A man who pleaded guilty to running a high-priced prostitution ring has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in one of the first cases brought under New Jersey's new human trafficking law.
A telephone call from a hotel in Deptford Township led to the arrest of Voorhees resident Robert Murray, charged with human trafficking, promoting prostitution and assault.
In the buildup to the Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium earlier this month, Gov. Chris Christie and acting state Attorney General John Hoffman repeatedly told the public about the threat of human trafficking surrounding such a big event. Tragically, it turns out those warnings were prophetic.
Authorities say a law enforcement sting timed to coincide with the Super Bowl resulted in more than 350 arrests of men seeking to hire prostitutes and more than a dozen sex traffickers.
With three days to go until the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of out-of-towners in New Jersey for the big game, authorities are ramping up efforts to crack down on human traffickers.
The Super Bowl is bringing hundreds of thousands of people to the New York-New Jersey area, and law enforcement authorities want to make sure they don't worsen an already widespread human trafficking problem.
Dozens of hotel staff members were trained by the state this week on how to identify victims and indicators of human trafficking, a crime that's expected to go into overdrive when New Jersey hosts Super Bowl XLVIII.
Law enforcement agents in New Jersey have redoubled efforts to fight what they worry could be one of the biggest menaces to come with next month's Super Bowl: sex trafficking.