POLK TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Disturbing details about sex-trafficking in the Poconos. Investigators say they broke up an operation that had been running for more than two years. 28/22 News reporter Heidi Martens breaks down what police say happened. State police uncovered the sex-trafficking operation taking place here in Polk Township.
According to investigators, several women were recruited online, then pressured into doing commercial sex acts for money.
Thomas Green is accused of pretending to start relationships with the women, then controlling their lives.