Inside America s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking | The Free Press

DALLAS, TEXAS Lisa slides a Hellcat pistol into her backpack, slinging it over her shoulder. She jumps out of the driver s seat of her massive Ford F-250 as we head into a barbecue joint for lunch. Steel brass knuckles glint in the console beside a pencil-shaped, pronged object. She sees me looking at it. 

That s my stabby-stick, Lisa says before I even ask. In case I can t bring my gun somewhere. These guys are dangerous.

These guys are sex traffickers, and dangerous doesn t begin to describe them. 

Many traffickers are members of Mexican or Salvadorian gangs, part of Cuban rings or the vicious Venezuelan group Tren de Aragua. Their modus operandi is luring migrant women and girls across the southern border, promising them good jobs once they get to America, and then forcing them into prostitution once they re here, ostensibly to pay off the debt they incurred to get into the U.S. Hunting down sex traffickers is not for the faint of heart, and Lisa is not about to take any chances. 

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Yesterday LWJ took some ladies on an expedition to a petting zoo in Valley Center, the object of which was to try to cheer up a sex trafficking victim who has stopped speaking, she is so traumatized. In the event, she was too anxious to leave her room in the safe house where she now lives, so the ladies went on the trip without her. Jeanne said the trip was fun but she was exhausted when she got home. It did not sound fun to me, but then I’m the original stick-in-the-mud. There is a lot of work to be done here in San Diego to try to help the victims of this horrible crime.