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More than 50 women were forced into prostitution in North Jersey, Rockland County and New York City by male members of a large-scale international human trafficking ring run by three women from Teaneck and two men from Lodi, authorities said .
A massive investigation into sex trafficking in both states culminated in a series of early-morning raids Wednesday at 19 homes and other locations in Bergen and Hudson counties – including Lodi, Teaneck, Englewood, Elmwood Park and Bergenfield.
Detectives and uniformed police and sheriff s officers arrested 21 ring members.
They also obtained a fugitive warrant for one of the accused ringleaders, 61-year-old Birmania “Nancy” Rincon of Teaneck, who Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said was believed to be in Colombia.
22 accused of running human trafficking ring in N.J. for past six years
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
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The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday announced the arrest and charges for 22 alleged members of an international human trafficking ring based in Bergen County that would force women into sexual slavery, and had operated in the county for as many as six years, authorities said.
In a virtual press conference Thursday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced that 22 people were arrested and charged for their alleged involvement in the human trafficking ring that victimized more than 50 people, many of them Mexican immigrants, by forcing them into prostitution. More than 1,500 clients of the forced prostitution were identified, said Robert Anzilotti, the office’s Chief of Detectives.
A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged in connection with the repeated sexual assault of a child under the age of 13, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Tuesday.
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ICE has placed a detainer on a Guatemalan national living in North Arlington who was jailed on charges of sexually assaulting a pre-teen several times over a period of six months.
Jose Estrada-Coj, a 47-year-old day laborer, was arrested by borough police on Sunday after they received information about the alleged assaults, all of which took place in North Arlington, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Tuesday.
An investigation by detectives from Musella’s Special Victims Unit and their borough colleagues led to charges of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, as well as sexual assault by contact and child endangerment against him, the prosecutor said.
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What began with a domestic dispute call in South Plainfield ended in charges against a 45-year-old engineer of sexually assaulting a pre-teen in Lodi nearly a decade ago, authorities said.
Joseph Eustace Maina remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing this coming Monday in Hackensack, records show.
South Plainfield police went to Maina’s Christopher Avenue home on Sunday in response to a report of a domestic dispute, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
They contacted Lodi police and members of Musella’s Special Victims Unit after “it was alleged that [he] engaged in sexual relations with a child who was under the age of 13 while in Lodi,” the prosecutor said.