Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors - Women's Funding Network

Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors – State-by-state cases reported by media
Last updated: July 22, 2011
About the State-by-State Resource Guide
As we work together to stop the domestic sex trafficking of young girls, Women’s Funding Network is
keeping an active list of cases that have been reported in the media. The resource will be updated on a
monthly basis. If there are any cases in your state not on this list, please contact Jaclyn Miller at
jmiller@womensfundingnetwork.org. Thus far, cases have been identified in 44 states and the District of
Columbia.
But this only represents cases reported in the media – and as many as 300,000 American children –
particularly girls – are at risk of being commercially sexually exploited each year in our neighborhoods,
through escort services and online.
*An asterisk after the location of the case denotes ads were posted on Craigslist and/or the Village Voice
Media-owned Backpage.com. Seventy six of the 274 cases – over 25 percent – involved placing
ads on Craigslist or Backpage.
A Call-To-Action Resource
As you talk to your elected officials and to media, you can utilize these cases to illustrate the tragedy of
domestic sex trafficking – and issue a call to action. This is not just an international problem – it’s
happening in our own backyard.
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Alabama
• March 31, 2011- Homewood
— Reported on April 1, 2011, by Melynda Sides of WBRC Fox 6
— Homewood police arrested Amber Abrams, 30, and her mother Alesha Abrams, 51, both
charged with two counts of sodomy and one count each of sexual abuse of a child under 12,
human trafficking, promoting prostitution and facilitating travel of a child for an unlawful
sexual act.
— Cleveland Andre Jointer, 36, was arrested April 1 and charged with two counts of sodomy,
sexual abuse of a child under 12, human trafficking and traveling to meet a child for an
unlawful sex act.
• December 7, 2010- Phenix City
— Reported on December 7, 2010, by Alan Riquelmy of Ledger-Enquirer.com
— An investigation into a runaway 15-year-old girl has led Phenix City police to charge two men
with rape and sodomy and the girl with two counts of prostitution
— Eric Duran Crowell, 26, faces two counts each of second-degree rape and second-degree
sodomy. Marcus Rashard Cumberlander, 28, faces one count each of second-degree rape
and second-degree sodomy, though he also faces a count of contributing to the delinquency
of a child, police said.
— The investigation is ongoing and there is a good possibility there may be more arrests
• September 22, 2010 – Florence
- Reported September 23, 2010 by Tom Smith of the Times Daily
- Manuel Enrique Zelaya-Rodriguez, 31, was found guilty of trafficking an underage girl for sex
and coercing a minor to engage in prostitution.
- He also was convicted of harboring an illegal alien and for failing to file a report with U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement about an illegal alien in his employment.
- He is accused of arranging sexual encounters for money between men living in the region
and the 15-year-old girl, who was brought to the country without proper immigration
document.
- Federal agents said he harbored the girl in Florence and forced her to engage in commercial
sex acts.
- Officials in the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Zelaya-Rodriguez faces a minimum 10-year prison
sentence and a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Alaska
• December 19, 2009 – Anchorage*
— Reported by the Associated Press and published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
— Three were arrested, Sidney Greene, Rand Hooks and Sabil Mumin Mujahid, and a fourth is
wanted, Keyana Marshall, for running a prostitution ring with 17 women and three girls
according to the federal indictment.
— Victims were solicited through ads posted on Craigslist.
Arizona
• June 14, 2011- Glendale*
— Reported on June 15, 2011, by Cale Ottens of AZCentral.com
— Whitney Williams, 22, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of acting as a pimp for a woman
and a 17-year old girl
— Police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a girl,
who appeared to be underage, was posting ads on the backpage.com website.
— Williams was arrested on suspicion of two counts of inducing prostitution, one count of child
prostitution and one count for receiving earnings of prostitution
• June 21, 2011- San Tan Valley*
— Reported on June 21, 2011, by Caitlin McGlade of The Arizona Republic
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— Chad Walker, 26, was booked into the Pinal County Adult Detention Center on counts of
causing a minor to engage in child prostitution and aggravated assault, according to the
sheriff's office news release.
— Walker was also indicted on those counts by a grand jury on June 15. He's being held on a
$250,000 cash bail.
— Previously reported on June 15, 2011 by AZFamily.com: On June 6, the 15 year old
victim called 911 to report to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office that she has been beaten up by
her "pimp." On Tuesday, Walker was booked into the Pinal County Adult Detention Center on
one count each of aggravated assault and causing a minor to engage in child prostitution.
The victim told deputies that Walker arranges clients through the "Escort Services" section of
Backpage.com.
• April 19, 2011- Phoenix
— Reported on April 19, 2011, by The Associated Press printed in NECN.com
— Juan Lara Jr. was sentenced Tuesday for his guilty pleas to attempted child prostitution
charges.
— Avondale police arrested Lara last April after police said he tattooed two 16-year-old girls,
one in exchange for sex.
— The 38-year-old Lara originally faced charges of sexual conduct with a minor, child
prostitution, attempted child prostitution and unlawful tattooing.
— Previously reported August 12, 2010 by The Arizona Republic: Juan Lara Jr., 38, faces
one count of sexual conduct with a minor, two counts each of child prostitution and attempted
child prostitution and seven counts of unlawful tattooing, records state.
• April 25, 2011- Phoenix
— Reported on April 22, 2011, by Alicia Wallace of The Daily Camera.
— The former CEO of Sunflower Farmers Market is scheduled to go on trial Aug. 9 in Arizona
on a charge of child prostitution.
— Fifty-two-year-old Michael Gilliland of Longmont, Colo., has pleaded not guilty to knowingly
offering to pay for sex with someone he believed to be a 17-year-old girl.
— Previously reported on March 3, 2011, by MyFoxPhoenix.com: Michael Gilliland, the
founder of two popular grocery store chains pleads not guilty to charges of soliciting sex with
an underage girl. Detectives say the 52-year-old offered to pay an undercover officer posing
as a 17-year-old girl $100 for sex.
— First reported February 10, 2011 on CNN and KNXV ABC 15
• February 24, 2011- Tucson
— Reported on February 24, 2011, by Jamar Younger of Arizona Daily News
— A 27-year-old man has been arrested after he was accused of seeking to have sex with
children, police said.
— Jeffrey Allen Albert is facing one count of molestation of a child (conspiracy to commit) and
one count of luring a minor for sexual exploitation, according to the Tucson Police
Department.
— Detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children unit began investigating Albert after
they received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding an
ad placed on the Internet.
— The ad was soliciting other men to bring their children to Albert to have sex with him.
• September 9, 2010 – Phoenix*
- Reported September 9, 2010 by Michelle Parks of ABC 15
- Four men now face federal charges for their involvement in a sex-trafficking operation in
Phoenix and an alleged role in what lead to the murder of an 18-year-old girl.
- The U.S. Attorneys Office unsealed the five-count indictment Thursday which named 31-
year-old George Windley from Nevada, 39-year old Jacob Heckstall and Muttaqui Windley,
28, of Phoenix, and Michael Lazar, 42, from Scottsdale.
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- All four now face charges of Conspiring to Commit Sex Trafficking Through Force, Fraud or
Coercion, Sex Trafficking of a Minor, and two counts of Sex Trafficking Through Force, Fraud
or Coercion.
- The men allegedly ran the sex trafficking business from September 2008 to October 2009,
exchanging sexual services of young females for money and advertised these services on
internet Web sites including Craigslist and Backpage.com.
- On July 28, 2009 the 18-year-old in a sex trafficking operation was murdered after Windley,
acting as her “pimp”, reportedly drove her and another woman to Scottsdale for a prostitution
related “call out.”
• August 18, 2010 – Tucson
— Reported August 19, 2010 by Kim Smith of the Arizona Daily Star
— The sentencing hearing for a woman accused of training a 14-year-old girl how to be a
prostitute was postponed Wednesday after a problem arose.
— Maricela Ann Muñoz was indicted in June on a charge of child prostitution of a minor under
15, a charge that carries a prison sentence of between 13 and 27 years.
— She pleaded guilty to attempted child prostitution of a minor under 15 as part of a plea
agreement that stated she could get probation or somewhere between five and 15 years in
prison.
