🔹“Operation Takedown” took place March 30 to April 9 in Hillsborough County, leading up to WrestleMania. It is the 2nd human trafficking operation conducted by the sheriff’s office this year ahead of a large-scale community event.
🔹Two of the arrested include Earnest Benjamin, 39, a pastor at Breath of Life Worship Church in Tampa & Christopher Ray, 39, a girls HS basketball coach at Land O’Lakes HS.
🔹“Both of these men, trusted and revered members of our community, were arrested for soliciting another to commit prostitution,” Sheriff Chronister
🔹Benjamin received two charges of contributing to delinquency or dependency of a child because he had his two small children in the car while “soliciting someone for the acts of a sex trade.” https://www.wbtw.com/news/pastor-girls-high-school-basketball-coach-among-79-arrested-in-florida-human-trafficking-operation-2/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&utm_source