitution, arson and a plot to murder a witness.
Senator Mark Kirk said Monday he and Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein have introduced legislation to further crackdown on people involved in human trafficking. A community activist says teenage girls -- runaways -- were held captive and forced by pimps to have sex. Chang-Li Wang was arrested for allegedly offering to perform a sexual act for money on an undercover official who went to the business on behalf of police. An ordinance sponsored by Ald. Scott Waguespack 32nd would have outlawed unauthorized strip clubs in residential neighborhoods, but allowed some nudity in clubs that serve booze.
Police are teaming up with business leaders in a high-crime neighborhood on the South Side, to try to make the area safer and more attractive for doing business. Nabil Anas provided the Palos Park woman with cocaine, and prostituted her several times over the last few weeks, and then used the money to buy drugs and pay for motel rooms. A pimp who was nabbed at a Skokie hotel was sentenced to 15 years behind bars Wednesday after a year-old girl he sexually exploited tearfully testified, "It's disgusting to do that to a kid.
The owner of a martial arts studio has been charged with promoting prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act in north suburban Highland Park. Three women and two men were arrested in a prostitution sting at an Aurora hotel Thursday afternoon. A Chicago man already charged in northwest Indiana with murdering a woman is now facing federal charges of taking that woman and others across state lines for prostitution, the Post-Tribune is reporting.
