Posted: Aug 10, 2010 6:34 PM EDT

By ANN KEIL
6 News Reporter  

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The FBI and humanitarian groups want to draw attention to the problem of human trafficking. They say it's happening in East Tennessee.

Vulnerable people, often from other countries, are kept effectively as slaves working for criminal organizations.

"It's typically American criminal enterprises here luring foreign national here with the promise of some type of gainful abuse. Then, through physical abuse, psychological coercion, even physical restraint forcing them into labor as prostitutes, as drug traffickers, sometimes in the agricultural arena and even in the hospitality area," said Richard Lambert, FBI special agent in the Knoxville field office. Read More...

     Homeland Security Daily Human Trafficking Report     

August 11, 2010

The August 10, 2010 DOJ-FBI human trafficking training that was held in Knoxville, TN was listed in the Homeland Security Daily Human Trafficking Report. Read More...