june a 13-year-old runaway from minneapolis was rescued and her traffickers were arrested in fargo morehead. police believe that the traffickers were more than likely on their way out to our oil patch with the victim, and they stopped over in fargo morehead to make a little cash by selling these children in the area. this is a story we hear over and over again the vulnerability of children, the trafficking of children into the oil patch in western north dakota. in fact, talking to the experts who track advertising of young children whether it is in the deep or dark net or whether it is in things like back pages what they will tell you is the spike up in trafficking and ads in western north dakota alarms them and should alarm us. this is not a big city problem. we know this is a problem that affects north dakota. if traffickers are willing to snatch runaways in the big cities and bring them out to north dakota you know they are trying to prey on this vulnerable population in north dakota as well. this is personal for me. i know a lot about this topic because my sister works in this area and