{"id":382150,"date":"2026-08-27T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382150\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:32:09","slug":"dozens-arrested-in-altamonte-springs-prostitution-bust-operation-midnight-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382150\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens arrested in Altamonte Springs prostitution bust: &#8216;Operation Midnight Heat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl-altamonte-springs-police-badge-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. &#8211; Thirty-seven people were arrested during a two-day prostitution enforcement operation in Altamonte Springs, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Operation Midnight Heat&#8221; also targeted wanted individuals and sought to identify potential human trafficking victims, police said.<\/p>\n<p> Multiple agencies involved  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Altamonte Springs Police Department conducted the operation with the Seminole County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said the arrests involved charges including prostitution-related offenses, traveling to meet after using a computer to lure a child, possession of cocaine, possession of fentanyl, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities did not immediately provide additional information about those arrested or say whether any potential human trafficking victims were identified.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information related to the operation can contact Altamonte Springs police at 407-339-2441. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Altamonte Springs Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/seminole-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole County News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/seminole-county\/altamonte-springs\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Altamonte Springs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. &#8211; Thirty-seven people were arrested during a two-day prostitution enforcement operation in Altamonte Springs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4131,630,47,115,139,141,140,1014,628],"class_list":["post-382150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-altamonte-springs","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-seminole-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}