Woman charged with sex trafficking
A Russian woman faces federal charges of sexual trafficking for
allegedly forcing her 18-year-old niece to work as a prostitute in
California and Nevada.
Alena Okhotina, 35, had just finished serving more than two
years in prison on state pandering charges involving her niece when
she was taken into custody Friday by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Okhotina paid $6,000 to obtain a fraudulent visa for her niece then
forced her to have sex with men in February 2003 in Las Vegas and
Los Angeles, investigators said.
World was Google-less for 15 minutes
MOUNTAIN VIEW “”mdash; Googling stopped for 15 minutes on
Saturday.
The world’s leading Internet search engine shut down from
6:45 to 7 p.m. eastern time, according to Google spokesman David
Krane.
“˜”˜It was not a hacking or a security
issue,” Krane said. He said the problem was related to
the DNS, or Domain Name System, though Krane did not elaborate. The
DNS translates domain names for computers.
Compiled from Bruin wire services.