A 14-year-old girl from Michigan, who was reportedly kidnapped, taken to multiple cities and forced to work as a prostitute in California, alerted a crisis line and ultimately helped bring down a human trafficking operation, The San Jose Mercury News reported.

According to newspaper, the teen was reported as a missing runaway from Flint on Sept. 1, 2018, but was kidnapped in Chicago.

Sgt. Enrique Garcia of the San Jose Police Department told The Mercury News the teen wound up in California, where she was held against her will and forced to work as a prostitute, she contacted the Crisis Text Line.

After the teen's report, according to The Mercury News, officers responded to her location at a Motel 6, where they arrested three suspects and rescued two other women from California, one 20 and the other 23.

Christopher Lyon Johnson, 39, of Sacramento; Antoine Williams, 43, of Merrillville, Ind.; and Curtis Lee Russell, 59, of Natomas, Calif. were arrested, Garcia said.

Johnson, Williams and Russell are all being held in jail without bail, and face multiple felony charges.

Garcia told the newspaper that what the girl did was "courageous," and anyone with information related to this case can contact Detective Gurbaksh Sohal or Detective Sgt. Tony Ruelas at 408-277-4102, or email stopslavery@sanjoseca.gov. Anonymous tipsters can also contact the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-STOP (7867) or svcrimestoppers.org.

The Crisis Text Line is a free and confidential text message service that can connect people with trained crisis counselors 24/7, and can be reached by texting the word "HOME" to 741741 in the U.S. — in Canada, text "HOME" to 686868.

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