A Montreal man accused of human trafficking has been arrested in Calgary, Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) announced Friday. <\/p>\n
The police agency says 33-year-old Neylson Benoit-Ancion was taken into custody in Calgary on March 12 with help from local police. <\/p>\n
The arrest came just a few weeks after an investigation was prompted by a tip made to CrimeStoppers. <\/p>\n
He has been charged with trafficking a person, obtaining material benefit from sexual services, procuring a person for sexual services, and advertising a person for sexual services. <\/p>\n
So far, police have identified two victims. ALERT says additional victims have been identified and are asking them to come forward to police. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs in the case with most of our investigations, our perpetrator appeared to have been traveling across Canada exploiting girls and woman for sex. For investigators, it becomes a challenge of reaching victims who may have left the area, but their information is valuable and we want to hear from them,\u201d said Staff Sgt. Matt Pumphrey with ALERT.<\/p>\n
Benoit-Ancion was released from custody. His next court appearance is scheduled for April 10. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact police or CrimeStoppers, which is anonymous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Montreal man accused of human trafficking has been arrested in Calgary, Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-564755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}