Middle Tenn. Targeted by ‘Multinational Criminal Organization’
By JOSH MITCHELL
Editor
River Mississippi News
TENNESSEE — A Tennessee investigation into alleged “trafficking of Hispanic female immigrants in Nashville for commercial sex” recently led to the arrest of a second suspect, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
It is part of “an ongoing joint investigation into a multinational criminal organization linked to human trafficking in Middle Tennessee,” a TBI news release says.
TBI special agents arrested of Yilibeth Rivero De Caldera on human trafficking charges in the fall of 2023.
A second arrest was made last week in the case, which involves the commercial sex trafficking of Hispanic females in Nashville, agents charge.
Kleiver Daniel Moto Rivero, a member of the Venezuelan-tied Tren de Aragua criminal organization, was arrested a week ago in Nashville by agents from TBI and other agencies, which are listed below.
Moto Rivero, 35, was booked into the Davidson County Jail on two counts of Trafficking for a Commercial Sex Act and one count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.
His bond was set at $375,000.
Other agencies that helped with the investigation were the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, Metro Nashville Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service.
