Respondents brought a Fourth Amendment challenge toa provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code that compels “[e]very operator of a hotel to keep a record” containing specified information concerning guests and to makethis record “available to any officer of the Los Angeles Police Department for inspection” on demand. Los Angeles Municipal Code §§41.49(2), (3)(a), (4) (2015). The questi

HOUSTON, TX – Luisa Vargas, 53, a legal permanent resident residing in Houston was convicted at the conclusion of a bench trial of sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens. The evidence at trial proved that in or about February 2012 until approximately May 2013, Vargas employed women and a girl less than age 18 as prostitutes in the Westview apartments used as a brothel

Julian Castle Logan (formerly known as Joao
Pedro Barbosa Jr.) was convicted in 2007 in Massachusetts state
court of living off or sharing the earnings of a minor prostitute
in violation of Massachusetts law. After twice being rebuffed by
the Massachusetts Appeals Court, see Commonwealth v. Barbosa, No.
08-P-1620, 2010 WL 680349 (Mass. App. Ct. Mar. 1, 2010) (Barbosa
I); Co

This is an appeal from an order terminating the parent-child relationship between D.V. and his mother. The relationship between the little boy and his father was also terminated, but the father has not appealed. Because of recurrent family violence between the parents, we will refer to Father’s behavior where necessary to explain the factual circumstances.1
Mother brings seven issues for rev

Denver, CO - A Jefferson County jury found Daniel Byron Onodera, DOB: 12-10-71, guilty of eight felony counts including Pandering of a Child (F2); Pimping of a Child (F3); Keeping a Place of Child Prostitution (F3); and Soliciting for Child Prostitution (F3). Onodera was the ringleader of a group of seven men and women charged in the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

There were

MISSOULA, MT – Yusuf Reeves, 47, of Spokane Valley, Washington, pleaded guilty in Missoula federal court to drug and racketeering-related charges. He faces a mandatory prison sentence of five to forty years, up to five million dollars in fines, and at least four years supervised release for the drug crime. For the racketeering crime involving prostitution, he faces up to five years in prison,

Defendant Leelen D. Walker was charged with possession of marijuana for sale in
violation of Health and Safety Code section 11359, a felony, and convicted by a jury.
During the trial, the superior court declined to instruct the jury that it could instead
convict defendant of the lesser included offense of simple possession of less than 28.5
grams (1 ounce) of marijuana, an infracti

Miami, FL - The Department of Justice announced that United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez of the Southern District of Florida sentenced defendant Carmen Cadena, 48, a Mexican national, to serve five years in prison for her role in a brutal family-run sex trafficking organization. The defendant shall also be ordered to pay restitution and hearing is set on August 10, 2015 to determine the

SAN DIEGO – Two men pleaded guilty in federal court this week to trafficking children for commercial sex.

On Tuesday, Darius Chambers, 19, admitted before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen S. Crawford that he trafficked two girls – ages 16 and 17 – for commercial sex. Chambers admitted that, knowing the victims were underage and engaged in prostitution, he collected the proceeds of acts o

S.D.A. (the Mother) appeals from the decree terminating her parental rights
to her Children, T.L.R. and T.J.R. (the Children).1 The Mother raises three issues
challenging the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence supporting the two
predicate termination grounds recited in the judgment and the trial court’s finding
that termination of the Mother’s parental rights is in t

HOUSTON, TX – Bobby Barrett, aka “Black,” 31, has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of sex trafficking of a minor who was under 18 with force, fraud or coercion, and transporting her across state lines for the purpose of engaging in prostitution, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The federal jury convicted the Killeen man after a four-day trial and less than tw

A jury convicted defendant Christopher James Lloyd of assault with a deadly weapon (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1)), and found he inflicted great bodily injury (Pen. Code, § 12022.7, subd. (a)) during the assault. Trial on defendant’s five separate prior state prison commitments (Pen. Code, § 667.5, subd. (b)) was bifurcated from the trial on the assault. Defendant eventually admitted the fiv

DALLAS, TX — A former detective with the Dallas Police Department (DPD), who was convicted at trial in 2014 on three counts of an indictment charging obstruction of official proceedings and obstruction of the due administration of justice, was sentenced.

Jose Luis Bedoy, 41, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and fined $25,000 by U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn. He was

PORTLAND, OR – U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Isaiah Michael Simpson, 30, of Portland, Oregon, to 120 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor. Simpson will be required to serve five years on supervision following his release from prison, and will be required to register as a sex offender. Simpson will serve his sentence concurrently with a 5-15 year sentence imposed in

WASHINGTON – Today, Laquentin Brown, aka “Nino,” 32, originally of Memphis, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in sex trafficking of adult victims in New Orleans and elsewhere, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Br

SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Dallas man was sentenced Tuesday to 170 months in prison for transporting a minor to Bossier City, La., for prostitution.

Qualyn D. Mitchell, 31, of Dallas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote on one count of sex trafficking of a minor. He was also sentenced to five years of supervised rele

MEMPHIS, TENN. – Today, U.S. Senior District Judge Jon Phipps McCalla sentenced Laron Matlock, age 33, of Memphis, TN, to 15 years of imprisonment for sex trafficking of a minor, announced Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee; Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; and Todd McCall, Special Agent in Charg

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted six men – five residents of Chambersburg and one from Harrisburg – as part of an investigation of an alleged sex trafficking ring operating in six states and the District of Columbia.

The indictment, filed on March 11 and unsealed this week, charges

Miami, FL - The leader and three other members of Big Money Team (BMT), a violent street gang that operates in the Little Havana and Allapattah neighborhoods of Miami, Florida, have been convicted of drug conspiracy, firearm and violent crime charges following a one month long trial.

Defendants Maurin Chacon a/k/a “Tiny,” a/k/a “Peludo,” a/k/a “Yung Patron,” 27, Christopher Al

Edward Olszewski, 67, of Hobart, Indiana pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen to the felony offense of Transporting for the Purpose of Prostitution in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2421. This charge was filed as a result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations.

Mother appeals the trial court’s termination of her parental rights to her children, A.B. and D.Y. She argues that the trial court abused its discretion by basing the termination decree on a Rule 11 agreement that is void because of mutual mistake. She also argues that the decree contains errors and terms not contained in the Rule 11 agreement and should be reformed. For the reasons that follow,

This is an appeal out of Payette County from a judgment terminating the appellant’s parental rights in her child. We affirm the judgment of the magistrate court.
I.
Factual Background.
On August 15, 2012, Jane Doe’s three-year-old son was found wandering in a truck stop parking lot, where trucks were entering and leaving. He had walked from a recreational vehicle 1.9 miles away, wh

LOS ANGELES, CA – A Long Beach woman pleaded guilty to federal charges of working with her son to prostitute a local runaway beginning when the girl was 15 and another young woman beginning when she was 18.

Sharilyn Kae Anderson, 46, pleaded guilty to conspiring with her son to engage in sex trafficking, an offense that carries a potential penalty of life in federal prison.

In

LOS ANGELES, CA – A Long Beach man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for running a sex trafficking operation that victimized young women who he forced to work as prostitutes.

Roshaun Nakia Porter, 39, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton to a sentence of 240 months in prison, which will be followed by 10 years of supervised release.

In additi

MEMPHIS, TN - U.S. Senior District Judge Jon Phipps McCalla sentenced Laron Matlock, age 33, of Memphis, TN, to 15 years of imprisonment for sex trafficking of a minor.

Matlock, with the assistance of a co-defendant, facilitated the travel for a sixteen year old minor to travel from Chicago, Illinois to Memphis in July 2012 for the purpose of prostitution. Matlock then transported the min