Federal crime task force sent to Memphis tops 10,000 arrests
A missing 14-year-old girl was rescued from a drug-filled motel room in Memphis on Monday night in what police are investigating as a child trafficking incident. Marshals Service and head of the task force, in an interview with the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.Advertisement The Memphis Safe Task Force. (U.S. Marshals Service) Officials from the city, state, and federal government entered into a partnership last fall to take on crime in the western Tennessee city, where the per capita crime rate surpassed all other U.S. cities prior to the task force’s work.
- ▪A missing 14-year-old girl was rescued from a drug-filled motel room in Memphis on Monday night in what police are investigating as a child trafficking incident.
- ▪Marshals Service and head of the task force, in an interview with the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.Advertisement The Memphis Safe Task Force. (U.S.
- ▪Marshals Service) Officials from the city, state, and federal government entered into a partnership last fall to take on crime in the western Tennessee city, where the per capita crime rate surpassed all other U.S. cities prior to the task
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A missing 14-year-old girl was rescued from a drug-filled motel room in Memphis on Monday night in what police are investigating as a child trafficking incident. The man found with the child was arrested and taken away by a swath of federal, state, and local police on site.That man is among roughly 10,600 people who have been arrested in Memphis by the Memphis Safe Task Force in its nine months of operation in America’s most crime-ridden city, according to Gadyaces Serralta, the government official overseeing the operation.
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