Traffic stop yields prostitution ring

By Janet Kanters Times Editor

A Calgary man has been charged with several sex trade-related offences following a traffic stop.
On the afternoon of June 4, Gleichen RCMP assisted Wheatland County with a suspicious vehicle stop on Highway 901 on the Siksika Nation. Preliminary investigation revealed vehicle occupants were in possession of drugs and were in transport to conduct illicit activities.
The vehicle’s driver, Duc Florestal (25), was determined to be managing sex trade workers and receiving material benefit from their enterprises. He has been charged with offering to provide sexual services for consideration, receiving material benefit derived from the commission of an offence, transport to a bawdy house, proceeds of crime and two counts of failure to comply with probation order.
Florestal was released on his own recognizance and is scheduled to appear in Siksika Provincial Court on July 25.