A former Minnesota prosecutor has just been arrested for allegedly helping to run a sex trafficking operation.
Andrea Sampson, ex-assistant attorney in Anoka County, is facing dozens of felony counts related to promoting prostitution and receiving profits from prostitution.
At least 13 victims have been identified, so far.
Fox 9 reported:
Andrea Sampson is charged with 26 felony counts, including promoting prostitution and receiving profits from prostitution. Investigators allege she helped facilitate the operation by providing locations for commercial sex transactions and creating shell companies to hide or funnel profits.
The criminal complaint details that the operation spanned Minneapolis, Bloomington, Eden Prairie and St. Louis Park. According to court documents, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has been investigating the case since 2021.
ADVERTISEMENTThe documents allege that 13 women, all 18 or older, were victimized by Sampson and three others for at least five years. Investigators say women were recruited, advertised online and scheduled for commercial sex. Some women told investigators they were sexually assaulted, provided alcohol and drugs, and that cameras were used at some locations.
Take a look at Sampson’s mugshot here:
🚨🇺🇸 WTH is actually going on?? A goddamn prosecutor was setting up shell companies, handing over apartments, and pocketing cash from a sex trafficking ring.
These beasts were allegedly beating, raping, and threatening women for YEARS!
The people meant to protect you were… pic.twitter.com/bQnbM4TKyu
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 16, 2026
WTH is actually going on?? A goddamn prosecutor was setting up shell companies, handing over apartments, and pocketing cash from a sex trafficking ring.
These beasts were allegedly beating, raping, and threatening women for YEARS!
The people meant to protect you were running the operation.
The topsy-turvy world of Minnesota, on full display.
Along with Sampson, three other individuals have been charged as part of the investigation.
Authorities believe that Sampson and the two other women involved in the sex trafficking ring were in a romantic relationship with 57-year-old Frank Reeves, the alleged ringleader of the operation.
CBS News has more details:
The criminal complaint said law enforcement agencies, including the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, started investigating the operation in 2021. Officials found that a 57-year-old man had been operating the organization with assistance from Sampson, a 30-year-old woman and a 36-year-old woman.
Law enforcement learned through their investigation that the man and the 30-year-old woman were “actively involved in recruiting and posting commercial sex advertisements for numerous women,” set rates for appointments for “commercial sex transactions” and collected and received profits from the transactions, according to the court document.
The 36-year-old woman owned and operated the website Minnesota Erotica Personals, on which women have been “posted” for commercial sex transactions, the complaint said. She, along with the 30-year-old woman and the man, collected money from the victims posted on the website.
Sampson helped create and maintain corporations that appeared to be shell companies used to hide and/or funnel profits from the organization, according to the court document. Proceeds from the organization were allegedly collected and deposited into accounts before they were moved into bank accounts, including those of the corporations Sampson created.
Per the complaint, at least two Minneapolis properties owned by Sampson were sites where photographs of victims were taken for the advertisements and where transactions happened.
The court document, citing phone records, journal entries and other information gathered in the probe, said Sampson and the other two women appeared to believe they were in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with the man.
What in the world is going on in Minnesota?
Throw the book at them!
What are your thoughts?
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