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A person from the Niagara space with ties to Mississauga and Brampton faces quite a few human trafficking, gun and drug charges after a police investigation revealed “two females” had been compelled to have {sex} for cash throughout the Golden Horseshoe area of southern Ontario.
Peel Regional Police vice unit investigators spearheaded the multi-force police probe that started final month and led to the latest arrest of a 37-year-old Thorold man.
He’s going through greater than two dozen charges after police say “two females” who didn’t know each other “had been sexually trafficked throughout the Golden Horseshoe area.”
Police didn’t say how outdated the alleged victims are.
A person “exercised control over aspects of their lives while profiting financially from it,” Peel police stated in a information launch on Friday.
Investigators in Peel stated Halton and Niagara police helped within the investigation and arrest.
The probe started in October when officers in Peel and Halton recognized the 2 alleged victims, police stated.
Police executed two search warrants at houses in Thorold, which led to the arrest of a suspect and restoration of a loaded gun, a “large amount of ammunition,” a drum journal able to holding 50 rounds of ammunition and an quantity of medicine.
Handgun recovered by police throughout their investigation. (Photograph: Peel Regional Police)
Police additionally seized a automotive they consider was used within the fee of the human trafficking offences.
Marcus Moses, 37, of Thorold, who police say has group ties to Peel, is charged with quite a few offences that embody two counts every of trafficking in individuals, train management, course or affect, promote sexual providers, obtain materials profit ensuing from trafficking in individuals and possession of a prohibited machine.
He’s additionally charged with possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition, careless use of a firearm and possession for the aim of trafficking (two counts).
Moses was held for a bail listening to in Brampton court docket.
Investigators consider there might be further victims, notably within the Golden Horseshoe.
Anybody with data is urged to name police at 905-453-2121, ext. 3555, or Peel Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.
(Cowl photograph: Peel Regional Police)
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