Full Notification

DATE:  Wednesday, January 18, 2017
 
TIME:  11:00 AM
 
 
SUSPECT:  Pedro Ivan Reyes Peralta, Male Hispanic, 21 Years of Age
 
 
UNIT:  Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Force
 
NARRATIVE:  Sheriff’s Human Trafficking – SAFE Team Detectives arrested a suspect on Wednesday, who had arranged online to meet a 15 year-old girl for sex.  Pedro Ivan Reyes Peralta Male Hispanic, 21, began communicating with an undercover detective on Tuesday, after he posted a Craigslist ad, seeking sex.  The detective was posing as a 15 year-old girl and it was made clear that she was under age.  Reyes-Peralta continued to communicate with her to arrange a sexual encounter and was arrested after he arrived at location in unincorporated Whittier, expecting to meet her.  The suspect implicated himself during subsequent questioning.
 
Reyes-Peralta was booked at Pico Rivera Sheriff Station and was held on a bail of $75,000.  He is expected to be arraigned on Friday, January 20, 2017.
 
“Social media sites can be very hazardous places for minors” commented Sergeant Peter Hahn of the Sheriff’s Human Trafficking Bureau. “Predators are actively seeing juveniles to exploit and victimize, since they believe they are hidden by the anonymous nature of the internet. Parents are reminded to actively monitor the internet activity of their children, to prevent anyone from taking advantage of them.”
 
 
For additional information contact:
After Hours: SIB: 213-229-1700
Sergeant Peter Hahn: 323-526-5154
Lieutenant Kent Wegener: 323-526-5159
 
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s Human Trafficking Bureau houses the LA Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, the nation’s largest co-located human trafficking task force.  The Task Force is a collaboration of federal, state, county and local law enforcement, social service agency and non-government and community-based organizations investigating and serving the needs of commercially exploited adults and minors victimized for the purpose of sex and labor.   
 
 
The LA Regional Human Trafficking Task Force brings together systems and disciplines to address the victim’s needs through a victim centered, trauma informed approach.  The task force employs a regionalized strategy that crosses jurisdictional boundaries to identify and rescue victims while aggressively pursuing traffickers and buyers.
 
LA Regional Human Trafficking Task Force Partners: 
Federal
United States Attorney’s Office
Homeland Security Investigations (ICE)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Marshals Service
United States Department of Labor 
State
California Attorney General
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (State Parole)
California Employment Development Department
California Highway Patrol
County
LA County Sheriff’s Department
LA County District Attorney’s Office (DA & DA Investigator)
Department of Children and Family Services
LA County Probation Department
LA County Department of Public Health 
City
Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Unified School District Police Department
Pomona Police Department 
Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office
 
Non-Government/Community Based Organizations
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
Saving Innocence
The Guardian Group (Hotel/Motel Outreach, Education and Signage)
Sheriff Clergy Council
Pet Prescriptions Therapy Dog Program
Demand Abolition Cease Network
Restoration Diversion Services
Virtuous Women Inc.
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
International Institute of Los Angeles
 
 
 
Written by:
Kent Wegener, Lieutenant
Human Trafficking Bureau
4700 Ramona Boulevard, Monterey Park, Ca 91754
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