ARREST MADE IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATION IN LONDON
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Victims Identified, Investigation Remains Ongoing
(ORILLIA, ON) - A Windsor resident has been arrested and charged following a human trafficking investigation.
In May 2025, police received information about a victim being trafficked through online advertisements. Under the Provincial Human Trafficking Intelligence-led Joint Forces Strategy (IJFS), the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Anti-Human Trafficking Unit began an investigation and identified an additional victim.
As a result of the investigation, on Wednesday July 16, 2025, IJFS members from the OPP, and members of the London Police Service’s Tactical Support Services, Hamilton Police Service, Kingston Police, Ottawa Police Service, Peel Regional Police, and Toronto Police Service arrested and charged Jarett PHILLIPS, 30 years old of Windsor, with the following Criminal Code offences:
- Communicate with anyone for the purpose of obtaining sexual services, section 286.1(1)
- Procuring (recruit, hold, conceal, or harbour or exercise control, direction or influence), section 286.3(1) - three counts
The accused remains in custody and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa on Monday, July 21, 2025.