OMAHA, Neb. —

Four of the suspects in a sex trafficking investigation appeared in court Friday.

The Omaha Police Department, along with multiple local and federal law enforcement agencies, arrested 39-year-old Amy Hicks, 62-year-old Thomas Falcon, 54-year-old Douglas Johnson, 52-year-old Scott Nelson and 56-year-old Steven Harper.

Hicks is charged with income tax evasion, possession of child pornography, pandering, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, distribution of child sexual abuse material, and keeping a place of prostitution.

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Prosecutors called her the "lynchpin" connecting all the codefendants together. Between 2022 and 2024, she allegedly contacted dozens of people on commercial sex apps and recruited them, including an 18-year-old victim, and claimed she m

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