prostitution

The incident occurred in April of 2021 when the woman brought a 16-year-old girl from Nevada to a Billings motel, for the express purpose of prostitution.

In human trafficking, there is no prostitution without customers. Q2 reports that’s one of the messages from a man who has worked on helping women overcome the pain associated with sexual exploitation. Peter Qualliotine spoke on Thursday at the Billings Public Library about ending commercial sexual exploitation, at the Royal C...

Both law enforcement professionals and the general public benefited from a special conference on human trafficking that took place on Wednesday in the University of Montana Center.

The Sex Trafficking Community Awareness Conference specifically geared for the public was held in the University Center Theater all day Thursday.

35-year-old Terrance Edwards, on trial Monday for allegedly promoting several young girls and women for prostitution in Montana, denied being a pimp and claimed he operated a legal escort service and website for a handbag company he founded, while serving prison time for an earlier prostitution conviction...

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Police Detective Guy Baker said sex trafficking occurs everywhere, even in Missoula.

The Gazette reports that a federal judge in Billings on Thursday sentenced a Washington state man to five years in prison for bringing women to Montana to work as his prostitutes. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters called the operation run by defendant, 24-year-old Andrew Rivera of Tacoma, sophisticated...

23-year-old Andrew Anthony Rivera of Tacoma Washington has admitted to federal charges accusing him of bringing a woman to Billings, specifically to work as a prostitute.  During a Monday hearing in U.S. District Court, Rivera pleaded guilty to transportation of a person with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity...

Appearing in a federal court in Billings on Thursday, a Minnesota woman denied any involvement in the sex trafficking case of a Missoula man accused of forcing women and minor girls into unwanted sexual activity.  31-year-old Francine Granados of Moorhead, Minn...

34-year-old Marlon Daunte Thomas appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court this week on charges of aggravated promotion of prostitution and promoting prostitution.   In Billings, a 17-year-old girl was reportedly being prostituted, and Thomas, who is believed by prosecutors to be the girl’s pimp, was arrested on Friday, November 4th...