• June 24, 2010 - Gilbert
— Reported June 25, 2010, by James King of the Phoenix New Times.
— William Flanagan, 41, allegedly bribed a 16-year-old girl with gifts for sex several times over a
two-year period.
— Faces charges of Sexual Conduct with a Minor, Child Molestation and Child Prostitution.
Arkansas
• August 16, 2010 – Little Rock
— Reported August 16, 2010 by KATV
— Little Rock police busted an alleged illegal strip club and arrest a 15-year-old girl who was
working as a stripper and prostitute.
— Brenda Porter, 53, and her daughter Yolanda Young, 34, were arrested along with three
others.
— Porter and Young ran the place and hired the strippers, according to police.
— Police said the 15-year-old girl is charged with prostitution and is now in the Juvenile system.
The owners, Porter and Young face a slew of charges including endangering the welfare of a
minor and promoting a child in a sexual performance.
• June 30, 2010 –Sebastian County
— Reported July 1, 2010, by Jeff Arnold of The Times Record
— Joy Leann Trotter, 40, was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison for promoting child prostitution.
— Trotter would charge men $100 to have sex with teenage girls.
California
• July 7, 2011- Sacramento
— Reported on July 8, 2011, by Sheila V Kumar of Associated Press
— 50-year-old Paul "Yoshi" Moore has pleaded guilty to three counts of sex-trafficking of
underage girls, while two co-defendants face charges for posting photographs of the girls
online as a way to attract customers, the U.S. attorney's office said Friday.
— Moore's co-defendants, Kevin Hawkins and Timothy Lee, are charged with taking
photographs of three different minor girls and posting them on the Internet as advertisements
for prostitution.
— The arrests were the result of an investigation by the FBI's Innocence Lost Task Force, which
targets child prostitution.
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• June 2, 2011- Sacramento
— Reported on June 2, 2011, by Matt Kawahara of Sacramento Bee
— Deanijiniqe Cail, 23, Christian Demitris Dotson, 20, and Veraniquie Wallace, 40, have
pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging them with sex trafficking of a minor
— Dotson approached a 14-year-old acquaintance in June 2010 and asked her to be a
prostitute. He took sexually explicit photographs of the girl, which Cail and Wallace posted
online, advertising her for prostitution.
— Cail and Dotson are scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller on
Aug. 25, while Wallace is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 1.
• April 19, 2011- San Diego*
— Reported on April 19, 2011, by Michelle Wayland and Lindsay Hood of NBC San Diego
— Fifteen defendants pleaded not guilty Tuesday to racketeering for a prostitution ring that was
based in North County and spread across the country, according to the U.S. Attorney's
Office.
— The arrests are a result of an 18 month-long multi-agency investigation called "Operation
Vice Grip," Duffy said.
— Previously reported on April 18, 2011, by Reuters and 10News.com: Three dozen Crips
street gang members and two motel owners have been indicted for running a prostitution ring
that targeted underage girls through social networking sites including MySpace, Craigslist,
Twitter and Facebook, prosecutors said on Monday. 60-year-old Oceanside Travelodge
owner Vinod N. Patel and his 27-year-old son Hitesh Vinod Patel and 36 others were
charged. If convicted they face up to 20 years in prison and fines of $250,000. U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 30 girls and women were "rescued" as a result
of the operation. They are described as ranging in age from 13 to young adults.
• March 17, 2011- San Francisco
— Reported on March 17, 2011, by Bob Egelko of SFGate
— Juan Doss will probably spend the rest of his life in prison for transporting two teenage girls
across state lines to work as prostitutes in Oakland, San Francisco, Reno and other cities.
— Doss, of Reno, was convicted in 2006 of sex trafficking, transporting minors into prostitution
and two counts of witness-tampering.
— Doss and his wife conspired in 2005 to recruit the two girls, ages 14 and 16, and set them up
as prostitutes in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Reno. Doss was sentenced to life because of
a previous conviction in Nevada for pandering.
• February 28, Sacramento
— Reported on February 28, 2011, by Cathy Locke of The Sacramento Bee
— A Sacramento man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for trafficking in underage girls.
— Deandre Lornell Brown, 27, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr.,
after being convicted at trial in September of sex trafficking of children. The prison term is to
be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and Brown was ordered to pay $5,200 in
restitution
— Brown posted advertisements for the girls' services on prostitution websites, monitored and
supervised their activities, and collected the money that they earned from prostitution. He
also violently enforced his pimping rules to maintain control of the girls.
• January 23, 2011
— Reported on January 23, 2011, by Mickey Goodman of Huffington Post
— Huffington Post article about sex trafficking in the United States and its unseen victims:
children.
— Goodman tells the story of Julie, a 15 year old who was trafficked from California to
Washington D.C. and back to California again.
— Julie was picked up by a detective who worked closely with Lois Lee, Ph.D., the founder of
Children of the Night in Van Nuys, Calif., whose life work is rescuing teen prostitutes.
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— Children of the Night has been in the fight longer than any other American organization.
Others have followed, but more are needed to join forces and battle this crime against
children.
• January 4, 2011- Los Angeles
— Reported on January 4, 2011, by Los Angeles Times.
— Editorial about how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger granted commutation to a young woman
who has fought to turn her life around from its almost unbelievably bad beginning.
— Sara Kruzan had been abused physically and sexually for most of her young life before she
was gang raped, then pushed into a life of prostitution at age 13 by the neighborhood pimp.
When she was 16, she robbed and killed the man, a crime for which she was sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
— Schwarzenegger's decision to reduce her sentence to 25 years to life with the possibility of
parole gives her a chance to rejoin society.
• December 15, 2010- Hawthorne
— Reported on December 15, 2010, by Contra Costa Times.
— Arraignment is scheduled Dec. 27 for a felon who was ordered to stand trial on charges that
he forced two runaway teenage girls to work as prostitutes.
— Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Georgina T. Rizk found sufficient evidence to allow the
case against 34-year-old Leroy Bragg to proceed to trial, according to Deputy District
Attorney Marcia Daniel.
— Investigators said the alleged 13-year-old victim and a 14-year-old Upland girl rescued are
safe in foster care and with family members, respectively.
— The 13-year-old girl told police she was abducted and forced into prostitution by Bragg, police
said. As officers built their case against Bragg, who had been jailed on an unrelated weapons
charge.
— Bragg was charged in October with human trafficking involving a minor, pandering by
procuring a minor under 16, soliciting for a minor prostitute under 16, and first-degree
burglary with a person present.
— Previously reported October 4, 2010 in the Daily Breeze, October 2, 2010 in the San
Francisco Chronicle and September 29, 2010 in NBC Los Angeles
• November 8, 2010 – Sacramento
— Reported on November 8, 2010 by News 10 ABC
— U.S. District judge sentenced Marvin Chavelle Epps, 24, to 12 years and seven months in
federal prison for the sex trafficking of a minor
— Epps was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release once he serves his full term in
prison. Epps will be required to register as a sex offender
— On Apr. 12, 2010, Epps pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking of a 16-year-old girl who
worked for him as a prostitute.
— The victim worked for three weeks in October 2008 and Epps used Web sites to advertise
solicit sex dates in a north Sacramento motel.
• November 4-6, 2010 – Oakland
— Reported on November 8, 2010, by Alan Wang of ABC 7 KGO-TV San Francisco.
— A week-long nationwide crackdown on sex trafficking led to 72 arrests in the Bay Area alone.
— 5 of 6 Bay Area children rescued were concentrated on the streets of Oakland and Hayward.
• October 4, 2010 – Sacramento
- Reported October 4, 2010, by CBS 13
- Three Sacramento residents are facing multiple charges for allegedly pimping a teen girl and
creating pornography of a minor, according to the Department of Justice.
- A grand jury indicted 24-year-old Jamal Kareem Warren, 42-year-old Mario Londell Boyd and
23-year-old Ashley Nicole Evon on charges of sex trafficking of a minor.
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- Authorities accuse the three suspects of recruiting and transporting a 16-year-old girl for the
purpose of prostitution.
- Warren and Evon have been arrested, while Boyd has not yet been taken into custody.
