State Attorney General Pam Bondi held a news conference Wednesday Tallahassee.
She said the sting involved at least six victims, all women, who had been illegally smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico and Central America.
According to state officials, the victims were tricked with the promise of being reunited with other family members already in the U.S., but, they were forced into sex slavery.
"These suspects are part of a loose network of individuals who worked separately to find individual victims. The captors know each other and routinely communicated," said Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen.
Swearingen said two more culprits remain at large. Their last known location was rural Lee and Hendry counties.
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