on july 6, 2019, epstein was arrested at teterboro airport in new jersey because he was doing sex trafficking. according to witnesses and sources, it is believed that the fbi broke into epstein's manhattan townhouse, the herbert n. straus house, to investigate epstein's criminal behavior further. two days later, the public corruption unit of the southern district of new york charged epstein for attempted sex trafficking of minors. court documents show that epstein was attempting to bring at least 40 underaged girls to his mansion to sexually abuse them.