
More than two dozen missing children have been found in Texas after a nearly three-week operation. Ten agencies including the San Antonio Police, Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, and the New Braunfels Police Department teamed up with the U.S. Marshals Western District of Texas (USMWDT) to make Operation Lightning Bug happen. Local and federal agencies worked together to bring home missing children listed in a local database called the Texas Crime Information Center. Deputies worked from July 28 to Aug. 15 to rescue six sex trafficking victims and more than 30 missing minors. They made at least three arrests along the way. Marshal Jose Nunez with the USMWDT is calling the operation a success. “This was the first time we worked together with our state and local partners with an operation like this,” which resulted in locating missing children and disrupting any type of trafficking networks, he said.
