An Alarming Tip Leads a Reporter to L.A.’s Figueroa Street

A journalist spent more than two years investigating a 50-block stretch in Los Angeles, where girls are sex trafficked in ...

Scared kids and broken systems: A rare look inside the Los Angeles sex-trafficking crisis

The crisis is known by many, but truly seen by few — perhaps, until now. Sex trafficking in Los Angeles operates in plain ...
Laweekly

Emerson Noel Escobar Gonzalez Dies in 2-Car Accident on Figueroa Street [Los Angeles, CA]

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 8, 2025) – Sunday night, Emerson Noel Escobar Gonzalez was killed in a 2-car accident on Figueroa Street. Dispatchers received calls around 9:20 p.m., near the 450 block of West ...
Los Angeles Times

Gangsters trafficked runaways and foster kids for sex in South L.A., feds charge

A federal indictment charges 11 alleged gang members and associates with controlling prostitution along the Figueroa Corridor of South Los Angeles. Six reputed members and associates of the Hoover ...

Los Angeles man sentenced to prison for attempting to pimp woman along Figueroa Corridor

A 21-year-old Los Angeles man was sentenced Friday to 16 months in state prison for attempting to coerce a woman into sex work along the Figueroa Corridor last December, a punishment that will be ...