Four men arrested for human trafficking in New Orleans, NOPD says

Four men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of human trafficking throughout New Orleans and southeast Louisiana, authorities said.

Leroy Allen, 31, was the alleged ringleader of a family enterprise that trafficked girls and young women in and out of a heavily armed Little Woods apartment, the New Orleans Police Department said Friday.

“They were acting in concert to move victims (through an apartment at 12345 N. I-10 Service Road),” NOPD deputy superintendent Nicholas Gernon said. “That’s what we believe they were using for most of their activities.”…

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