NASH COUNTY, N.C. — A routine traffic stop in North Carolina may have prevented a case of child trafficking, according to police.
Deputies with the Nash County Police Department arrested Alejandro Hernandez Vazquez, 40, after realizing his 16-year-old female passenger had been reported missing by Florida’s Coral Springs Police Department only five hours earlier.
Deputies initially pulled over Alejandro Hernandez Vazquez at midnight on July 4 after he committed a traffic violation in a 2016 Audi SUV on Interstate 95. The release noted that the deputies"developed reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity was afoot" after asking a series of routine questions.
"The suspect was not known to the family, nor did he have permission to transport the juvenile across state lines," police said.Children account for over 30% of the missing persons in the United States, with 337,195 reports of missing young people entered into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center in 2021.
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