A 33-year-old Long Beach man arrested in Orange County by a human trafficking task force has been charged with multiple felony counts following an investigation that led to the rescue of a 17-year-old victim from an Anaheim motel, officials announced Wednesday.
Investigators with the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force received a tip on Jan. 8 from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about the 17-year-old possibly being the victim of human trafficking.
“The task force immediately launched a human trafficking investigation and began searching for the girl,” according to a statement from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. “Just hours later, … investigators found the teenage girl and her trafficker, 33-year-old Michael Terrell Armstrong of Long Beach, at an Anaheim motel.”…