{"id":814853,"date":"2026-07-20T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814853\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:22:11","slug":"toronto-man-ajax-woman-charged-in-human-trafficking-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814853\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man, Ajax woman charged in human trafficking investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have charged a Toronto man and an Ajax woman after a 27-year-old victim was allegedly trafficked into the sex trade, and investigators believe there may be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66475\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66475\/\">news release<\/a>, Toronto police said its Human Trafficking Unit began an investigation into the alleged offence in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the victim was transported to different locations to meet clients to perform sexual services through a combination of \u201cdeception, coercion and control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Any money the victim made was allegedly surrendered to the accused and kept by them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police arrested 30-year-old Toronto resident Nygel Wright in connection with the investigation. He\u2019s facing 12 charges, including material benefit from sexual services, forcible confinement, and assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kristin Hendren, 34, of Ajax, was arrested and charged trafficking in persons, procuring\/exercising control, and material benefit from sexual services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information about the investigation to contact them at 416-808-4838 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/07\/20\/toronto-man-ajax-woman-charged-in-human-trafficking-investigation\/mailto:humantrafficking@torontopolice.on.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">humantrafficking@torontopolice.on.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a Toronto man and an Ajax woman after a 27-year-old victim was allegedly trafficked into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-814853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814853","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=814853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}