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• Sioux Falls Police Chief Doug Barthel said authorities are also looking to arrest people seeking out sex with underage girls. He said they often try to hide behind a computer using online sites such as Craigslist and Backpage.com to commit their crimes.
• "Our goal is to eliminate the demand for that business," Barthel said.
• South Dakota in 2013 received the lowest score in annual state ratings from the Polaris Project, which tracks the presence or absence of 10 categories of state statutes believed to be critical to a comprehensive anti-trafficking legal framework. Federal, state and local officials have been addressing the problem in recent years.
• South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said the 2014 state Legislature passed two laws to help combat sex trafficking.
• One law establishes a procedure to forfeit personal property in child pornography, human trafficking, child solicitation or exploitation cases, and to direct money toward preventive efforts and victims. Another will allow human trafficking victims to file lawsuits against a perpetrator.
• "South Dakota is off limits for human trafficking and crimes against children," Jackley said.
• A co-conspirator in the Alaboudi case, Emmanuel Nyuon, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in July, though Nyuon has appealed. Prosecutors say that Nyuon and Alaboudi were in business together.
• South Dakota has seen several other high-profile sex trafficking cases, and local, state and federal law enforcement officers are working hard to combat the nationwide problem, Johnson said.
• "We still in South Dakota have people looking to profit off of the sex trade," Johnson said.
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• STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- A 54-year-old man who'd fled a South Dakota prison facility more than a year ago has been found in northwest Iowa.
• Police in Storm Lake say David Lee, originally from Minneapolis, was captured Friday. Officers had been tipped to watch for a vehicle listed as stolen from a dealership in Hermantown, Minn. It was found parked near a Storm Lake apartment building. Police say Lee fled when he realized officers were in the area, looking for him. He was found hiding under a mattress in a garage nearby.
• He remains in Storm Lake custody, pending extradition to South Dakota.
• Police say Lee walked away from a community transition program at the Yankton

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