• September 25, 2010 – Concord
- Reported September 28, 2010 by Robert Salonga of the Contra Costa Times
- Police officers searching during the weekend for a wanted parolee uncovered what Concord
authorities said was a scheme involving the prostitution of a teenage runaway.
- Mario Cano, 33, of Concord, was wanted for violating parole, and officers tracked him to a
home in the 1600 block of Donaldson Court about midnight Saturday.
- Police also found 37-year-old Derrick Jackson and a 16-year-old girl, whose explanations for
being there immediately raised suspicion.
- Cano and Jackson were booked into Contra Costa County Jail on suspicion of contributing to
the delinquency of a minor, possessing methamphetamine, possession of obscene material,
unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, solicitation of prostitution, pandering for prostitution,
human trafficking of a subject under 18, and lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
• September 13, 2010 – San Diego
- Written September 13, 2010 by San Diego 6
- Patrick Jones, 22, was convicted in May of one count each of sexual exploitation of a child
and sex trafficking of children and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
- Co-defendants Dwayne Tousant, 24, and Dominique Willis, were sentenced to 10 and nine
years.
- They picked up the 14-year-old at a restaurant on El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego and
drove her to Oceanside, where she was forced to pose for explicit photographs so "johns"
could be solicited to engage in commercial sex acts with the child.
• July 28, 2010 – Sacramento
— Reported July 28, 2010, by an FBI press release and published on 7thspace.com.
— Reginald Wilson, 23, sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison after pleading guilty to Sex Trafficking
of Minors in September 2009.
— Wilson recruited a 15- and 16-year-old and forced them into prostitution.
• July 26, 2010 – Sacramento County
— Reported July 26, 2010, by CBS13 in Sacramento County.
— Several victims forced into prostitution are in custody after police found them on the street
after curfew.
— No identifying information was provided.
• July 15, 2010 – San Diego
— Reported July 15, 2010, by Debbi Baker of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
— Charles Daun Hamilton, 33, allegedly forced a 16-year-old to work as a prostitute from April
to June 2010.
— Hamilton was indicted July 8, 2010, on one count of Sex Trafficking of Children by Force,
Fraud or Coercion.
• June 25, 2010 – Sacramento*
— Reported June 25, 2010, by Cathy Locke of the Sacramento Bee.
— Dominick West, 29, was sentenced to 10 years for Interstate Transportation of a Minor for
Sex to be served concurrently with the 51-year sentence he is currently serving for murder.
— Police report filed January 11, 2008, of a 15-year-old runaway from Montana being offered as
a prostitute on Craigslist.
— Girl was taken into custody and her story learned during a sting operation conducted by an
undercover officer.
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• June 10, 2010 – Los Angeles
— Reported June 10, 2010, by Robert J. Lopez of the Los Angeles Times.
— Dwayne Lawson, D.C. resident, met two girls on MySpace.com, picked them up in Florida at
separate times and took them to L.A. to work as a prostitute.
— Lawson pled guilty to Sex Trafficking of Children and was sentenced to 17 ½ years in federal
prison.
• May 19, 2010 – San Francisco*
— Full-page ad placed in the San Francisco Chronicle by the Rebecca Project. (Link
unavailable)
— Testimony from victims call for an end to Craigslist’s ‘Adult Services’ section:
— "Dear Craig,
Although we have not met, we are certain you would not want what happened to
us or to thousands of girls like us to ever happen again.
Craig, I am AK. In 2009, I met a man twice my age who pretended to be my
boyfriend, and my life as an average girl - looking forward to college, doing my
chores, and hanging out with my friends - ended. This "boyfriend" soon revealed
he was a pimp. He put my picture on Craigslist, and I was sold for sex by the
hour at truck stops and cheap motels, 10 hours with 10 different men every
night. This became my life.
Men answered the Craigslist advertisements and paid to rape me. The $30,000
he pocketed each month was facilitated by Craigslist 300 times. I personally
know over 20 girls who were trafficked through Craigslist. Like me, they were
taken from city to city, each time sold on a different Craigslist site - Philadelphia,
Dallas, Milwaukee, Washington D.C. My phone would ring, and soon men would
line up in the parking lot. One Craigslist caller viciously brutalized me,
threatening to dump my body in a river. Miraculously, I survived.
Craig, I am MC. I was first forced into prostitution when I was 11 years old by a
28 year-old man. I am not an exception. The man who trafficked me sold many
girls my age, his house was called "Daddy Day Care." All day, me and other girls
sat with our laptops, posting pictures and answering ads on Craigslist, he made
$1,500 a night selling my body, dragging me to Los Angeles, Houston, Little
Rock - and one trip to Las Vegas in the trunk of a car.
I am 17 now, and my childhood memories aren't of my family, going to middle
school, or dancing at the prom. They are making my own arrangements on
Craigslist to be sold for sex, and answering as many ads as possible for fear of
beatings and ice water baths.
Craig, we write this letter so you will know from our personal experiences how
Craigslist makes horrific acts like this so easy to carry out, and the men who
carry out, and men who arrange them very rich.
Craig, we know you oppose trafficking and exploitation. But right now, Craigslist
is the choice of traffickers because it's so well known and there are rarely
consequences to using it for these illegal acts. We've heard that the Adult
Services section of Craigslist brings in $36 million a year by charging for these
ads. These profits are made at the expense of girls like us, who are lured,
kidnapped, and forced to feed the increasing demand for child rape. New
traffickers are putting up ads every day because they know it's less risky and
more profitable to sell girls on Craigslist than to deal drugs. Please, Craig, close
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down the Adult Services section. Saving even one child is worth it. It could have
been us.
Sincerely,
AK & MC
Survivors of Craigslist Sex Trafficking"
• Week of April 5, 2010 – Ripon, Calif.
— Reported April 11, 2010, by Ely Portillo of the Charlotte Observer.
— Truck driver from Charlotte, N.C., Mirza Eganovic, 30, arrested for allegedly having sex with a
17-year-old victim of child prostitution in California.
— Eganovic faces charges of Engaging in Prostitution and Unlawful Intercourse with a Minor
Three or More Years Younger and Oral Copulation of a Person Under 18.
Colorado
• June 22, 2011- Denver*
— Reported on June 22, 2011, by Jeffry Wolf of 9News.com
— Three people were formally charged on Wednesday over the allegations they forced a 17-
year-old girl to participate in prostitution.
— The DA charged 22-year-old Chester Gray with trafficking in children, pimping of a child and
procurement of a child; 50-year-old Frank Devoe is charged with procurement of a child and
inducement of child prostitution; and 24-year-old Ryann Pangle is charged with seconddegree
kidnapping, unlawful sexual contact and third-degree assault.
— Gray and Devoe convinced the victim into participating in prostitution and when she tried to
leave, Pangle stopped her and assaulted her.
— Reported on June 22, 2011, by Denver Westword Blogs (references the use of
Backpage.com)
• April 19, 2011- Denver
— Reported on April 19, 2011, by Christina Dickinson of 9News NBC.
— Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey says Theresa Laswell, 19, was charged with felony
pandering of a child - arranging prostitution and felony pimping of a child.
— Her brother, Christian Laswell, 29, was charged in March with felony pandering of a child -
menacing, felony pimping of a child, felony child prostitution - soliciting and felony trafficking
in children.
— Morrissey says the two have allegedly been running a prostitution operation with at least one
girl under 18 years old.
— Reported on April 20, 2011 in The Denver Post.
• June 17, 2011- Denver*
— Reported on June 17, 2011, by Deb Stanley of ABC 7News
— A jury has convicted Dallas Colby Cardenas, 19, of pimping and trafficking two 17-year-old
girls in Denver between May and June 2010.
— Cardenas used sexually suggestive Craigslist ads to find customers, according to the
indictment.
— Cardenas told the girls to charge $175 per hour or $150 per hour, and give the money they
earned to him, prosecutors said.
— Cardenas is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 16.
— Reported on June 17, 2011, by Andrea Rael of The Huffington Post
— Previously reported on October 25, 2010, by ABC 7 News – Denver: Two men have been
indicted, accused of pimping a 17-year-old girl and 18-year-old woman on Craigslist. Dallas
Colby Cardenas, 19, has been charged with human trafficking, pimping, trafficking of
children, pimping of a child, pandering of a child and inducement of child prostitution. Ryan
Keith Jenkins, 23, has been charged with conspiracy to commit pimping and possession of a
controlled substance.
