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FBI Conducts Multi-Agency Investigation Cracking Down on Trafficking
Authorities rescued 27 victims, including 10 minors, uncovering a trafficking ring exploiting migrants with fees up to $79,000 and laundering over $565,000 in Nebraska, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations raided Omaha sites, arresting five Indian nationals linked to alleged trafficking, law enforcement said.
- The investigation began, leading to searches at 16 locations, including four hotels and two residences, over four years, linking suspects to trafficking and fraud.
- During the raids, FBI and Homeland Security Investigations seized over 14 million dollars in cash, and four suspects were taken into custody, according to authorities.
- The unsealed indictment states suspects face charges of labor and sex trafficking, fraud, money laundering, visa misuse and harboring wanted criminals, involving hotels and Brow & Lash salons.
- Importantly, FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel said, `This investigation revealed victims who were forced into sexual activity, living and working in dangerous and unsanitary conditions, and extorted to work in grueling jobs with little to no pay.
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Five Indian-Americans charged in Nebraska human trafficking case
The accused — Kentakumar “Ken” Chaudhari (36), Rashmi Ajit “Falguni” Samani (42), Amit Prahladbhai “Amit” Chaudhari (32), Amit Babubhai “Matt” Chaudhari (33), and Maheshkumar “Mahesh” Chaudhari (38) — allegedly owned and managed hotels where minors and adults were exploited for sex and forced labour
Hotels in Nebraska Used for Human Trafficking: Federal Officials
Multiple people used hotels in the Omaha area to carry out human, drug, and sex trafficking, federal authorities have said in new charging documents. Law enforcement officers executing search warrants on Aug. 12 at the hotels recovered 10 minors who were allegedly being forced to work at the facilities for long hours, according to an affidavit filed in federal court by a special agent with the FBI. Another 17 adults, many of them illegal immigra…
FBI conducts multi-agency investigation cracking down on trafficking | News Channel 3-12
By Jake Anderson, Madison Perales Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — A joint investigation four years in the making between the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigations and local enforcement. Tuesday’s operation was part of a nationwide FBI initiative to find violent criminals. “The takedown today focused on disrupting and dismantling criminal activity here in Nebraska as…
FBI conducts multi-agency investigation cracking down on trafficking
By Jake Anderson, Madison Perales Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — A joint investigation four years in the making between the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigations and local enforcement. Tuesday’s operation was part of a nationwide FBI initiative to find violent criminals. “The takedown today focused on disrupting and dismantling criminal activity here in Nebraska as…
Montana Standard
Nebraska hotel owner swept up in FBI raid once paid someone to rob him
A man arrested Tuesday in connection with a human trafficking operation in Omaha had satisfactorily completed a sentence of one-year probation for orchestrating a robbery of his own business.
Lexington Clipper-Herald
The Grand Island IndependentOmaha hotel owner swept up in FBI raid once paid someone to rob him
A 36-year-old man arrested Tuesday by federal officers in connection with a human trafficking operation in Omaha had satisfactorily completed a sentence of one-year probation for orchestrating a robbery of his own business.
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