Portland Police Nab 18 Men in Sex Trafficking Sting

Eighteen men are under arrest, nabbed in an two recent missions by the Portland Police Bureau's Sex Trafficking Unit.

Investigators went online, placing ads on escort sites where men reached out to women who turned out to be police decoys. The men offered to pay for sex and would be arrested when they showed up at hotels.

Police ay that several Portland area hotels in the operation.

The FBI's Child Exploitation Task Force assisted in the operations.

The names of those arrested:

30-year-old Himanshu Jain
29-year-old Vittal Ramu
40-year-old Cameron Parmalee
27-year-old Brian Patrick Wood
32-year-old Chase Lemke
31-year-old Dale Bennett
29-year-old Neil Sahm
45-year-old Victor Lonnie Johnson
25-year-old David Denman
28-year-old Judah Pike
67-year-old Richard Carleton
31-year-old Jason Fuller
44-year-old Daniel Saunders
30-year-old Korey Bringman
40-year-old Spencer Chun
22-year-old Hung Pham
34-year-old Phong Nguyen

If you know or think that someone may be involved in trafficking or is being exploited, please contact the Portland Police Bureau's Sex Trafficking Unit at 503-823-4800, the Sexual Assault Resource Center hotline 1-800-640-5311; or, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1-800-843-5678 or via the Cyber Tipline: http://www.missingkids.org/Cyb...