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• September 30, 2010 – Denver
- Reported October 1, 2010 by Wayne Harrison of Channel 7 News.
- A federal grand jury in Denver has delivered a 13-count indictment in a child prostitution and
trafficking case against Timothy Wayne Lee, 44.
- Lee is currently being held in Albuquerque, N.M. on similar state charges.
- A writ was expected to be issued to have Lee transferred to Colorado to face federal charges.
- Three of the counts allege that that between 2003 and 2009, Lee was involving in the sex
trafficking of three minors.
- Three other counts allege that between 2005 and 2009, Lee transported two minors from
Colorado to California for sex and another minor was transported from Colorado to Utah for
sex.
- Five counts allege that between 2005 and 2009 Lee transported five adults across state lines
with the intent to have them engage in prostitution.
• August 18, 2010 – Denver
— Reported August 19, 2010 by Denver Daily News.
— On August 18, A Denver Grand Jury returned a 24-count indictment yesterday against a
group of people accused of running a prostitution ring that included the kidnapping of a
teenage girl and then coercing her into prostitution.
— David Glenn Abney, 32, Chrystal Terbush, 28, Tevin Willis, 19, and Daivean Shields, 19, are
charged with numerous felony counts including trafficking in children, second-degree
kidnapping, and inducement of child prostitution, pimping of a child and pandering of a child.
— In May, a teenage girl from Colorado Springs was targeted by the group to become part of
prostitution operation in Denver.
• August 11, 2008 – Denver
— Reported August 11, 2008, by Tom McGhee of the Denver Post.
— Two-year investigation culminated in the arrest of two leaders of a prostitution ring involving
more than 50 girls, some of whom were underage.
— Hong Tang and Todd Allen Powell were arrested for a number of prostitution-related crimes
for leading a ring that produced more than $1 million annually.
— Police limited the information that was released about the victims because many were
underage.
• March 22, 2010 – Denver
— Reported March 23, 2010, by Michael Roberts of the Denver Westword Blogs.
— Police asked for help from the media getting the word out about a fugitive suspected if
prostituting children.
— Soon after the advisory went out, Adam Gurule was found and arrested. He was charged
with Keeping a Place of Child Prostitution.
— The victim in this, particular case was described by police as being in “her early teens.”
Connecticut
• June 8, 2011- Hartford
— Reported on June 8, 2011, by LeAnne Gendreau of NBC Connecticut
— Jarell Sanderson, a 31-year-old New Britain man, was sentenced to more than 25 years on
charges he and a co-defendant forced two 14-year-old girls to work as prostitutes.
— Sanderson pleaded guilty in January to engaging in the sex trafficking of children and was
sentenced to 310 months in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
— His partner, Hassanah Delia she pleaded guilty to two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud
or coercion on Dec. 7, 2010. She is scheduled to be sentenced on June 23, 2011.
— Sanderson and Delia gave the girls alcohol, told the girls to call them “Ma” and “Pa” and used
an Internet ad to sell the girls for sex at hotels in Hartford and East Hartford, according to
court documents.
— Reported on June 7, 2011, by Tom Cleary of NewsTimes
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— Previously reported on January 25, 2011, by Journal Inquirer: Sanderson and Delia
pleaded guilty to federal charges involving use of two 14-year-old girls as prostitutes at
motels in East Hartford and Hartford over a four-day period in July 2009
• November 10, 2010 – Bloomfield
— Reported on November 10, 2010, by Edmund H. Mahony of CTnow.com.
— A Bloomfield prostitution investigation has led to the federal indictment of a New York City
man on charges that he transported a minor between states for sexual purposes
— A federal grand jury named Bruce Damico, 32, who had residences in Hartford, New York
and Providence, in a five-count indictment charging that he transported a minor and two
adults between states and posted a sexually explicit photograph of the minor on the Internet
as an advertisement for a prostitution business.
— Damico is charged with one count of sex trafficking of children, one count of interstate
transportation of a minor for prostitution, one count of transportation of child pornography,
and two counts of interstate transportation of a person for prostitution. If convicted, Damico
faces up to life in prison.
• May 2010 – Ledyard*
— Reported June 10, 2010, by Chris Ayotte of NBC Connecticut.
— A 15-year-old runaway claimed two men forced her to be prostituted through ads placed on
Craigslist.
— Matthew Lallis was arrested and charged with Second-Degree Sexual Assault, Risk of Injury
or Impairing the Morals of a Minor and Promoting Prostitution.
Florida
• July 18, 2011- Orlando
— Reported on July 20, 2011, by WKMG Local 6
— The Orange County Sheriff's Office has, along with the U.S. Marshals and the Orlando Police
Department, arrested 10 people in connection with a sex trafficking case involving a minor.
— According to the Sheriff's Office, it was notified by another county that a runaway claimed she
and another girl were abused in Orange County. The other girl was located due to an arrest
on prostitution charges in south Florida.
— Based on the information provided by the girls, deputies arrested 10 people: Craig Golden,
Martha Wilson, Lachristopher Smith, Leo David, Rodney David, Guytembert Garcin, Olgens
Alcide, John Peter Henry, Shayne Parsons and Boby Louis.
— The 10 suspects were charged with sex trafficking, procuring a minor for prostitution, deriving
proceeds from prostitution, lewd and lascivious behavior with a minor and interference with
child custody.
— Reported on July 18, 2011, by Kelly Joyce of FOX 35 News
• July 16, 2011- Polk County
— Reported on July 16, 2011, by Sonja Sharp of Huffington Post
— A Florida cop and a school bus monitor were arrested Thursday in connection with a child
prostitution ring, Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
— Police arrested 27-year-old school bus attendant Paul Rosoan Aaron for allegedly forcing two
young teens into prostitution, at least one of whom he solicited while on the job
— A second affidavit identifies 25-year-old Haines City police officer Demetrius Lamar Condry
as one of Aaron's clients. He, too, is now facing charges
• May 25, 2011- Oakland Park*
— Reported on May 26, 2011, by Linda Trischitta of Sun Sentinel
— A third person was named in the federal child sex trafficking investigation of a bordello in
Oakland Park known as the Boom Boom Room.
— Willie David Rice, 45, acted as the doorman of the bordello was arrested May 14 and
charged with carrying a concealed firearm
— Reported on May 25, 2011, by Linda Trischitta of Sun Sentinel
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— Denied bail at a hearing Wednesday, James "Red" Mozie, 34, of Lauderhill, and his girlfriend,
Laschell "Shelly" Harris, 37, of Oakland Park, will be jailed until their trial on charges of child
sex trafficking.
— If they are convicted, they could face a decade or up to life in prison. They were arrested on
May 14 by members of the FBI-led Minor Vice Task Force.
— The woman was a mother figure, while her partner acted as the pimp over four underage girls
in a bordello called the Boom Boom Room.
— Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti said the whole phenomenon is being fueled by internet sites like
Craigslist and Backpage.com
— Previously reported on May 18, 2011, by Sun Sentinel: Mozie and Harris were arrested on
charges of recruiting, providing and maintaining minors (including a 14, 16, and two 17 year
olds) for commercial sex and could face 10 years to life in prison.
• May 10, 2011- Orlando*
— Reported on May 14, 2011, by WKMG Local 6
— A grand jury returned a 15-count federal indictment against Miguel Morancy, 29, of Orlando.
The charges allege Morancy coerced girls as young as 13 years old into prostitution.
— The indictment says ads were posted on Craigslist and Backpage for girls named "Tiffany
Doe," "Stefani Doe," "Sabrina Doe," and "Val Doe," who was described as a "Russian cutie."
— For three years, Morancy took girls from across Florida to hotel rooms in Tampa after
meeting Johns online, according to the indictment.
• May 10, 2011- Polk County*
— Reported on May 10, 2011, by wftv 9
— Twenty-two men were arrested and charged for traveling to meet a minor for sex during an
undercover operation.
— Investigators said the undercover operation named "Operation Last House Call," began on
April 18 and ended on May 8.
— Nearly every suspect answered advertisements posted by undercover detectives on the
Internet. The websites used included, Craigslist, Backpage, MyYearbook, and OkCupid.
