FRANKFORT, KY — Two men from Southeastern Indiana were among those arrested during a multi-state human trafficking sting.
Fifty-year-old Keith Clapp of Dearborn County and 35-year-old Zachary Brogan of Switzerland County were among 46 who were arrested in Kentucky as part of “Operation United Front.”
Twenty-one victims, including two minors, were rescued in the Commonwealth. About 40 of the victims required medical treatment.
“Labor and sex trafficking is (sic) one of the worst evils imaginable,” said Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. “It subjects victims to unspeakable harm. It violates them over and over. It takes their dignity and heaps a level of trauma on those individuals that most of us can’t even fathom.
“It happens in big cities and small towns,” Beshear continued. “It happens in large criminal enterprises and sadly, it even happens when family members will allow harm to their children or their relatives over and over.”
The sting operation was carried out by 29 agencies across Kentucky last Thursday, with four taking place simultaneously in Northern Kentucky, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, and McCracken County.
A total of 102 arrests were made in 12 states, with 59 victims rescued.
