Hunter
01/30/20
A Hills man has been found guilty on child sex trafficking and other charges.
CBS2 reports that 52-year old Kendall Streb received the verdict Wednesday in Cedar Rapids and will be sentenced at a later date.
Streb was one of five men taken into federal custody in May after a joint investigation by the Iowa City Police, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Coralville Police and the FBI.
At the time of their arrest, the Press-Citizen reported that the subjects were accused of trafficking between 1-3 victims under the age of 18, three of them allegedly distributed drugs to the minors, and some of them used force, fraud and coercion to make the victims perform sex work.
During the trial, evidence against Streb alleged that he trafficked three teenagers aged 15 to 17 years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Coralville between November 2018 and February 2019. Streb was accused of paying them in cash and methamphetamine in exchange for sex acts.
