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NBC4 Columbus published March 19, 2025: Four human trafficking victims rescued in Ohio.
KHOU 11 published March 19, 2025: Houston-area men arrested, 4 Texas trafficking victims, including juvenile, rescued in Ohio. FBI agents in Houston alerted Ohio law enforcement that a missing juvenile was believed to be in Columbus. That investigation led to the arrests.
KHOU11 News, Houston, TX local
written by Michelle Homer, Julissa Garza, Jaime E. Galvan
Tuesday March 18, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two men from the Houston area are behind bars in Columbus, Ohio on charges of trafficking and compelling prostitution of a minor. Four victims, including a juvenile, were rescued, the FBI said.
Larry Hill, 26, of Houston, and Timarrea Granderson, 27, of Cypress, will be returned to Texas to face charges.
The investigation was launched when the FBI's Houston office and the Texas Department of Public Safety alerted Ohio authorities that a juvenile trafficking victim from Texas was believed to be in Columbus.
On March 13, the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force and Columbus police arrested Granderson and rescued one of the victims found with him.
Later that evening, Hill was arrested after he barricaded himself inside a Columbus residence where two more of the trafficking victims were found, according to authorities.
The fourth victim was rescued at another location.
According to KHOU 11’s sister station, WBNS, the arrests took place at an Airbnb rental home, leaving local residents shocked.
“I said, 'Thank you, Jesus, you got them because you don’t do that to kids,'" one neighbor said.
The owner of the Airbnb property, who does not live there, said the two men were only at the home for less than a day before their arrests.
"We had no previous interaction with the guest nor the other two individuals that were taken into custody. Thankful that law enforcement was able to apprehend these people within 24 hours of their arrival and hopefully protect more people from any harm in the future," Kyle Collette, the property owner, said.
Granderson and Hill will face charges in Texas, including trafficking of a person and compelling prostitution of a minor. The men are awaiting extradition to Texas.
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