BELLEVUE, Neb. (KMTV) – The Bellevue motel at the center of a sex and labor trafficking investigation is being demolished. The city told KMTV in a statement “it’s an emergency tear down based on the determination it’s a life safety issue.”
- A Bellevue motel central to federal sex and labor trafficking charges is being torn down even though the court proceedings against owner Ken Chaudari and four others have barely begun.
- The City of Bellevue ordered the emergency demolition after deeming the Fort Crook Road property unsafe in mid-August, forcing out residents who had been living there.
- While the Bellevue motel is being demolished, three other motels involved in the same trafficking investigation in Omaha still sit boarded up.
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A Bellevue motel at the center of a major federal sex and labor trafficking case is being demolished.
Demolition crews began tearing down the motel on Fort Crook Road early Friday morning. The property was one of four motels where prosecutors say women were prostituted and others were forced to work against their will…