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Undercover sex sting in Lancaster nets 9 arrests

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LANCASTER – Nine people were arrested during a human trafficking operation in Lancaster on Tuesday, Dec. 18, authorities announced.

“Seven of those arrested were male adults who solicited undercover sheriff’s deputies for various sex acts,” according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. The men, whose identities were not immediately released, were transported and booked at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.

During the operation, detectives also arrested a 22-year-old Lancaster woman — Keeyale Jackson — for an outstanding no-bail felony warrant for pimping, officials said. Another woman was detained for prostitution, and she was offered victim-centered services from the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, according to the news release. Both females were booked at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.

The operation was conducted by deputies from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station and the LA Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, a collaboration of federal, state, county and local law enforcement aimed at serving the needs of commercially exploited adults and minors victimized for the purposes of sex and labor.

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53 comments for "Undercover sex sting in Lancaster nets 9 arrests"

  1. THE MAJORITY OF OLD DUDES BUSTED IN THE STI G ARE REGISTRED REPUBLICANS THAT VOTED FOR TRUMP IN 2016 ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES.

  3. Bay area scandal: Police officers, including a sergeant, involving seven police agencies, involved in sex with minors, that were prostitutes. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, commenters. How about cleaning up the rottenness within law enforcement. Breaking the law with impunity.

      • Sorry for your luck it must be difficult to go public with your rape by corrections officers good luck with that chronic pain in your rear …

        • Yes lots of women correctional officers that I’ve known through the years say that other officers especially the sergeants and lieutenants will tell them that they are needed over here and they take them in a closet and raped them no joke…….Just ask any correctional officer you know

  4. All the need to do is cruise Sierra Highway in Lancaster and their nail tons of prostitutes. Mahli’s Inn used to be a hot spot til they sold.

    • Me: Ho Ho Ho
      CoWorker: Merry Christmas
      Me: Oh nah, I was just driving down Sierra Highway and saw three hos

      • I read in the paper where Sierra Highway and all those drug and prostitute hotels would be taken out by the high speed rail, but Marv’s against it. Makes you wonder if he and the boys own those crime infested places.

        • Frankie…The motels along Sierra Highway are under contract to house sex offender parolees. No, Marv and the boys don’t own those motels, so you don’t have to wonder.

          • Are those hotels under contract to house prostitutes and drug dealers too? There are plenty of both at those slums.

          • Why would Marv defend them? The best thing that could happen to Lancaster would be the removal of these drug and prostitute filled roach infested slums. That and the removal of Paris.

          • Let us also remove the drug infested homes in nice areas, where plenty of prostitution and dirty deeds are going on in Palmdale, Lancaster, and surrounding areas. There are plenty of kickbacks going on everywhere. Those motels along Sierra Highway in Lancaster are more “in your face,” but what goes on that you can’t easily see, is the bigger problem. Palmdale Blvd. is a mess, also.

          • There are a lot of motels that are drug infested with prostitutes, in Lancaster and Palmdale. Meanwhile, another homeless camp in the middle of nowhere is red tagged. Marv Crist doesn’t have a clue, and doesn’t want to have a clue. He has his, and that’s all that counts in his self-centered world. Most people are like him.

          • The drug and prostitute infested hotel in Palmdale was Mahli’s Inn. It was sold and finally shut down.
            Parris. Crist. Mahli. What a combination of incompetence, harm to the homeless, but always having arm open to prostitutes and drug dealers.

          • Well, Mr. Pimp, I’m sure you are well aware of all the other establishments that haven’t closed down in Palmdale. It really doesn’t make any difference does it, Mr. Pimp? Where one city ends, another begins, so you don’t have to travel far.

  5. Seven men arrested in a sting operation for solicitation is not human trafficking. It’s entrapment.

    There. fixed it.

    • You obviously have no idea that men and women being victims of trafficking are used as prostitutes to make their captors money. Open your eyes !

      • Well Keeyale Jackson is definitely no victim. the seven men aren’t victims, and the undercover deputies aren’t victims.

        • Alexis… You are so ridiculous! How do you know what other information they collected from the pimp, or other people during this operation? And yes, all the arrests are good. It doesn’t matter that prostitution is common, it’s still illegal. Most smart people are glad they all got popped!

          • I looked up Kaylee Jackson’s very long arrest history, all over California. Yes, prostitution is illegal, but this article is NOT about human trafficking. I think you are ridiculous.

    • Many of the prostitutes are brought over from the border by cartels and gangs while in their early teens after having been essentially kidnapped from their families. They are sold into prostitution and promised that money will be send home to their families.
      Others are often homeless teens in the same predicament. Many are still teens being “trafficked” by pimps. They are bought and sold from pimp to pimp, cartel to cartel or drug dealer to drug dealer.

      It’s far from a victimless crime…

        • Well, The prostitutes that have clientele that include politicians, judges, police officers, firemen, etc. should be included. That only happens on rare occasions, so stop with the hypocrisy.

      • Yes Mexico is a Third World Country and all Third World Counties have ramped prostitution, and the legal age of consent is often 12 years old in these countries. The problem is USA is bordering that country and we have no wall and little control over the border, because leftists politicians want the voters, since most coming here are economic immigrants and come here for money, often tax payer paid social services. That is the real and only problem. This story explains a sting op that was clearly entrapment, if you can read. Maybe you need to read it again.

      • Noticed this from your helicopter Shane?

        How about taking your clueless butt back out by the pool and shutting up?

  6. There were no minors. Anyway, are legal brothels in Nevada guilty of human trafficking? I see this as nothing more than overtime for the female officers (adults), being solicited by male adults for sex. Since when did this turn into human trafficking? Prostitution has been around since ancient times, and all these so called stings are a waste of time and resources.

    • There were no minors arrested. Alexis, you don’t know the full scope of this operation. Minors and those forced into sexual trafficking have been offered help and resources to get out, but they aren’t arrested.

      Obviously everybody is entitled to an opinion but the goal of many of these sting operations is to get inside the operation and get the pimps and johns that are facilitating the human trafficking as well as to get victims out.

      • Shane Falco…I didn’t say there were minors arrested. Please read my comment this morning about minors being solicited by law enforcement. I was once a victim as a minor, but I am now a survivor, thriving with much help through the years. By the way, I know what really goes on when it comes to what happens on the streets. I thank God for where I am today.

      • I would like you to know that I am well aware that without law enforcement, there would be anarchy. I have encountered many wonderful, caring, officers that give everything they have to their community in service, with integrity. I have also encountered the most corrupt within law enforcement, and it sickens me. Those are the ones that break down the trust between citizen and officer.

  7. “Seven of those arrested were male adults who solicited undercover sheriff’s deputies…”

    This doesn’t sound like an operation to counter human trafficking.

    • You obviously have no idea that men and women being victims of trafficking are used as prostitutes to make their captors money. Open your eyes !

      • Read the story again. You are talking up a tree. What you’re saying is not relating to what happened here in this operation by the cops.

      • The women were undercover cops. How does that make them “part of a sex trafficking ring”?

        This is just the LASD grabbing some headlines by blowing up a standard vice squad “bust some johns” into an -ooooooooo- HUMAN TRAFFICKING!!!! case. Everybody arrested will plead guilty to a petty misdemeanor, pay a fine, and be on their way…but of course that will never make a press release.