A central Iowa nurse has pleaded guilty to operating a sex-trafficking scheme for nearly two decades just 10 days before he was scheduled to go to federal trial. Federal court documents reveal ...

AMES, Iowa (KCRG) - A former Ames nurse is facing 15 counts of sex trafficking after officials say he lied to 14 victims to get them to engage in commercial sex acts over a period of nearly 20 years.

Federal court documents reveal that Carl Markley, 45, of Ames, who previously worked as a nurse in Ames and Ankeny, “targeted over 100 teenage boys and young men” across a 19-year span from “at least” ...