MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas – A Houston woman is in Montgomery County custody for allegedly leading a human trafficking operation that involved two missing girls.<\/p>\n
Montgomery County: Human trafficking arrest <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says<\/a> 28-year-old Shiann Hutchins is charged with Trafficking of a Child.\u00a0<\/p>\n Authorities say Hutchins’ arrest comes from an investigation that started in July 2024. The sheriff’s office received a report of a missing 16-year-old and a missing 18-year-old who were believed to be victims of sex trafficking.<\/p>\n The sheriff’s office worked with Homeland Security to get a phone number associated with one of the missing girls. Officers went undercover, arranged a “sex-for-money transaction,” and met the individuals with the two teens at a local hotel.<\/p>\n Officials say both teens were provided support and resources.<\/p>\n After the teens were rescued, a follow-up investigation reportedly determined that Shiann Hutchins was “the primary suspect and a leader of the human trafficking operation involving the two missing girls.”<\/p>\n An arrest warrant was issued for Hutchins, and authorities say she was arrested on Wednesday.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n No other information is available at this time as the investigation continues, according to authorities.<\/p>\n Share what you know <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Anyone with any information regarding human trafficking is encouraged to call Multi-County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-392-7867.<\/p>\n The Source: Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Montgomery County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas – A Houston woman is in Montgomery County custody for allegedly leading a human trafficking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,7054,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-76341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-montgomery-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}