SWEETWATER COUNTY During the week of April 26, Sweetwater County law enforcement underwent a four-day advanced human trafficking investigations and victim advocacy training.
The training was brought to Sweetwater County through the efforts of Uprising, a Wyoming-based nonprofit committed to empowering communities to confront sex trafficking and exploitation through awareness and prevention education, in coordination with local nonprofit Sweetwater Against Trafficking.
The two organizations and the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office worked together to bring nationally-sought after law enforcement human trafficking expert Detective Joseph Scaramucci to conduct the training.
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Detective Scaramucci has been working in human trafficking investigations operations since 2014 and has been doing trainings on how to work investigations and operations since then.
SWEETWATER COUNTY Former member of the Wyoming Senate John Martin Hastert was arrested Thursday for alleged solicitation of an act of prostitution, along with three other men.
Hastert, 62, of Rock Springs, was arrested in Rock Springs by the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) on charges of allegedly soliciting an act of prostitution and interference with a peace officer, interference or resisting arrest.
Allen Lee Pahl, 50, of Point of Rocks; Conor Michael Latta, 28, of Gillette; and Kenneth Daniel Nosich, 58, of Rock Springs, were all arrested for alleged solicitation of an act of prostitution as well.
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