Recent sex trafficking arrests here in Murfreesboro make us aware how widespread this crime actually is. On Monday (3/9/2015) in neighboring Wilson County, special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested two Georgia men charged in connection with an ongoing TBI human trafficking investigation.
At the request of 15th District Attorney General Tommy Thompson, the TBI began investigating a sex trafficking case on August 1, 2012, involving a minor female victim. During the course of the investigation, agents developed information that on September 4, 2011, fifty-five year old James Elston Harris and forty-three year old James Green, Jr. were engaged in sexual intercourse with the victim.
In January, the Wilson County Grand Jury returned indictments charging Harris, of Hogansville, Georgia, with six counts of Especially Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, and Green, of LaGrange, Georgia, with one count of Especially Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.
Both men were arrested Monday (3/9/2015), and booked into the Wilson County Jail. Bond for each was set at at $2,500. Harris and Green were both previously indicted in June, 2014, when each was charged with Aggravated Statutory Rape stemming from the same incident.
