The heartbreaking story of one mother's fight to save her prostitute daughter from Las Vegas's seedy underbelly
- Hannah Swanson was lured by pimp and boyfriend Kobe Hogue into a life of prostitution in Sin City
- Her mother, Andrea, 50, has bravely gone public about her fight to win back her daughter
- Her story featured on British TV show and now MailOnline can reveal that they are rebuilding relationship and Hannah is apparently free from pimp
- But she admits that she still doesn't know where Hannah is living
- Andrea, a nurse, married to an FBI agent, with two other sons in the military, has shared the full horror of her experience
- How Hannah was groomed and even after she was arrested returned to Hogue - who was using Hannah as her 'bottom' - slang for a pimp’s most prized girl
- Andrea Swanson will always regret the day she gave her daughter’s boyfriend a second chance. Because it was the day she lost her child a second time to a dark world of violence and prostitution. Today Andrea, 50, who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a vocal campaigner raising awareness of sex trafficking. Earlier this week a television interview was aired in which Andrea shared the full horror of how a predatory pimp ‘tore apart’ her middle class family when he started dating her daughter, 16-year-old Hannah. - (Black-on-white)
A former actress claims she didn't know her husband murdered the 27-year-old mother of his two young children until he pushed her to help hide the body parts more than a week later. Amanda Hayes, 41, took the stand in her defense, saying she only agreed to help hide the chopped up body parts of 
YORK, Pa. —A York man is behind bars, charged with criminal homicide. Jermane Taylor, 23, was arrested in connection with the death of 34-year-old 
A 28-year-old Colorado Springs man has been arrested in connection with a human trafficking and child prostitution investigation. Last September, Colorado Springs Police were contacted by a man who believed his teenage daughter may have been involved in juvenile prostitution. Police conducted a complex human trafficking investigation, determining that several juvenile females from Colorado Springs were be trafficked across the Front Range. Police said the investigation determined that 28-year-old Kavion Lydell Powell, of Colorado Spings, was a suspect in the case. He is suspected of advertising juvenile females for commercial sex acts and transporting them to complete the acts. He then collected the money, police said Wednesday.
A former school custodian in Sussex County gets 25 years in prison for the rape of a teenage girl last year. Fifty-five-year-old Frederick Massey (Frederick H. Massey Jr.) was arrested last year in connection with inappropriate sexual contact with the girl in a wooded area near Redden State Forest. Massey Friday also gets credit for 239 days served, and his sentence would be followed by home confinement and intensive probation. He pleaded guilty last month to one count of third-degree rape. Police said Massey met the girl in the fall of 2012. He was a custodian at Shields Elementary School in Lewes.
The Orlando Police Department says a woman was sexually assaulted in a parking garage on W. Jefferson St. around 6 p.m. on Wednesday night. A security guard heard screaming on the 6th floor of the garage and went to investigate. The security guard saw a man assaulting a woman who was on the ground in the northeast corner of the garage by the stairway. The victim told police the suspect was walking to her car and was suddenly grabbed from behind the neck. She told police the suspect told her not to scream or he would kill her and then began to rape her. The suspect fled when he saw the security guard. He was later tracked down in an open field just one block north of where the attack occurred. Police said the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Tobias Franklin, offered unsolicited statements about the sexual assault and was arrested.
A Kenner man whose criminal history amounted to a handful of marijuana cases dating back to his teenage years now faces charges of raping two children. Jamaal Johnson, 32, was indicted by the Jefferson Parish grand jury Thursday, on two counts of aggravated rape. 
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A judge has called the man accused of raping and robbing several teenagers in Port St. Lucie an 'extreme danger' to the community. Jimmie Ernest Glover, 26, made his first appearance in court Friday morning in St. Lucie County. Glover is suspected of the armed robbery and sexual assault of several teens in the playground of Mariposa Elementary School in Port St. Lucie on Jan. 26, according to Master Sgt. Frank Sabol, spokesman for Port St. Lucie Police Department.
