Mike Beaver (FBI agent)

Mike Beaver is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and the coordinator of Oklahoma City's FBI Crimes Against Children.

Career

In 2006, Beaver was speaking AbOUT the prostitution of children in the United States and said that "the girls are absolutely brainwashed. This is a business. It's not Pretty Woman." Two years later, he said, "What we've learned is if you have adult prostitution in an area, there's probably child prostitution occurring as well." He headed Operation Stormy Nights, an early major anti-human-trafficking operation by the FBI. During this sting operation, he worked as an undercover agent. One of the human trafficking victims rescued in Stormy Nights was a girl named Angie, who was being prostituted to truck drivers at truck stops. Beaver called Angie "a normal, typical American teenager." At a hearing related to Stormy Nights, Beaver testified about Bobby Prince Jr. and Bobby Prince Sr., two of the accused. Beaver said that Bobby Prince Jr. had threatened the girls with a gun and that Bobby Prince Sr. had choked a girl who tried to escape. Beaver was involved in Operation Precious Cargo, a major investigation into the prostitution of children in Pennsylvania. Beaver was interviewed about human trafficking in the documentary film Not My Life, in which he says, "It's not just truck drivers. We're seeing them purchased and abused by both white collar and blue collar individuals." While Robert Bilheimer interviewed Beaver for the film at a Midwestern truck stop like the ones at which Angie was trafficked, someone wrote "[...] you, [...]!" in the dirt on Beaver's car. Bilheimer said that this act demonstrated that many truck drivers hate law enforcement, although he said that "there are some good truckers out there." Beaver said that "pimps do actively recruit the young [because] the young child, sadly, brings more money, and the pimps know that." Beaver investigated the brutal beating of Larry Floyd at Mississippi State Penitentiary and the robbery of the Arvest Bank in Wagoner, Oklahoma in 2008.