Georgia’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit is expanding to Augusta thanks to new funding provided in the Amended Fiscal Year 2025 budget. Attorney General Chris Carr announced this week the hiring of one new prosecutor and two new investigators who will oversee the Unit’s regional efforts starting on May 1.
“Our Gang Prosecution Unit has already established a strong presence in Augusta, where we have worked with law enforcement to recover 15 lbs. of fentanyl – enough to kill 3.5 million Georgians,” said Carr. “Now, we’re strengthening our efforts to combat human trafficking throughout the region, and we won’t rest until every buyer and seller is held accountable. With each new arrest, indictment and conviction, we will continue to send a strong message that Georgia’s children are not for sale.”
Those joining the team are former Toombs Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney Megan Adams, who will serve as an Assistant Attorney General, and veteran law enforcement officers Patrick Brown and William Loomer, who will serve as Criminal Investigators. Brown was most recently a Gang Investigator with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, and Loomer previously served as Supervisor of the Grovetown Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division.
Created in 2019, the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit works hand-in-hand with local, state, and federal law enforcement to rescue victims and prosecute offenders throughout the state. This team has since secured more than 50 convictions and rescued and assisted over 200 children. The Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit is housed in the Attorney General’s Prosecution Division, which also includes Carr’s Gang Prosecution Unit, his White Collar and Cyber Crime Unit, and his Organized Retail Crime Unit.
Last year the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit:
● Convicted two individuals from Ohio, one of whom was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, for trafficking a 16-year-old female who was reported as missing out of South Carolina and eventually located by Sheriff’s Deputies in Greene County.
● Convicted two more members of the Inglewood Family Gangster Bloods – including a high-ranking member of the gang – who were involved in the trafficking of a 16-year-old female who had been missing from the Dougherty County area for approximately one month.
● Secured its 12th conviction in a case involving the trafficking of a 17-year-old female who was recovered from a hotel in Fulton County.
● Obtained an indictment charging three individuals in the trafficking of a 13-year-old female in Houston County.
