Fernando Roland was sentenced in Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River for trafficking two immigrant women. A second trial against Rhode Island-based company Martins Maintenance is expected in 2024.
Where a defendant corporation that provides commercial janitorial services was indicted for labor trafficking, a judge’s decision to dismiss the indictments must be reversed because there was sufficient evidence to establish probable cause that the defendant was profiting from labor trafficking under a theory of collective knowledge. “The defendant, Martins Maintenance, Inc., a corporation that
A Bristol County case against a janitorial firm charged with labor trafficking a New Bedford woman has gotten the go-ahead from the state supreme court.