Pentagon official arrested in office overseeing elementary schools for human trafficking

Stephen Francis Hovanic, a senior administrator for the Pentagon’s school system in the Americas region, was arrested Nov. 15 in a human trafficking sting in Coweta County, Georgia, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Hovanic, 64, of Sharpsburg, Georgia, was arrested on suspicion of pandering, according to a news release the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office provided to the DCNF. Sheriff’s Office Administrator Eva Tedder said Hovanic told jail staff that he works for the Department of Defense (DOD) located in Peachtree City, Georgia, where the Department of Defense’s Americas Division is located. the Defense Education Activity (DODEA). seconds on the agency’s website.

A reservation photo of Hovanic, which the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office shared with the DCNF, shows a man who closely resembles the man of DODEA Americas Chief of Staff Stephen Hovanic. biography on the agency’s website. Photos of both men show a distinctive scar on their chin.

The bio also states that Hovanic lives in Sharpsburg, Georgia.

Hovanic was one of more than two dozen arrests during a two-day operation to track down victims of human trafficking, the Newnan Times-Herald reported. Six women, identified as victims of human trafficking, were rescued in the operation, which included arrests accused of crime, drug possession, prostitution and pimping, according to the statement.

DODEA Americas and Hovanic did not respond to calls and emailed requests for comment.

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