A North Side man was arrested this afternoon in connection with the rape of an 18-year-old in McKees Rocks last year. Eugene T. David, 45, surrendered to Pittsburgh police around 4:30 p.m. without incident, according to Allegheny County Sheriff William Mullen. Mr. David was wanted on charges of rape, terroristic threats, and unlawful restraint in the McKees Rocks incident that took place in July. 
MEMPHIS, TN - - A rape suspect is charged in a second assault case, Memphis police announced Thursday. Kotay Floyd, 35, was recently charged in the February 14 assault of a girl. She was walking in the 200 block of Georgia Avenue when a man grabbed her. He was armed with a knife, and he forced the victim into a nearby lot. He was then charged with aggravated Rape, aggravated Kidnapping, and resisting official detention. In the second case, which happened on December 20, 2013, a girl was walking to Booker T. Washington High School when she observed a male in the area of Crump and Mississippi boulevards. The unknown man attempted to grab her, and he dragged her into some vacant apartments. A witness chased him off after the victim was physically assaulted. 
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - A third suspect arrested in connection with the rape of a woman last month has been identified. North Miami Beach police Friday announced the arrest of Dwayne Pryce. A 26-year-old woman was picking up food from a North Miami Beach restaurant Jan. 16 when two teenagers forced her into the back seat of her car and drove her to a remote area of northern Miami-Dade County, where she was sexually assaulted. Police previously said Antonio Hodgson, 16, and Terry Petit-Frere, 17, were responsible. During Friday's news conference, police revealed their belief that Pryce was the suspect who followed behind the car in a van. Detectives were able to use surveillance video to find the van. Police said they also found a fingerprint belonging to Pryce on the victim's food bag, even though he told them he was never in the car with the victim.
MINEOLA, N.Y. – A teenager from Queens has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for two violent sex attacks last year on Long Island. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced the sentencing Thursday of 17-year-old Nashane Peterkin of Springfield Gardens. He pleaded guilty in December to rape, strangulation, assault and other charges in connection with the attacks which both occurred in Valley Stream. On Aug. 12, 2013, Peterkin assaulted a 
INDIANAPOLIS — A probationary Marion County sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after he was arrested in Hamilton County and charged with public indecency. Phillip J. Reed, 30, was arrested Wednesday at the L.A. Fitness health club on 116th Street in Fishers. A woman working out there claimed he exposed himself to her, according to a Fishers Police spokesperson. Reed was hired by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office as a probationary employee in November, and was enrolled in the law enforcement academy awaiting graduation. A MCSO spokesperson said Reed was fired Thursday.
SALEM -- Advocates of gay marriage saw the possibility of a quick legal win on the horizon Thursday after Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced she would not defend Oregon's ban on gay marriage in federal court. 
Baton Rouge police arrested two teens Tuesday accused in the fatal Feb. 1 attack of a 55-year-old Indiana native, a crime that might have been committed simply because the teens wanted to see who hit harder.
DOWNERS GROVE – 
Missouri officials said late Wednesday afternoon that they have arranged with an unidentified pharmacy to provide the lethal injection chemical for use in next week’s execution of a Kansas City man. The state revealed the existence of the supplier of pentobarbital — the drug used in the state’s last three executions — in a federal court filing opposing a stay of execution for Michael Taylor. Taylor is scheduled to be put to death next Wednesday for the 1989 killing of 15-year-old 
Trial for former Beaverton cop Christopher Ramoan Warren on accusations of child rape has been postponed, court records show. His trial on one count of first-degree child rape was set to begin Monday, Feb. 24, in Clark County Superior Court. The trial has been postponed until June 9. Washington County jurors last week found Warren, 34, guilty of welfare fraud. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail, followed by probation and community service. Twice fired from the Beaverton Police Department, Warren applied for public assistance in 2011, between his stints as a cop. He was convicted of lying about his address and income to obtain food stamps. Prosecutors said he ultimately used thousands of dollars in food stamps to which he was not entitled. In the Clark County case, Warren is accused of sexually abusing a 5-year-old relative. 
