Updated: 5:04 PM MST March 31, 2021
MESA, Ariz. The Mesa Police Department announced that six arrests were made after an undercover operation targeting child and human sex trafficking. Operation Leather Mitt was carried out by the Mesa Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations and the Attorney General’s Office.
Police say the suspects solicited and/or brokered deals for various sex acts and were arrested.
The suspects in this ranged in age from 21 to 56 years old:
Jonathan Techur, 33, is charged with child sex trafficking, attempted sexual conduct with a minor and money laundering.
Dougla Klingenberg, 56, is charged with luring and attempted sexual conduct with a minor.
IRONTON â A Columbus, Ohio, man was charged with involuntary manslaughter, among other charges, for giving another inmate at the Lawrence County Jail fentanyl that led to his death.
James Edward Lee Thomas, 25, was indicted earlier this week on charges of involuntary manslaughter, illegal conveyance of prohibited items onto the grounds of a detention facility, possession and trafficking of 27 grams of fentanyl, possession of cocaine and possession of a controlled substance.
Thomas was arrested on a charge of possession of cocaine June 26 last year following a traffic stop by the Ohio State Highway Patrol, said Prosecuting Attorney Brigham Anderson.
He was able to get released on the cocaine possession charge and currently is at large, Anderson said.