A group of federal law enforcement officials met earlier this month to discuss the formation of a human trafficking task force in Virginia, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The group, which included U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride, and officials from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Congressman Frank Wolf’s office, and the Polaris Project met on June 7 and began developing the plan for a human trafficking task force in Virginia, The Examiner confirmed.
The task force would help draw attention to human trafficking cases, and would coordinate investigations and prosecutions.
Wolf told The Examiner, that he believes Virginia has become more vulnerable to human trafficking since the District and Maryland created their own task forces in recent years.