• May 2, 2011- Tampa
— Reported on May 6, 2011, by America’s Most Wanted
— Federal and local law enforcement need help to locate and capture Eric Bell, “Santana,” an
accused sex trafficker and alleged producer of child pornography.
— On Dec. 1, 2009, Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office child protection investigators recovered one
of Bell’s underage sex trafficking victims who told them her horrific story.
— According to cops, some girls performed 15 to 20 sexual acts a day, charging up to $200 per
act -- with all of the proceeds going to Bell.
• May 2, 2011- Sarasota
— Reported on May 2, 2011, by Herald-Tribune
— Two Sarasota women face multiple charges for reportedly having sex with a 17-year-old girl
and for arranging for men to have sex with her for money.
— Victoria E. Williams, 27, is charged with procuring a child for prostitution, deriving support
from the proceeds of prostitution, sex trafficking, sexual battery, cruelty toward a child and
unlawful sex with a minor. She remained in the Sarasota County jail in lieu of $350,000 bail.
— Jennifer Williams, 29, is charged with procuring a child for prostitution, deriving support from
the proceeds of prostitution, sex trafficking, sexual performance by a child and unlawful sex
with a minor. She remained in jail in lieu of $175,000 bail.
• April 18, 2011- Polk County*
— Reported on April 18, 2011, by WESH.com
— Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies made 60 arrests in a seven-day undercover
investigation of online prostitution ads such as those posted on Backpage.com.
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— Most of the people arrested are from Central and South Florida, and detectives said they
were shocked when among those arrested was a 15-year-old runaway who brought her baby
with her.
— Reported on April 18, 2011, by Bianca Prieto of Orlando Sentinel
• April 12, 2011- Tampa
— Reported on April 12, 2011, by Don Germaise of ABC Action News.
— A woman who was forced to work as a prostitute says she was a sex slave for five years
before escaping.
— Marie was a teenager working at a strip club in Miami when she was recruited by a man she
thought of as an admirer. He turned out to be a pimp.
— Teenagers are frequently a target in the sex slavery trade. "We have rescued 43 children
from the ages of 13 to 17 in Tampa Bay since 2009," said FBI Agent Dave Couvertier.
• January 10, 2011- Jacksonville
— Reported on January 10, 2011, by First Coast News.
— Ian Sean Gordon, 29, was arrested in 2009 and entered a guilty plea to the charge of
trafficking a 15-year-old girl.
— According to documents cited by U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill, the girl and some friends
ran away in February from a juvenile rehabilitation center in Jacksonville.
— The documents indicate she stayed with a Melvin Friedman on Jasper Avenue, where she
was introduced to crack cocaine and prostitution.
— Gordon provided her with the essentials and drugs as she performed sex acts in various
hotels throughout the city, O'Neill said.
— The girl did eventually escape, and returned to her mother, who then took her to the police to
report Gordon.
— Six other individuals have been arrested in connection with the same victim, and they are
awaiting trial.
• January 6, 2011- Fort Lauderdale
— Reported on January 6, 2011, by Larry Welborn of The Orange County Register
— A former Costa Mesa resident who spent 29 years as a fugitive after he was convicted in
Orange County of child molestation in the 1970s was found guilty in Florida late Wednesday
of federal charges of bringing a child across state lines for sexual purposes.
— George Joseph England, now 66, was convicted of five charges involved with purchasing a
child in Vietnam in the 1960s, bringing her to Orange County and later Florida while passing
her off as his adopted daughter.
• January 3, 2011- Miami
— Reported on January 3, 2011, by Joseph Picard of International Business Times
— The Miami Super Bowl drew about 10,000 prostitutes, many of them child prostitutes, or
former child prostitutes - "modern-day slaves," as Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, calls them - brought to town by their
traffickers from all over the country.
— Advocates - national groups like Shared Hope International and the Rebecca Project, as well
as local groups like Traffick9/11 - are now gearing up to combat the traffickers who will be
coming to Arlington, Texas -- and Dallas, Ft. Worth and Mansfield -- this February for Super
Bowl XLV. Federal, state and local law enforcement are joining in the effort.
— Advocates have partnered for a national I'm Not Buying It Super Bowl campaign to raise
awareness of the problem, and alert local officials, law enforcement and citizenry.
• December 14, 2010- Tampa
— Reported on December 14, 2010, by MyFoxTampaBay.com
— Two fugitives recently featured on "America's Most Wanted" for a Georgia murder have been
captured in Tampa, U.S. Marshals said Tuesday.
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— Derrick Paul Holmes, 29, and Emma Hope Grant, 27, were arrested a Howard Johnson at
2055 N. Dale Mabry around 6 p.m. Monday.
— U.S. Marshals say the two were wanted in connection with a homicide that happened in
August 2008 in Stone Mountain, Ga., in which a recruited prostitute was shot and killed.
— Holmes was one of several people under investigation by Georgia law enforcement in 2008
for running a prostitution ring, and charges against him could also include human trafficking
of minors across state lines. Authorities say he acted as a pimp to several girls who were
recruited from several southeast states, and girls under the age of 18 were reportedly
targeted.
• November 12, 2010 – Marion County
— Reported on November 03, 2010, by MyFoxOrlando.
— An Ocala man is behind bars charged with sex trafficking two teenagers.
— John Casper Morgan, 22, forced a 13 year-old and a 16 year-old to prostitute themselves out
for money at three separate parties for men and that Morgan had sex with one of the
underage victims.
— Morgan has been charged with two counts of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, six counts of
Procuring a Person under 18 for Prostitution and three counts of Lewd or Lascivious Battery.
— He is being held in the Marion County jail with bond set at $475,000.00.
• November 4-6, 2010 – Tampa Bay Area
— Reported on November 8, 2010, by Chris Martinez of ABC Action News.
— three-day national prostitution sweep ended with the rescue of four teenage girls.
— FBI agents say the girls, ages 15 to 17, were found by police at Tampa Bay area motels, with
one found working on the street.
— The four teens reside in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Police also arrested more than
30 adults during the sweep.
• November 4-6, 2010 – Sacramento
— Reported on November 9, 2010, by John Lobertini of Fox40 News
— The FBI rescued seven girls from their pimps; three of them 17, two are 16 and two are 15
• October 20, 2010 – Ft. Myers
— Written October 20, 2010, by Associated Press and published in Orlando Sentinel.
— A Southwest Florida woman faces four counts of aggravated child abuse and four counts of
forced labor or services by human trafficking.
— Authorities say all four children were forced to purchase drugs for her, if they refused
beatings would follow.
• October 13, 2010 – Tampa
— Reported on October 13, 2010, by Elaine Silvestrini of the Tampa Tribune.
— Manuel Walcott, 31, was convicted in July of two counts of child sex trafficking and one count
of selling or buying a child.
— He was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison and probation for life.
— His partner, who pled guilty, will serve only 10 years in prison.
• August 12-15, 2010 – Polk County
— Reported August 16, 2010 by Gary Taylor of the Orlando Sentinel.
— Fifteen men from Orlando, Lake Mary, Maitland, Orange City, St. Cloud, Kissimmee and
elsewhere in Florida were accused of trying to have sex with girls.
— After exchanging emails, instant messages and telephone calls with people they thought
were the moms and dads of the young girls, and in some cases the children themselves, they
flocked to Polk County.
— Many arrived with condoms in their pockets, one toting Red Bull and Vodka and another with
a candy treat of Skittles for a 13-year-old girl he expected to meet.
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— Some of the men even sent pornographic images of themselves to the detectives and made
very specific requests for sexual activity with the children.
• August 2010 – Naples
— Reported August 13, 2010 by NBC Channel 2 WBBH.
— Wayne Neff, 57, facing felony charges for sex crimes involving a child.
— The 57-year-old Naples man is accused of going to a motel to meet someone he thought was
a 15-year-old prostitute.
• July 17, 2010 – Palm Beach
— Reported July 19, 2010, by CBS4 and CBS4.com.
— Butler of a man convicted of actions related to solicitation of underage prostitutes received
same sentence as his boss.
— Alfredo Rodriguez, butler of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein will serve 18 months in prison for
concealing evidence of Epstein’s sexual exploits.
