Two men have pleaded “not guilty” to charges filed after being caught up in the latest Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force sting.
Forty-three-year-old Michael Petty of Akron was arrested Wednesday about a block from the Salem Police Department where undercover agents says he had arranged to a meeting to pay $80 for sex.
That same day on Bacon Avenue in East Palestine, 36-year-old Brian Pence of Berlin Center was arrested with the $200 that he allegedly was going to spend on a sex act arranged through a website that the task force says is known for prostitution…