PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a ...

Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in Phoenix for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads. A prosecutor has ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Now that Backpage.com is gone, law enforcement is trying to find out where sex traffickers will migrate next. The executives of Backpage, a popular website to buy and sell sex, have ...

Phoenix New Times co-founder Michael Lacey walks into the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona, on Aug. 29, 2023. (Joe Duhownik/Courthouse News) PHOENIX (CN) — Two months after ...

Cowering inside a fleabag motel room as a gang of sex traffickers cursed in her face, Courtney Baldwin had never felt so worthless or broken. The teenager tried in vain to block out the voices of the ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in Phoenix for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads. A ...

In a surprise twist, Backpage co-founders have scored a temporary victory in a federal prostitution and money laundering case that’s been ongoing since 2018. The Associated Press reports that the ...