Taney County and Stone County, MO. – Two counties recently arrested 10 different individuals for sexually trafficking children.
On June 24 and 25, investigators and officers with the Stone County Sheriff’s Office, Taney County Sheriff’s Office, Branson Police Department, COMET Drug Task Force, Missouri Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Task Force, and the Pathways Project joined together for a multi-agency internet sting operation. The agencies conducted multiple counter-human trafficking operations in Stone and Taney Counties as well as the Branson area.
Investigators made contact with multiple commercial sex providers and discovered several of the workers were victims of human trafficking. They made 10 arrests for Enticement of a Child, Sexual Trafficking of a Child in the Second Degree, Soliciting Prostitution, Promoting Prostitution, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Three of the arrests included Nayib Saldana, Dalton Parton, and Christian Diewert who are facing charges of Sexual Trafficking of a Child. Mariko Kwizera is facing a charge of Enticement of Child. All four of these individuals are being held without bond.
Neither Sheriff’s Department has released any other arrest information, including names, for the other 6 individuals charged.
