I guess this is going to be Somali news round-up Saturday. I just told you about Somali kids not being vaccinated in Minneapolis and this is news from Nashville updating that huge Somali sex trafficking case we first reported here.
Two have been dropped from the case not because they have been exonerated, but because they can’t be found. One is believed to have skipped the country.
From the City Paper in Nashville:
The government has dropped the names of two defendants from a case of alleged juvenile sex trafficking so that the case may move forward.
U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. signed an order Friday severing Abdikarim Osman Ali and Abdigadir Ahmed Khalif from the list of 29 individuals indicted last fall on a variety of charges including juvenile sex trafficking, credit card fraud and obstruction of justice involving members and associates of three Somali gangs.
Last November, law enforcement officials arrested two dozen suspects allegedly involved in the sex trafficking ring with connections between Nashville and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Filed by Assistant U.S Attorney Van Vincent, the order granting a motion states that Ali and Khalif were removed from the indictment “to avoid necessary delay as these defendants have not been apprehended.”