Backpage.com's CEO has been arrested for sex trafficking

The chief executive officer of Backpage.com, a portal for adult classified ads, was arrested yesterday on charges of pimping, pimping a minor under 16 years of age, and conspiracy to commit pimping, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.
CEO Carl Ferrer was arrested in Houston, Texas, after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam. He was arrested on a California warrant, after a three-year investigation there determined that many of Backpage's adult ads included victims of s