Four men from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana are facing felony charges after an undercover human trafficking operation in Greensburg, Indiana, late last week, according to reporting that identified the four men and described charges of child solicitation and promoting human trafficking. Investigators say the sting was built around identifying people pursuing illegal sexual activity involving minors, and it ended with arrests reaching well beyond Decatur County's borders.
The four men named by the Decatur County Jail are Charles Moore, 43, of Cincinnati; Corey Dunaway, 40, of Rising Sun, Indiana; Dominic Roberts, 26, of Paris, Kentucky; and Brandon Mullins, 40, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, as reported by WKRC. Each man was charged with promoting human trafficking, a Level 3 felony, and child solicitation, a Level 4 felony. The undercover operation itself took place in southeastern Indiana and drew in suspects from as far as Cincinnati and central Kentucky.
How Local Police Built the Case
The operation was carried out by Greensburg Police Department investigators working alongside the Decatur County Sheriff's Department, conducting undercover work and other investigative steps before the arrests came together. Per the Greensburg Police Department's own account, the field work followed multi-agency training focused on different types of human trafficking, a session that let officers move directly from classroom instruction into active casework, according to The 812. The Decatur County Prosecutor's Office was also involved in the operation, rounding out the three-agency effort.
Greensburg police and Decatur County deputies worked together on the operation, which involved coordinated investigative work before the arrests. Their collaboration formed part of the three-agency effort described in the account.
What the Charges Actually Carry
The Level 3 felony promoting human trafficking charge against all four men carries a statutory prison range of 3 to 16 years under Indiana law, with an advisory sentence of 9 years, while the Level 4 felony child solicitation charge carries 2 to 12 years with an advisory sentence of 6 years; both charges can also bring fines up to $10,000, according to the Law Office of Jerry L. Garner. Indiana Code § 35-42-4-6 provides one route to Level 4 treatment when an adult uses a computer network to solicit someone believed to be a minor and then travels to meet that person, per WomensLaw.org. The source also identifies a previous unrelated conviction as an alternative route to Level 4 treatment.
Indiana's Senate Enrolled Act 155 also shapes how these cases proceed once charges are filed. The law explicitly bars victim consent as a defense against human trafficking prosecution and requires law enforcement agencies to report all human trafficking investigations to the Indiana Attorney General within 30 days, according to Indiana Senate Republicans. The legislation was aimed at equalizing statutory penalties for purchasers and sellers of trafficking victims alike.
Part of a Broader Statewide Pattern
The Greensburg case fits a pattern seen elsewhere in Indiana this year. In July, a multi-agency operation in Howard County similarly used undercover online personas posing as minors, with one documented suspect traveling approximately 104 miles to meet them and suspects facing Level 4 felony child solicitation charges, as Hoodline reported in its Howard County sting coverage. The operations described here combine local police, sheriff's units, and other agencies for this kind of investigation.
Statewide numbers give a sense of scale. Cumulative data from Polaris and the National Human Trafficking Hotline shows 4,077 calls originating in Indiana resulted in 1,235 identified human trafficking cases involving 2,698 victims, according to the Indiana Youth Services Association, though advocates caution that hotline figures capture only reported incidents rather than the full scope of the problem. A separate report from the Indiana Attorney General's Office and the Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking also examined trafficking in the state, per WTHR.
Federal court data analyzed by the Human Trafficking Institute and legal analysis cited by The Indiana Lawyer offer additional context on trafficking prosecutions and victim demographics. All four men arrested in the Greensburg operation face charges that remain allegations at this stage, pending court proceedings.