Ceres Police say a woman was able to fend off an attacker 100 pounds heavier than she is with a shard of glass Tuesday morning. Aaron Modisett-Hollie, 18, was released from jail the previous night, police say. According to investigators, he saw the woman in her front yard as he wandered her neighborhood and waited until she went back inside her house to break it. Modisett-Hollie reportedly threw the woman to the floor, but she used a shard of glass from the window the man broke to stab him several times, according to police. After fleeing, police say a bleeding Modisett-Hollie knocked on a neighbor’s door to ask for a ride. That neighbor reported the suspicious request to police, who were then able to track the man down. 
GLOUCESTER Twp., N.J., – Gloucester Township Police are searching for a man they say began to help a woman clear snow off of her parked car, then he attempted to grab her and kiss her. The alleged incident was reported around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Autumn Ridge Apartment Complex on the 1500 block of Little Gloucester Road. Officers responded for a report of a man who attempted to inappropriately touch a 49-year-old woman near the “F” Building of the complex. According to police, the man began to help the woman clear snow off of her parked vehicle, then he allegedly attempted to grab her and kiss her. Police say she screamed and pushed him off, and he fled from the scene on foot. The suspect is described as a Black male in his early 20′s, brown eyes, 5’8″ to 5’10″, medium build with a “pointy nose.” 
A woman who shot her mother, then doused her in gasoline and set her ablaze in a Cobbs Creek home was found guilty, but mentally ill Wednesday. Jahina Damon, 35, was found guilty but mentally ill on charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and arson for the Dec. 20, 2007, incident inside a home on the 6000 block of Cobbs Creek Parkway. Damon killed her mother,
A Westland woman is expected to be arraigned this afternoon (Thursday) on a charge that she deliberately caused the traffic accident that fatally injured an Ypsilanti woman. A warrant has been issued charging Ponya Lee, 27, with second-degree murder. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Westland 18th District Court. The two-car accident occurred Monday afternoon when a car traveling westbound on Warren Road went through a red light at Wayne Road and struck a northbound vehicle driven by 
CAMDEN, N.J., – Authorities say two men have been arrested for allegedly attempting to abduct a woman, less than a block from Camden’s City Hall, by stuffing her into a trash can. Hasian Womack, 35, of Philadelphia, and Willie Dennis, 24, of Indiana, Pa., were arrested Wednesday morning in Pennsylvania, Camden County Police said. It happened Jan. 21 at 9:30 a.m. at the Zoujati Salon in the unit block of N. 6th Street in Camden. 
New Orleans Police released a sketch of one of two suspects wanted for striking a person in the head while they rode their bicycle down Esplanade Avenue this past Friday. NOPD is searching for a 6-foot, 170-pound black 18-year-old. He is described as having an athletic build and a dark complexion and was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt with a center pocket as well as grey sweatpants. Another suspect, whom police haven’t released a sketch of, is described as a 5-5 or 5-7 black teenager with a stocky build and a dark complexion. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with grey trimming around the hood and sleeves and also had a center pocket. He was armed, police said, with a grey aluminum bat covered in black paint. According to police, the victim of the attack was riding north on Esplanade Avenue towards City Park when one of the two teenagers – the one shown in the sketch – stepped off the neutral ground to impede the bicycle near North Robertson Street. The other man police are looking for stepped out from behind a parked car and swung the baseball bat at the man on riding the bicycle.
