COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKBN) - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost revealed the results of a week-long human trafficking crackdown.

The six-day operation, called "Operation Next Door," took place last week. It ended with the arrests of 135 people seeking to buy sex -- including from minors.

There were nine search warrants on massage parlors, and 67 survivors were offered help.

Arrests included a Greek Orthodox priest from Cleveland and a school janitor from Columbus.

The local task force made 19 arrests in Mahoning, Columbiana and Portage counties.

"Operation Next Door happens everywhere. Human trafficking is everywhere," AG Yost said. "It's not a city, country kind of thing. It's not a poor, rich kind of thing. It's not an ethnic kind of thing. It's your neighbors, it's your co-workers, it's th

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