6 arrested in Wichita child sex trafficking sweep, police say
Six people were taken into police custody late Thursday and early Friday after Wichita police and a federal agency received information from a 15-year-old girl about a possible child sex trafficking operation, police said.
Police said the girl was a victim in the case. Wichita police partnered with the FBI and Homeland Security in the investigation, which is ongoing.
A little after 7 a.m. Friday, the SWAT team arrived in the 2400 block of South St. Clair in southwest Wichita, near Pawnee and Meridian. Wichita police arrested four suspects at that location, Officer Charley Davidson said.
Two other people were booked into jail in the case early Friday morning, Davidson said.
Sedgwick County Jail records show 20-year-old Kelly Wayne Holt and 25-year-old James Deangelo Sexton were arrested Thursday and booked into jail early Friday morning on suspicion of aggravated human trafficking.
Holt and Sexton were arrested around 10 p.m. Thursday at 10047 W. 29th Street N. That is the address for a Hampton Inn. It’s not clear why the two men were arrested there.
Sexton also is being held on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, a parole violation and criminal possession of a firearm. He was sentenced in 2013 for two counts of aggravated robbery in Sedgwick County, Kansas Department of Corrections records show.
Sexton is a parolee under a high-level supervision by the parole system, state records show.
The Kansas Department of Corrections issued a warrant for Sexton on Wednesday.
He was last released from prison on Jan. 24 after being convicted of two counts of attempted aggravated robbery for crimes in November 2012 in Sedgwick County, corrections records show.
Sexton’s primary address on the Kansas offender registry is listed as being in the 1700 block of South George Washington Drive.
This story will be updated with more information as it becomes available.
This story was originally published August 24, 2018 at 8:45 AM with the headline "6 arrested in Wichita child sex trafficking sweep, police say."