An online advertisement offering sexual services from a 17-year-old girl who had been missing since 2019 led to Saturday’s human trafficking arrest of a man attempted to pimp her out, according to Miami-Dade police.
An arrest report says once missing persons investigators saw the online ad, undercover cops made a one-hour, $500 appointment for sex. The report says at the hookup spot, near Northwest 25th Street and 107th Avenue, police saw the girl get out of a white Mercedes driven by 27-year-old West Miami-Dade resident Christian Carvajal. That’s when they arrested Carvajal and took everybody east on Northwest 25th Street to Miami-Dade Police Department headquarters.
The girl told police she’d met Carvajal last week on Instagram. He agreed to drive her to the undercover cop appointment for $250, half the agreed upon session rate, and made two other appointments that day for her. One would pay $1,000 of which she said he expected to get $500 from her.
Carvajal’s version, according to the arrest report, was he met the girl on on Instagram this week, and he would make $200 for taking her to the undercover appointment. When he picked her up in Little Havana, he told police, he suspected she might be a minor but did no checking other than asking her age, which she gave as 18. Carvajal said he was supposed to drive her to Homestead after the undercover appointment.