{"id":697950,"date":"2026-05-27T21:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697950\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:38:17","slug":"calgary-man-charged-with-human-trafficking-throughout-western-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697950\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary man charged with human trafficking \u2018throughout western Canada\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Calgary man has been arrested and will face several charges including <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/human-trafficking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">human trafficking<\/a>, following an investigation spanning multiple provinces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Regina police received a tip about a woman \u201cbeing trafficked in the sex trade\u201d late last year and began investigating, the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/regina-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regina Police<\/a> Service (RPS) said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investigation showed the victim had been trafficked throughout western Canada, including in Regina\u201d from December of 2023 to November of 2025, RPS said.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the RPS said its VICE unit worked alongside the Calgary Police Service, Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT), and Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) for a six-month investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman trafficking investigations are extremely complex, most often cross borders and require extensive collaboration between agencies,\u201d Regina Police Chief Laurel Marshall said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForemost,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0about ensuring victims are safe and helping them break free from their traffickers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abdoulaye Gadjiko, the 28-year-old accused man from Calgary, was arrested on May 20. This investigation, dubbed Project Anchor, included the search of four homes, one business, and a vehicle after his arrest, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Eight charges are being laid against Gadjiko.<\/p>\n<p>Charges, including human trafficking, advertising sexual services, and benefitting from trafficking, as well as living off the profits of the services sold, were laid.<\/p>\n<p>Gadjiko is also being charged with procuring, possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000, money laundering, and failure to comply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with information that may be related to this investigation is encouraged to contact their local police service,\u201d the release added.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old\u2019s first court appearance in Regina Provincial Court was scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Calgary man has been arrested and will face several charges including human trafficking, following an investigation spanning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,12459,48,2169,107568,254430],"class_list":["post-697950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-police-service","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-human-trafficking","tag-regina-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697950","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=697950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}