On Sunday, the FBI, along with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested 
Four people have been charged in connection with the deaths of three males found in a Detroit house fire last week. Tenisha Jackson, 19; Larry Johnson, 20; Rashawn Johnson, 19; and Keeshon Lake, 19, have all been charged with three counts of first-degree murder; three counts felony murder; two counts armed robbery; and one count of arson. Larry Johnson was also charged for Felony Firearm and Possession of Heroin. Firefighters responded to a house fire on Bentler Street Feb. 10. They discovered three bodies inside the home. Two of the victims were already deceased and the third person was rushed to the hospital. A medical examiner has determined 
A West Palm Beach man remains in jail after being accused of killing an Indiana man and dumping his body in suburban Palm Beach Gardens. Jay-Von Avery was charged with first-degree murder Sunday morning and held without bond. Police say he shot 
(Corinth, MS) A man is being held in the deaths of two brothers found inside their burned home in Corinth, Miss. Investigators say the two brothers, 
Police have charged two teenagers over the murder of 24-year-old 
Police say they've arrested two of the six suspects seen in a cell phone video circulating online that shows two men getting beat and robbed near Downtown Austin's entertainment district. Police say Kevin Morris, 24, has been charged with theft from a person, and both he and Marcus Ferebee, 24, are charged with assault causing bodily injury. The video, recorded Jan. 26, appears to show an angry mob targeting the men near the 900 block of East 6th Street. At one point one of the victims is knocked to the ground and kicked in the head. Four other are still being searched for: Jerel Wallace, 25, Mathew McCoy, 22, Christopher Spence, 25. 
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. A fight that broke out at Cook Out on Cumberland Avenue now has Knoxville Police investigating who started it and why it left two men bloodied. Video of the fight went viral over the weekend, after four men got into an altercation inside Cook Out Friday evening. The video shows the four yelling and pushing one another for an unknown reason, then one of the men punches another in the face, knocking him to the ground. Seconds later, another man is seen being hit at least nine times in the face, all while a restaurant full of people look on. 
A Manhattan man could serve 16 years in prison as part of a plea agreement reached Wednesday in a rare state terrorism case that was criticized by his defense attorneys as being so problematic that federal authorities chose to pass on prosecuting it. Jose Pimentel, 28 years old, who had been facing a potential life sentence if convicted at a trial set to start in late February, agreed to plead guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism. In November 2011, Mr. Pimentel, a native of the Dominican Republic who was unemployed and living in his mother's Washington Heights apartment, was arrested by New York Police Department detectives following a 2 1/2 year investigation. Authorities said that Mr. Pimentel had built one pipe bomb—and gathered materials to make two others—and was recorded discussing using them to attack a police station or American soldiers returning from war. 
Jackson police have charged Michael Smith, Jr., 22, of Jackson, with rape and false imprisonment of a 
A Harlem man risked his life to save a student from the clutches of a violent sexual predator who slammed her head against the icy pavement while trying to rape her. 
The ex-girlfriend of a 60-year-old Boynton man called police when she found out his new girlfriend was 17, according to a Boynton Beach Police arrest report. George McCray of Boynton Beach faces charges of sexual activity with a minor and cocaine possession. Police arrested him on the driveway of his home on Monday. It started on Feb. 9 when McCray's ex-girlfriend told police she had to tell the 17-year-old girl's family and authorities. Police met with the girl, who said she had been in a sexual relationship with McCray for more than a month. McCray called the girl his "girlfriend," but denied having sex with her.
BALTIMORE —A 25-year-old man wanted for a 2012 sexual assault has been arrested in connection with another sexual assault and robbery. Bernard Burton was arrested for an open warrant from a 2012 sexual assault case by members of the Warrant Apprehension Task Force. Burton was linked by DNA to a sexual assault and robbery that occurred last Monday in the 2800-block of E. Fairmount Ave.
Three men are finally behind bars in Georgia for allegedly raping, shooting and setting fire to a woman on New Years Day. Miraculously, the 36-year-old victim survived the vicious attack. Joey Garron, 28, Robert Johnson and Ketorie Glover - both 23 — were systematically arrested in Columbus over the weekend. All three were charged with aggravated assault, rape, kidnapping, aggravated battery, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated sodomy, arson first degree, hijacking a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. 
