Tip Leads TBI To Suspected Human Trafficking In Springfield
SPRINGFIELD TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn Information – An investigation by Particular Brokers with the Human Trafficking Unit of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Overton County Sheriff’s Workplace, the Division of Youngsters’s Companies, and the nineteenth District Lawyer Basic’s Workplace has resulted within the arrest of a Livingston man.
In Might, Brokers started investigating a tip to the Tennessee Human Trafficking Hotline from administration at a resort in Springfield. The resort reported suspicious exercise that appeared in step with obligatory human trafficking coaching workers had obtained. Through the course of the investigation, 45-year-old Timothy C. Duke was recognized because the alleged particular person on the resort with a juvenile.
On September twenty fourth, the Robertson County Grand Jury returned indictments charging Duke with two counts of Aggravated Statutory Rape. Friday, Duke was taken into custody by the Overton County Sheriff’s Workplace and booked into the Robertson County Jail on $25,000 bond.
To report suspected human trafficking name the Tennessee Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-855-55-TNHTH. Details about human trafficking and TBI’s efforts to handle one of these crime might be discovered on-line at www.ItHasToStop.com.