• February 24- March 31, 2010 – Jacksonville
— Reported August 16, 2010 by Channel 6 News.
— Six arrests were made due to crimes discovered during a joint investigation by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office targeting child prostitution.
— The "Operation Abandoned Hope" investigated child prostitution allegations regarding the sex
trafficking of a minor girl, aged 15, between February 24 and March 31.
— Six indictments were issued against six individuals.
Georgia
• July 11, 2011- Norcross
— Reported on July 11, 2011, by Laura Sullivan of Lilburn-Mountain Park Patch
— Carl Fredrik Skow, 33, of Norcross has been arrested for sex trafficking of a child. He made
arrangements for an underage person to be in his custody for a year.
— Officials were able to make the arrest after a two-month operation, according to the GBI.
— The GBI’s new Human Trafficking Unit and the Sandy Springs Police Department assisted
U.S. Immigration and Customs to make the arrest. This is the first arrest that the new unit has
been involved in, according to Bankhead.
• July 10, 2011- Atlanta
— Reported on July 10, 2011, by Marcus K. Garner of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
— A missing Nashville teen, 16, was rescued from an Atlanta area human trafficking and
prostitution network, and one man was arrested during the investigation, authorities said.
— According to hotel records agents recovered, the teen had been staying there for more than
30 days.
— She was taken to the Metro Youth Detention Center pending transport to Tennessee, and in
a Friday morning hearing she was waived extradition to Tennessee.
• May 19, 2011- Atlanta*
— Reported on May 19, 2011, by The Associated Press printed in Times Free Press
— Soloman Manasseh Mustafa, 37, of Stone Mountain was arraigned before a federal
magistrate judge Wednesday.
— A grand jury indicted him and 24-year-old Kalandra Annette Wallace of Jonesboro last week
after prosecutors said they operated a sex trafficking ring in metro Atlanta and sometimes
transported young women to Alabama or North Carolina to engage in sex acts.
— The pair posted ads on websites like Craigslist and Backpage to recruit the young women
between January and June 2010, according to the indictment
— Reported on May 19, 2011, by Steve Visser of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• April 19, 2011- Catoosa County*
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— Reported on April 19, 2011, by Rhonda Cook of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
— 30 men were arrested during an undercover online investigation on Craigslist.com
— Donaldson, 51, and other suspects were allegedly lured with promises of no-strings-attached
sex with boys and girls in their teens and younger by a joint federal-local Safe Child Task
force that has made dozens of cases in northwest Georgia and many more nationwide.
— Most of the men walked into law enforcement traps when they responded to ads placed
under WFM -- women for men -- in the "casual encounters" section on Craigslist.com
• March 28, 2011- Atlanta
— Reported on March 28, 2011, by Christian Boone of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
— Christopher Thomas Lynch, better known to local gay audiences as Pasha Nicole, is charged
with human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude, two counts of sexual exploitation of a
child, pandering by compulsion and possession of drug related objects, Chief Deputy Sheriff
Stan Copeland told the AJC.
— Steven Donald Lemery, 35, is charged with five counts of aggravated child molestation, two
counts of human trafficking, child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes and
pandering by compulsion.
— Deputies have identified victims in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. The trafficking
scheme allegedly dates back two to three years.
• January 31, 2011- Atlanta
— Reported on February 1, 2011, by Kimathi Lewis of The Examiner
— Mr. Dmarcus Antwain Ward, 26, of Minden, was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal
prison on the sex trafficking charges after investigators said he took juveniles to Alabama and
back to Georgia, advertising them on the Internet for commercial sex acts.
— Investigators said Mr. Ward transported a 17-year-old girl for prostitution from Atlanta to
Birmingham and back again. Mr. Ward, who had posted photos of the teen on the Internet,
took all the money she earned within that 10-day period, according to the U. S. Attorney's
Office.
— Mr. Ward also forced a 14-year-old runaway into prostitution after meeting her on a toll-free
“chat line” and coercing her to go to Alabama with him.
— Previously reported on September 3, 2010 by KTBS: Dmarcus Antwain Ward, 25, pleaded
guilty in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to transporting minors across state lines for purposes of
prostitution. Ward faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in November.
• January 26, 2011- Marietta*
— Reported on January 26, 2011, by of WSBTV.com
— A Marietta man is in jail without bond charged with forcing an underage girl into prostitution at
a hotel.
— Investigators say it's another indication of how a serious problem in Atlanta is now spreading
into the metro area.
— Sly Deon Sampson faces four felonies and could face federal charges for exploitation of a
young girl.
— Special Agent Steve Emmett told Cavitt that websites like Backpage have picked up where
Craigslist left off in advertising to all types of woman and girls for all types of services.
• December 2, 2010- Atlanta
— Reported on December 2, 2010, CBS Atlanta
— DeKalb County police said they arrested a 48-year-old man for sex trafficking of children.
— Investigators said In June, Timothy Lyle Chappell, caused a 15-year-old female to be
involved in the commercial sex trade.
— Chappell is a Level 3 Violent Sexual Predator on Georgia’s Sex Offender Registry. He will
have an initial appearance in front of a U.S. Magistrate judge in Atlanta.
• November 12, 2010 – Atlanta
— Reported on November 12, 2010, by Christian Boone of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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— The CEO of an Atlanta data security company was arrested this week after a teen prostitute
told police the man paid to have sex with her when she was just 12 years old.
— Reflex Security CEO Peter Privateer, 56, was among alleged pimp Marcelo Desautu's clients.
Desautu, facing multiple felonies, including child molestation, has been in Cobb County Jail
since Aug. 2009.
— Privateer, who lives in a $1.3 million home in tony Sugarloaf Country Club, is being held
without bond in Gwinnett County Jail, charged with felony child molestation. A bond hearing
is scheduled for Nov. 18, Crawford said.
• September 27, 2010 – College Park
- Reported September 29, 2010 by Mehgaan Jones of the Clayton News Daily
- Christopher Pressley, 27, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on charges of coercion
and enticement of minors to engage in sexual activity.
- Pressley’s prison sentence will be followed by five years of supervised release, according to
the statement. He will be ordered to undergo drug, alcohol and sexual rehabilitation.
- He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $60,400 to the victims. Pressley pled
guilty to the charges on June 10.
• September 14, 2010 – Atlanta
- Reported September 14, 2010, by Ty Tagami of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- James Howard Johnson, 49, was sentenced to life in prison for molesting his stepdaughter
and then prostituting her in his home.
- Johnson started sexually abusing his stepdaughter in 2000 when she was 7 years old.
- The abuse escalated when she reached her teens, and he prostituted her at "sex parties" at
home.
- He forced her to drink alcohol, take the drug ecstasy and then have sex with men for money.
- Johnson also demanded the victim recruit her friends to the ‘sex parties’ and solicit men via
chat lines.
• July 22, 2010 – Atlanta
— Reported July 23, 2010, by Raisa Habersham of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
— Demetrius Darnell Homer, 29, was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges for forcing
three young girls into prostitution.
— Investigation spearheaded by FBI.
• May 9, 2010 - Columbus
— Reported May 9, 2010, by the Alan Riquelmy of Ledger Enquirer
— A 34-year-old mother accused of trying to extort cash from a man who allegedly paid to have
sex with her daughter pleaded guilty on Monday and was sentenced to community service
and probation.
— A 36-year-old mother who faces the same accusations failed to appear in court Monday
morning and now faces an arrest warrant
— Both women are accused of trying to extort money from 44-year-old John Przenkop. A grand
jury indicted the women in March on accusations they threatened Przenkop with child
molestation accusations in February 2010, unless he paid them $7,000.
— Previously reported April 9, 2010, by the Associated Press: Two high school girls met
John Przenkop on MySpace, then traveled to the Columbus, Ga.-area to exchange sexual
favors for money. Both were charged with prostitution-related violations, and both pleaded
guilty. Przenkop is accused of “accused of soliciting and performing immoral and indecent
acts with two children under 16.”
— Complete history of this case by Google news archives
• April 13, 2010 – Fulton County
— Reported April 13, 2010, by Alexis Stephens of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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— Johnathan Terry, 27-year-old Miami native, began a relationship with a Sandy Springs 14-
year-old in 2008. He then proceeded to force her into prostitution in Fulton and Dekalb
counties.
