FROM: Provincial Human Trafficking Intelligence-led Joint Forces Strategy                                    

Victims Identified, Investigation Remains Ongoing 

(ORILLIA, ON) - A Windsor resident has been arrested and charged following a human trafficking investigation.

In May 2025, police received information about a victim being trafficked through online advertisements. Under the Provincial Human Trafficking Intelligence-led Joint Forces Strategy (IJFS), the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Anti-Human Trafficking Unit began an investigation and identified an additional victim.

As a result of the investigation, on Wednesday July 16, 2025, IJFS members from the OPP, and members of the London Police Service’s Tactical Support Services, Hamilton Police Service, Kingston Police, Ottawa Police Service, Peel Regional Police, and Toronto Police Service arrested and charged Jarett PHILLIPS, 30 years old of Windsor, with the following Criminal Code offences:

• Communicate with anyone for the purpose of obtaining sexual services, section 286.1(1)
• Procuring (recruit, hold, conceal, or harbour or exercise control, direction or influence), section 286.3(1) - three counts

The accused remains in custody and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa on Monday, July 21, 2025.

-30- ABOUT THE IJFS

On March 6, 2020, the Government of Ontario announced funding to establish the IJFS, consisting of full-time investigators and analysts who are assigned to participating police agencies across Ontario, including municipal and First Nations, along with additional resources to the OPP. The IJFS assists in identifying, investigating and disrupting multi-jurisdictional human trafficking organizations operating within Ontario.

Current participating IJFS police agencies include:

• Anishinabek Police Services
• Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service
• Barrie Police Service
• Durham Regional Police Service
• Greater Sudbury Police Service
• Halton Regional Police Service
• Hamilton Police Service
• Kingston Police
• London Police Service
• Niagara Regional Police Service
• North Bay Police Service
• Ontario Provincial Police
• Ottawa Police Service
• Peel Regional Police Service
• Peterborough Police Service
• Sault. Ste. Marie Police Service
• Thunder Bay Police Service
• Treaty Three Police Service
• Toronto Police Service
• Windsor Police Service
• York Regional Police