TWO ARRESTED ON HUMANTRAFFICKING CHARGES

A woman who was arrested a couple of years ago in a bizarre kidnapping incident at NorthPark Center was arrested again in August in connection with a Northeast Dallas child-sex-trafficking case. Michelle Jenene Tortora, 19, and Arthur Lee Waters, 30, both were charged with compelling prostitution (child) and trafficking in persons (child) after a 15-year-old victim appeared on backpage.com, a classified advertising vehicle that New York Times columnist Nick Kristof once called a “front for human trafficking.” A tipster led Dallas Police Department’s child exploitation unit and Lake Highlands-based Northeast patrol officers to a northeast Dallas location where the victim was rescued and where Tortora and Waters were arrested, police say. Waters and Tortora are being held on $50,000 bond in Dallas County Jail. Tortora was arrested in 2012 for her accompanying role in the carjacking, beating and kidnapping of a woman who was idling in the NorthPark Center parking lot. She was accused of helping a man named Tommy Eugene Simmons commit that crime Simmons is serving a 30-year sentence for it.

Hughes Babb

Age of Jeri Anderson, a woman who was stabbed to death during a fight in the Lake Highlands area

39

Age of suspect, Kreneshia Mashunti, who turned herself in to police a few hours after Anderson died at Medical City Hospital

3:39 a.m.

Time on Aug. 10 that Mashunti was officially charged with murder and booked into Dallas County Jail

SOURCE Dallas Police Department