Riverside County authorities identified more than 50 missing children and rescued 37 of them through a week-long anti-human trafficking operation, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told NBC Los Angeles Friday.
Operation Safe Return located teens between the ages of 14 and 17 in Riverside County as well as Northern California, Nevada and Arizona. Among them, 37 children were safely rescued, Bianco said.
“Our sex trafficking is through hotels events and apps online,” Bianco said, explaining human trafficking works differently in Riverside County…