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Anti-trafficking and solicitation enforcement

The use of online decoys and surveillance techniques to combat solicitation and trafficking.

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Jan 14, 2026
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Operation Creep in Minnesota was a sting operation like led to over a dozen arrests in an underage sex sting, including one federal ice agent (auditor) and a state agency staffer

Operation Creep was a multi‑agency undercover sting in Bloomington, Minnesota, that resulted in 16 arrests of men alleged to have sought sex from a decoy they believed to be a 17‑year‑old; local polic...

Jan 28, 2026

How do viral misattributed arrest records spread online and what tools can verify a person’s criminal history?

proliferate through a mix of automated scraping by data brokers, social-media amplification and occasional deliberate manipulation such as doctored mugshots or “digital arrest” frauds; these records c...