Third suspect charged in Operation Purple Ryain

Six months af­ter the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) launched Op­er­a­tion Pur­ple Ryain in Rio Claro, a third sus­pect has been charged in con­nec­tion with the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

On Mon­day, 14 Sep­tem­ber, CTU of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed 40-year-old Se­monne Mark of Rio Claro. Mark was for­mal­ly charged yes­ter­day with five of­fences un­der the Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Act, Chap. 12:10.

He faces four counts of traf­fick­ing in per­sons by har­bour­ing, in­volv­ing three adults and one mi­nor, and one count of traf­fick­ing in per­sons by trans­port­ing a mi­nor.