A Grimsby, Ont., man faces multiple human trafficking-related charges following a two-month-long investigation, police say.
Halton Regional Police Service said Wednesday they arrested the 45-year-old man and charged him with two counts each of human trafficking, advertise sexual services, assault, receive material benefit from human trafficking and receive material benefit from sexual services.
He was also charged for possessing fentanyl and cocaine, possession of property obtain by a crime over $5,000 and four counts of procuring, police said.
Under the criminal code, procuring means to recruit, hold, conceal or harbour a person who provides sexual services.
Police said two women were identified as having been trafficked by the accused "throughout Ontario during various periods in 202