In November, a group of community activists invited me to join one of their weekly walks down "the Blade," a strip of International Boulevard in Oakland infamous for sex trafficki ...

More than 100 trafficked women and girls sometimes work on a street that neighbors say "belongs to the sex industry." ...

(KRON) — A 37-year-old man is facing a potential life prison sentence for trafficking women on “The Blade,” a stretch of International Boulevard in Oakland plagued by nightly prostitution. Michael ...

Michael Simon admitted directing women to meet customers at Oakland hotels, taking their earnings and assaulting them when they did not comply.

Federal prosecutors say a 37-year-old Oakland man has admitted his role in a violent sex-trafficking ring operating along ...