2 Clearlake men arrested on suspicion of human trafficking for prostitution
Lake County authorities have arrested two Clearlake men suspected of human trafficking linked to prostitution, a bust that culminates a six-month investigation, District Attorney Don Anderson announced Friday.
Timothy Lee Williams, 52, was arrested Thursday as he sat in a car outside a motel where the District Attorney’s investigators set up a sting operation involving a woman they believed was working for Williams “possibly not of her free will,” Anderson said in a statement.
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