— Arrested May 26, 2009, when he arrived to meet a 16-year-old girl who was actually a police
decoy in a sting operation.
— Pleaded guilty to Child Molestation, Statutory Rape, Pimping, Pandering, Enticing a Child for
Indecent Purposes and Felony Reckless Conduct.
— Sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• February 4, 2010 – Macon
— Reported February 4, 2010, by Kendall Herold of NewsCentralGA.com.
— Shuntain Griffin and Marcus Henley are accused of forcing a 14-year-old into prostitution as
many as 10 times before selling her to an unidentified man.
— Case was thrown out, however, because Bibb County Investigator Allie Seckinger allegedly
committed perjury.
— Two other cases were also thrown out because of the allegations of perjury.
Hawaii
• February 15, 2011- Halawa*
— Reported on February 15 2011, by Nelson Daranciang of Star Advertiser
— A 21-year-old Halawa man is the only one of five defendants to receive the mandatory
minimum 10-year prison term for prostituting a 16-year-old girl and advertising her services
on Craigslist.
— A federal judge sentenced Marcus Xavier Arrington to the prison term Tuesday for sex
trafficking of a minor. U.S. District Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway also sentenced Arrington
to the mandatory minimum of five years' supervised release to take effect after he completes
his prison term.
— The victim told Honolulu police Arrington forced her to work as a prostitute in December 2008
by plying her with drugs and threatening her with a handgun after she had run away from
home. She also told police Arrington sexually assaulted her.
• October 25, 2010 – Honolulu*
— Reported on October 26, 2010, by Honolulu Star-Advertiser
— A 22-year-old Aiea Heights man facing a mandatory minimum 10-year federal prison term for
prostituting a 16-year-old girl and advertising her services on Craigslist will spend less than
three years behind bars
— U.S. District Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway sentenced Brad Yick Kin Young to 33 months,
reduced for aiding in the arrest and conviction of four others
— Previously reported March 24, 2010, by the Honolulu Star Advertiser: Brad Yick Kin
Young pleaded guilty to one count of Sex Trafficking of a Minor for forcing a 16-year-old into
prostitution. Young is one of five charged.
• October 5, 2010 – Honolulu
- Reported October 6, 2010, by WebNewsWire.com
- Rodney D. King, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra to 300
months in prison followed by a life term of supervised release in federal court.
- King pleaded guilty on May 25, 2010, to sex trafficking involving two adult women and two
minor females, and attempted sex trafficking involving an adult woman.
- On Aug. 27, 2010, Judge Ezra sentenced King’s co-defendant, Sharon Mae Nishimura, 31, to
100 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.
- According to other information before the court, King engaged one of the minor females in
commercial sex acts from September 2007 through December 2007, and another minor
female in December 2007, knowing both were minors.
- Also reported September 30, 2010 by KITV
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Idaho
• August 15, 2009 – Boise*
— Reported August 15, 2009, by KTVB 7.
— Lindsey McKeehan, 23, plead guilty to two counts of Felony Injury to a Child.
— McKeehan along with Colby Watson, 36, and Douglas Winberry, 50, offered the sexual
services of a 15-year-old girl on Craigslist.
Illinois
• April 1, 2011- Chicago
— Reported on April 1, 2011, by Jan Jeffcoat of FOX Chicago
— Sex trafficking is a growing epidemic in Chicago
— A young Chicago woman who was caught up in a sex traffic operation when she was only 16
years old shared her horrific story with FOX Chicago News.
— According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, Illinois is among the top 10 states it
receives the most calls from and the Department of Justice recently designated Chicago as a
"high-intensity area" for sex trafficking.
• February 9, 2011- Chicago
— Reported on February 9, 2011, by the Chicago Tribune
— Twin brothers from Dolton have pleaded guilty and were each sentenced to four years in
prison for forcing young women into prostitution in the south suburbs
— Tyrelle and Myrelle Lockett, 18, pleaded guilty in the Markham courthouse Tuesday to felony
charges of human trafficking for forced labor or services after an undercover sting operation
found that they forced young women, including one underage victim, to perform sex acts with
men for money
— The 17- and 18-year-old victims, who were not charged, told police that the brothers beat
them and threatened them if they didn't perform the sex acts, and took all the money.
— Previously Reported May 26, 2010, by Chicago Breaking News Center: Myrelle and
Tyrelle were charged with trafficking in persons for forced labor or services, involuntary
sexual servitude of a minor and involuntary servitude and held on $100,000 bond.
• January, 2011- Joliet
— Reported on February 16, 2011, by Brian Stanley of Naperville SunTimes
— Police launched Operation: Room Service in January after managers and owners of several
hotels contacted the police believing that their businesses were being used for prostitution
— 33 people were arrested who allegedly arranged encounters with prostitutes at hotels,
including a 17-year-old girl
• December 30, 2010- Mount Prospect
— Reported on December 30, 2010, by Paul Biasco of The Daily Herald
— A Mount Prospect massage parlor owner already accused of extorting and branding his
employees now has been charged with sex trafficking of children by force, among other
allegations, according to a new federal indictment Thursday.
— Alex A. Campbell of Glenview is accused of forcing numerous women to work at Day and
Night Spa, 940 E. Northwest Hwy., in Mount Prospect, extorting their earnings, forcing them
to engage in commercial sex acts and harboring them for commercial advantage.
— Campbell is being held in federal custody without bond
• December 13, 2010- Chicago
— Reported on December 16, 2010, by WLS 890 AM
— An undocumented "madam" was indicted on Monday after her arrest last month at a Pilsen
neighborhood brothel she allegedly disguised as a massage parlor to pimp young women
and girls (a 16 year old) out for prostitution.
— Rubicela Montero, 39, was charged with one count each of involuntary servitude and
involuntary servitude of a minor -- both Class X felonies -- and one count each of trafficking in
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persons for forced labor or services, and pandering, state's attorney's office spokesman Andy
Conklin said.
— An arraignment date was set for Dec. 29.
— Previously Reported on November 25, 2010, by The Associated Press: Rubicela
Montero was arrested who was reportedly running a brothel out of a basement apartment in
Chicago and advertising it in a Spanish-language newspaper and held on $400,000 bond
Wednesday after being charged with three counts of involuntary servitude, human trafficking
and pandering.
• November 4-6, 2010 – Chicago
— Reported on November 9, 2010, by Natasha Korecki of Chicago Sun-Times
— The three-day operation in the Chicago area led to the arrests of six pimps and 39 adults
charged with various sex crimes
— The three underage girls were taken in as victims and are now in the custody of the
Department of Children and Family Services
• September 9, 2010 – Chicago
- Reported September 9, 2010 by the Chicago Tribune
- Datqunn Sawyer, 31, was charged in a federal criminal complaint with sexual trafficking of
minors and sexual trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, in interstate commerce.
- Two other men, Waymond Orr, 30, and Kevin Sharp, 51, both of Chicago, were each charged
with felony pandering in Cook County Criminal Court.
- According to the federal complaint against Sawyer, he is accused of operating the child
prostitution ring from his home and the home of his mother, both on the West Side.
- Cook County prosecutors allege that Sharp and Orr worked for Sawyer as drivers and
enforcers, taking the girls to locations on the street and monitoring their activity to ensure
they were not pocketing money they earned from their sexual encounters.
• August 6, 2010 – Chicago
— Cornelius Mondane, 45, and Shermille Patterson, 41, were arrested for prostituting a 15-yearold
mentally disabled girl on Chicago’s West Side.
— Mondane and Patterson were charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and
trafficking in persons for forced labor of services.
— The girl told police that Mondane and Patterson would pick her up from her home and drive
her to the West Side, where she would perform sex acts for money.
• July 15, 2010 – Springfield*
— Reported July 16, 2010, by Robert Patrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
— Corey Allen Lockett, 23, placed ad’s of a 16-year-old runaway on Craigslist then drove her to
meet johns
— A 15-year-old was allowed to accompany older victim into hotel rooms.
— Charged with Interstate Transportation of an Individual Under 18 with Intent to Engage in
Prostitution.
• Weekend of February 20, 2009 – Chicago
— Reported February 23, 2009, by NBC Chicago and the Associated Press.