An Ocala man is in jail after admitting to police he had given a 
SAN MARCOS — Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with two incidents Sunday where an intruder was found in the bedrooms of
(Millington, TN) Two people are charged with first degree murder in the death of a girl with special needs. Both are also charged with Aggravated Child Neglect. Chasara Jones and Errol Johnson are charged in the death of 
CHICAGO — A 26-year-old man charged with fatally beating and choking his live-in girlfriend’s 20-month-old son was ordered held without bond Sunday. Vernon Henry is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 
A Harrisburg woman has been arrested in connection to the death of her 11-week-old baby. Harrisburg Police say Latoya Green, 19, was arrested on Wednesday. Her 11-week-old daughter 
Investigators have issued charges against the parents of a 1-year-old found unresponsive in a north St. Louis home on Tuesday. Deonte Evans, 23, was charged with second-degree murder after prosecutors said he struck 
PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. —A 2-year-old Sanford girl was found buried in a shallow grave in Putnam County on Tuesday morning, police announced. Investigators from the Sanford Police Department, along with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were following up on leads on the disappearance of 
Judge Anthony Beltrami dismissed arguments Monday to toss out all charges against 
NEW YORK – A former jail guard who admitted to a behind-bars affair with a man convicted of killing two New York City police officers has been sentenced to one year in prison. 
A male nurse is charged with raping a patient at a Bronx nursing home on Tuesday, police said. 
A cruise ship worker is accused of raping a passenger aboard a Holland America Line vessel and then trying to throw her overboard, authorities said Tuesday. The FBI reports that 28-year-old 
A mother and daughter today told how they were glassed in the head after spurning a clubber's advances as police issued CCTV images of a man wanted over the attack. 
A man who allegedly shot at a carload of teenage pranksters, killing a cheerleader, has been charged with murder in the US state of Arkansas. Willie Noble, 48, told police he only opened fire to scare the Little Rock youngsters after his car was covered with eggs, mayonnaise and toilet paper. 
Since they became eligible for parole a decade ago, two aging ex-members of a militant black power group serving 25-years-to-life sentences for the 1971 killings of two New York City police officers have been routinely rejected for release after displaying little or no remorse. Starting this week, Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom will again go before the state Parole Board to ask for freedom. But this time, it will be after admitting for the first time that they were involved in the execution-style slayings. The admissions have reignited a debate over whether the men, who still call themselves political prisoners, have become rehabilitated after four decades in prison or are simply more willing to game the system. “As long as they keep admitting they’re political prisoners, then they aren’t taking responsibility for their actions,” said 
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Eight men were arrested Tuesday in the 1971 killing of a police officer that authorities say was part of a black power group's five-year effort to attack and kill law enforcement officers in San Francisco and New York. Police said seven of the eight are believed to be former members of the Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Black Panther Party. The Aug. 29, 1971, shooting death of 
A disgraced former Illinois Congressman is under arrest in Zimbabwe after allegedly taking hundreds of nude photos and pornographic videos. Melvin Reynolds, whose promising political career crashed in 1995 after he was convicted of statutory rape involving a 16-year-old campaign worker, was in the African country while serving as a middleman for foreign investors in tourism. Reynolds, 62, was arrested in a hotel in Harare, the Zimbabwe capital, on Monday on pornography charges and for remaining in the country illegally on an expired visa. Reynolds also ran up $24,500 in bills at two hotels, according to the state-owned newspaper the Herald.
A St. Francis College basketball player has been arrested on sex-abuse charges, and is the latest member of the team to be suspended after criminal accusations, police sources said Monday. A 21-year-old woman told cops that guard Sheldon Hagigal, 20, exposed himself and demanded oral sex on Jan. 5, the sources said. She said she escaped, then reported the alleged attack several days later. Hagigal was arrested Wednesday, just a day after teammate Anthony White was charged with assaulting and choking his girlfriend in her dorm room. 
