A police search targeting child traffickers led to the arrest of 17 people, Genesee County Sheriff
Chris Swanson announced at a press conference on April 12th. Over the course of
five months, Swanson said that a team in his department known as GHOST (Genesee
Human Oppression Strike Team) had set up six stings, during which law enforcement
agents posed as teens on social media sites.
The people who arrived and expected to assault the children, were instead arrested and
will be prosecuted.The people arrested came from across the county, including Grand
Blanc, Davison, Flint Township and Fenton, Swanson said, as well as from outside the
county. One was a Burton firefighter who’d also previously served as a police officer in
multiple agencies outside the city, which Swanson did not name.
The rescue operation, included a search for 27 children. Using information from
schools, hospitals, probate courts, and human service agencies, including child welfare
and the foster care system. The search was successful, finding 7 of the missing
children.

Information from https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/08/17-arrested-in-child-trafficking-sweep-in-gene
see-county.html