Police charge 2 men in 20s after reports woman trafficked in Mississauga, Ont. hotel

Police have arrested two people after a woman was allegedly trafficked at a Mississauga, Ont., hotel.

Peel Regional Police said a complaint that a woman was being forced to take part in sex work at a hotel in Mississauga was investigated on Monday.

Through their investigation, officers concluded someone was “exercising control” over the woman’s life, and profiting from it.

The next day, during a search warrant, police said they found a handgun in a room at the hotel. Two men in their early 20s were arrested and charged.

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Michael Wilson, 21 from Mississauga, was charged with the exercising control and four firearms offences. Twenty-four-year-old Kejwuan Hawley-Milton, 24, also faces four firearm charges.

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