South Carolina State Official Caught Aiding Human Trafficking Avoids Jail Time!
Unreal! Apparently officials working for the Cosmetology licensing division were selling licenses to people they knew where human traffickers who use the documents in their slavery rackets. State and Federal authorities investigated and the official involved was able to escape jail time by doing something called a pre-trail intervention. By the way when people finish their interventions, which include taxpayer funded counseling and rehabs, their records are expunged.
The slaves are still being trafficked. Seems fair, right?
From WSPA:
COLUMBIA, SC –
The director of South Carolina’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation told a state Senate subcommittee Friday that an employee had been selling cosmetology licenses illegally out of the agency’s parking lot and that the agency had been under state and federal investigation.
“I was shocked,” says Sen. Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson, chairman of the subcommittee.
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Catherine Templeton says, “The allegation or the charge was the employee was selling licenses, and presumably to support the human trafficking that goes on through the nation. The licenses were provided to individuals who were not, who had not met the statutory requirements for the licenses and enabled people who were not otherwise qualified to work in South Carolina.”
She says the illegal licenses were for nail technicians and that human traffickers often get illegally obtained licenses so they’ll have a way to put their victims to work.
The LLR employee was fired and investigated and charged by the State Law Enforcement Division. Templeton says the employee was allowed to enter a pre-trial intervention program to avoid possible prison time.
Templeton says she also forced the retirement of another employee who was over the cosmetology section because the FBI was also investigating licensing at the agency.
Rough justice! The corruption also extended to the purchasing of equipment – the agency spent nearly $2,000,000 on a computer system that never got delivered. That’s not chump change but it’s small potatoes compared to officials helping slavers run their business. Here’s video:
Heroic Tow Truck Driver Catches Tiny Pervert in Spartanburg
Good news in that case of the 13-year-old girl who ran off with the 5’2″ Facebook predator from West Virginia. A tow truck driver spotted the man driving around Spartanburg and followed him until the cops could stop him. Would it surprise you to know aside from this incident he also has several other outstanding warrants? You mean he’s a career criminal? Who’d a thunk?
Good work buddy!
Pricella Ristick – Endangered Missing from Norcross, Georgia
Authorities have no idea where this little girl is so I’m posting the photo in case her abductor ends up in the Carolinas.
On February 20th Pricella was selling flowers by the side of the road with her uncle. The uncle went into a business for a short time and when he came out the girl was gone. Witnesses say they saw her getting into a white which may have been driven by a woman named “Nancy” that Pricella met the week before. This was on the 800 block of Indian Trail Road.
Here’s her description:
AGE: 12
SEX: Female
RACE: White
HAIR: Dark brown (last seen dyed red)
EYES: Brown
HEIGHT: 5’0”
WEIGHT: 95 lbs
WEARING: Gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, black shoes
Please be on the look out for this child. If you have any information contact the Gwinnett County Police Department, Special Victims Unit 770-513-5300.
h/t the Please Help Missing Children webring
Mother, Grandmother Charged in False Amber Alert Case
As we all predicted the mother and grandmother who were in possession of the child Lisa Jordan claimed had been kidnapped are being charged with conspiracy to file a false police report. Good. Have fun in jail, ladies:
PICKENS COUNTY — The mother and maternal grandmother of two babies reported kidnapped last month have been charged in connection with the case.
The children’s mother, Keyly Martay Wade, 20, of 2225 Cannon Bottom Road, Belton, is charged with four counts of conspiring to file a false police report and two counts of unlawful neglect of a child in reference to the false reports of kidnapping and burglary.
Keyly Wade was arrested on December 29, 2010.
She has been released on a $20,000 surety bond, police said.
The grandmother, Belinda Wade, 47, also of 2225 Cannon Bottom Road, Belton, is charged with four counts of conspiracy to file a false police report, warrants state.
Belinda Wade was arrested on December 29, 2010. She has been released on a $16,000 surety bond.
Read more: The Easley Progress – Mother grandmother arrested in false Amber Alert case
The child was found safe in Ohio. The Easley Progress has mugshots of all three and I’m going to assume drugs were involved on this one. They have that too many oxys look to them. Thank the gods the cops found the kid before they sold her.
Arizona’s Child Sex Slave Nightmare
Via MyFox Phoenix:
Arizona’s Child Sex Trade Nightmare: MyFoxPHOENIX.com
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