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KY Sex Trafficking

Posted: 3:43 PM May 25, 2012

The US Attorney's Office says one of the leaders of a prostitution ring that operated in Lexington pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges today.

Marco Antonio Flores-Benitez, 38, and Roxana Serna-Olea, 36, are each charged with multiple crimes related to sex trafficking.

Flores-Benitez pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges while Serna-Olea pleaded guilty to interstate prostitution charges.

According to court documents, starting in December 2006 Flores-Benitez and Serna-Olea operated a prostitution delivery service for customers between Lexington and Louisville and they also ran a brothel in Lexington.

It marks the first-ever sex trafficking conviction in Kentucky.