City Councilman Chris Anderson will file a lawsuit in Hamilton County Circuit Court today to stop recall efforts against him. Anderson alleges that the recall is discriminatory and is focused on his sexuality, which he says in unconstitutional. Anderson is the first locally elected openly gay politician.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former software engineer accused of killing a Texas police office laughed after the shooting and said, "I killed a cop," witnesses told jurors Tuesday during the opening day of testimony in his trial. Brandon Daniel is accused of fatally shooting Austin police officer 
EAST BREWTON, Alabama - A Chickasaw man who was beaten and stabbed to death in his own home was laid to rest Thursday. 
Police found a woman wounded and bleeding inside a New Jersey hotel Sunday afternoon after receiving a call of an assault in progress. Toms River Police were called to the American Hotel on Route 166 just before 1:30 p.m. Inside a room, they discovered the 31-year-old victim bleeding from multiple stab wounds, according to authorities. The wounds, police say, were inflicted by Steen Tarpley, who was found an hour and a half later at a bus stop nearby. Tarpley allegedly held the victim against her will and sexually assaulted her. Investigators also say he stabbed the woman.
KOKOMO, Ind. – Police say one person died and another was arrested after a crash happened in Kokomo over the weekend.The initial investigation revealed that 21-year-old Char’Dae Avery was driving a Chevrolet southbound on Park Road at a high rate of speed. Police say Avery disregarded a stop sign at Boulevard and Park Road and collided with a Dodge heading eastbound on Boulevard.
Olivia Culbreath, 21, has been identified as the driver behind the wheel of the Camaro driving the wrong way along a Californian highway 
AUSTIN – An intoxicated man dragged a police officer with his car in an attempt to flee a hotel parking lot, according to authorities. The man, Ashton Dominique Allen, was approached by
A shot glass connected to the ongoing rape investigation targeting former NFL Pro Bowler Darren Sharper tested positive for a drug police allege is used to render people defenseless. The L.A. County district attorney’s office filed documents this week that accuse the former New Orleans Saints star of drugging as many as 11 women in four different states and raping at least seven of them.
because he now doubts the death penalty.
HOMESTEAD, Pa. —The night 14-month-old 
DALLAS — Rakeem Perkins, the man Dallas police had sought in connection with the shooting of Officer
A magistrate judge on Thursday set a $1 million bond for the man arrested Wednesday for allegedly kidnapping, robbing and raping a home health nurse in a rundown Central City fourplex last week. Brian Beasley, 21, surrendered to police after investigators secured an arrest warrant for him and three others, based on tips. Beasley was booked with armed robbery, aggravated rape and aggravated kidnapping. The other suspects remained at-large Wednesday. They are Jermaine Rumley, 21; Darren Holmes, 19; and Glenn Elliott, 17. The men are considered armed and dangerous, Braden said. The victim, a
A 17-year-old man was arrested by New Orleans police in Uptown on Friday, the last of five suspects who police believe abducted and raped a home health nurse inside an abandoned Gert Town house. David Quinn was arrested at his home in the 2900 block of General Taylor Street. 
The defendants -- Anthony Dean, 17; Janice Harney, 25; and Antoine Dean, 15 -- are each being held in lieu of $2 million bail. 
who allegedly abducted and raped an 18-year-old high school student on Dec. 7. Wilson faces counts of aggravated rape, simple kidnapping and armed robbery, and is being held in lieu of $1.75 million bond.
The mother of a woman who was raped and murdered in 1996 has told of her fury after her daughter's killer had his death sentence suspended by Washington's democratic governor Jay Inslee. 
Gregory, 41, tied up, raped and slashed 43-year-old 
Jonathan Lee Gentry Convicted in 1991 of bludgeoning 
This undated photo provided by the Washington Dept. of Corrections shows Dwayne Woods, one of nine inmates currently on death row in Washington state. Woods was convicted for 
