{"id":15778,"date":"2022-08-14T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/arresting-hillsborough-deputy-faces-human-trafficking-charges\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:09:22","slug":"arresting-hillsborough-deputy-faces-human-trafficking-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15778","title":{"rendered":"Arresting Hillsborough deputy faces human trafficking charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detention deputy has been arrested and suspended without pay after he allegedly tried to pay to have sex with someone he believed to be a minor, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Marvin Vasquez, 24, was off-duty when St. Petersburg police arrested him Saturday.  He faces charges of human trafficking: commercial sexual activity and unlawful use of a two-way communications device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I am extremely disappointed that a person sworn to serve and protect is now facing charges related to such egregious behavior,&#8221; Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a news release.  &#8220;I remain committed to eradicating this street act from our community. It will not be tolerated by anyone, and certainly not by a sworn law enforcement officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Vasquez joined the sheriff&#8217;s office in January and has been suspended without pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is a developing story.  Stay with tampabay.com for updates.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/breaking-news\/2022\/08\/14\/hillsborough-detention-deputy-faces-human-trafficking-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detention deputy has been arrested and suspended without pay after he allegedly tried to pay to have sex with someone he believed to be a minor, authorities said. Marvin Vasquez, 24, was off-duty when St. Petersburg police arrested him Saturday. He faces charges of human trafficking: commercial sexual activity and unlawful use of a two-way communications device. &#8220;I am extremely disappointed that a person sworn to serve and protect is now facing charges related to such egregious behavior,&#8221; Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a news release. &#8220;I remain committed to eradicating this street&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}