Thir­teen women and a teenage girl were res­cued from sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions be­ing run out of two spa lo­ca­tions in Mara­bel­la and Cunu­pia yes­ter­day.

The op­er­a­tions were part of a ma­jor Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to hu­man traf­fick­ing across Trinidad and tar­get­ed branch­es of the Triple R Spa.

Dur­ing si­mul­ta­ne­ous op­er­a­tions, code-named Triple Knock, of­fi­cers res­cued six women and a 13-year-old girl at the spa’s Pearl Av­enue, Mara­bel­la lo­ca­tion, and sev­en Latin Amer­i­can women, aged 19 to 25, at the Cunu­pia branch on Sun­rise Cres­cent.