EAST POINT, Ga. — A welfare check on Thanksgiving at a gas station in East Point led police to uncover an alleged multi-county human trafficking operation involving several metro Atlanta hotels.

Marlandow Jeffries, 45, and Lashandra Walker, 47, are both charged with trafficking a person for sexual servitude.

According to their arrest warrant, East Point Police officers were called to the Chevron gas station on Virginia Avenue on Nov. 27, where a woman was found hiding in a locked bathroom, yelling that she needed help.

Police said she told officers she had been trafficked for weeks across the metro area and asked to retrieve her belongings from a nearby hotel room.

Officers traced her back to the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson on Hardin Avenue, where staff confirmed the room she had

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