— FBI arrested 44 adults over the weekend for involvement in child prostitution as part of
Operation Cross Country, which 571 arrests in 29 cities.
— Five were arrested for running prostitution rings, 34 were charged with prostitution and five
were arrested as patrons.
— No victims in Chicago were identified, but Operation Cross Country brought 48 girls into
protective custody nationwide.
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Indiana
• January 5, 2011- Hammond
— Reported on January 5, 2011, by Sarah Tompkins of NWI Times
— A man who supplied drugs to his brother's Hammond-based sex trafficking ring was
sentenced to 27 years in prison by a federal judge Tuesday.
— Stanton Landry Cephus, 29, was convicted by a jury in 2009 of being part of the sex
trafficking conspiracy, along with his brother, Justin, and cousin Jovan Demont Stewart. The
two were sentenced to life in prison in December.
— Another source reports that minors were involved and Stanton Cephus was charged with 15
counts of sex trafficking children
• September 3, 2009 – Tippecanoe County
— Written August 7, 2010 by Sophia Voravong of Journal and Courier.
— Omar Luna-Valencia, 33, is facing federal charges stemming from a Sept. 3, 2009, traffic stop
on Interstate 65 near Dayton.
— Luna-Valencia was the driver of a five-passenger SUV that contained 12 people -- among
them, an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl.
— Judge Randy Williams will decide this Sept. 3 whether to accept Luna-Valencia's plea
agreement with the Tippecanoe County prosecutor's office.
— If accepted, 11 counts of human trafficking, a Class B felony, would be dropped.
Iowa
• February 9, 2011- Council Bluffs
— Reported on February 9, 2011, by Associated Press printed in KCCI Des Moines
— A third person convicted in a sex-trafficking conspiracy in Iowa and Nebraska has been
sentenced to prison.
— 23-year-old Katherine Heredia, of Omaha, Neb., was ordered to serve three years in prison.
She pleaded guilty last year to one count of sex trafficking.
— Earlier this week, 32-year-old Merrideth Crane-Horton, of Omaha was given 17 1/2 years.
Her husband, 35-year-old Edwin "Nate" Horton, was given more than 14 1/2 years.
— Heredia's husband, 21-year-old Ramon, is to be sentenced April 11.
— The four ran the sex ring from August 2007 to June 2010 in Council Bluffs and across the
Missouri River in Omaha. Prostitutes included a teenage girl.
— Previously reported June 15, 2010, by The Omaha World-Herald: Meredith Crane Horton
and Katherine Heredia were charged with forcing two underage girls into the sex trade.
• October 19, 2010 – Cedar Rapids
— Reported October 21, 2010, by staff of the Waterloo Daily Courier.
— Brandin Hagen was sentenced Tuesday to more than 24 years in prison for transporting a
minor out of the state to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
— Hagen also must serve 10 years probation after his release from prison and pay the victim
about $4,200 in restitution.
Kansas
• June 9, 2011- Sedgwick County*
— Reported on June 9, 2011, by Ron Sylvester of The Wichita Eagle
— Two men have been charged in Sedgwick County with buying and selling a teenage girl for
sex.
— Mike Neloms, 25, is charged with aggravated trafficking. Michael Gress, 54, faces charges of
engaging in sexual intercourse and sodomy with the girl and patronizing a prostitute.
— The girl advertised herself as an escort on the Internet site Backpage.com, giving her age as
19. She actually had just turned 15 when police found her at a Wichita motel.
— If convicted, Neloms faces between 12 and 55 years in prison on the aggravated trafficking
charge. Gress could be looking at a prison sentence of between four and 21 years,
depending on his criminal history, on each of the sex charges.
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— The teenager has been charged with misdemeanor prostitution and is being held in the
Sedgwick County Juvenile Detention Facility.
• March 13, 2011- Witchita
— Reported on March 13, 2011, by Ron Sylvester of The Wichita Eagle
— Donald L. Davis, 48, and James M. Cochran, 54, charged with rape and human trafficking
involving a 13 year old girls
— Girls and boys, on average, enter the sex trade between the ages of 11 to 13, according the
U.S. Department of Justice
— Wichita is among less than a dozen cities to bring such serious charges against those
accused of buying and selling teenagers.
— Prosecutors and police in south-central Kansas are also rethinking the way they see the
youths who were once called prostitutes and charged as criminals.
• January 15, 2011- Kansas City*
— Reported on January 15, 2011, by Mark Morris of The Kansas City Star
— A 23-year-old prostitute detained in Wichita in November confided to a Kansas Bureau of
Investigation agent that she had first sold herself on the street at age 13.
— By the time the interview concluded, the woman had given Wilson the names of several
children working as prostitutes.
— In June, the FBI’s Kansas City office organized a task force to rescue children forced into
prostitution and prosecute those who benefited from it.
— Independence police in 2009 engineered a child prostitution sting by placing ads on the
online advertising service Craigslist that were specific as to the young age of the girls being
offered.
• October 13, 2010 – Kansas City*
— Reported on October 13, 2010, by Kathy Quinn of FOX 4 – Kansas City.
— Steven Van Loenen, 31 and Spencer Hoff, 27, were arrested for electronic solicitation for
responding to an ad on Backpage.com offering sex with a 14-year-old girl.
— The arrests were announced by Kansas Attorney General Steve Six, who hopes the arrests
will lead to more changes.
• January 26, 2010 – Wichita
— Reported January 26, 2010, by Stan Finger of The Wichita Eagle.
— A 14-year-old girl in Wichita left her home voluntarily but was forced to work as a prostitute
after leaving the state.
— Police arrested three suspects after the girl returned home and recounted her story to her
family.
Kentucky
• May 20, 2011- Richmond
— Reported on May 20, 2011, by Ronica Shannon of The Richmond Register
— Two Madison County parents, Kathy and Anthony Wayne Hart, were indicted Wednesday on
human trafficking charges and could spend up to 20 years in prison for allegedly selling the
sexual favors of their teenage daughters (13 and 14)
— Human trafficking is a Class B felony, punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison.
• December 8, 2010- Elizabethtown
— Reported on December 8, 2010, by WLKY.com
— 54-year-old Rhonda Brown and 63-year-old James Curtsinger, both of Hodgenville, are in
state custody in connection with a human trafficking case involving a 15-year-old who was in
Brown’s care in 2009
— Brown was charged with first-degree complicity to sexual abuse, third-degree complicity to
rape, third-degree complicity to sodomy and human trafficking, victim under the age of 18.
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— Curtsinger has been charged with one count each of first-degree sexual abuse, third-degree
rape, third-degree sodomy and promoting human trafficking, victim under the age of 18.
• June 14, 2010 – Hartford
— Reported June 14, 2010, by Fox 7 WTVW.
— Cristel Small made her initial appearance in court after being arrested for running a child
prostitution ring out of her house.
— Small was arrested after three men paid her to have sex with three female children in her
home.
Louisiana
• January 30, 2011- Baton Rouge
— Reported on January 31, 2011, by Natasha Robin of Fox 8 Live
— Erick Jermaine Banks, 29, was checking out of a Baton Rouge hotel at about 3 a.m. when he
was arrested and booked into Parish Prison on trafficking of children for sexual purposes,
reported Sgt. Don Stone.
— When police arrived, they found a 15-year-old runaway who told them she had been used for
prostitution for several days
— She told police that Banks placed an advertisement on an unknown domain online offering
her for sex
• February 17-18, 2010 – New Orleans
— Reported February 22, 2010, by Michelle Hunter of The Times-Picayune
— A joint investigation resulted in the arrests of two, separate pimps.
— Two girls, a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old, were taken into custody during prostitution stings
at local motels. That led to their pimps being sought out and arrested.
— On February 17, Alesha Bailey was charged with Child Trafficking for Sex Purposes. Her
and her boyfriend took nude photos of the 16-year-old victim and posted them on a website.
— On February 18, Nicholas Crutchfield was charged with Child Trafficking for Sex Purposes,
Promoting Prostitution, Carnal Knowledge of a Juvenile and Contributing to the Delinquency
of a Juvenile because of his interaction and coercion of the 15-year-old victim.
Maine
• July 8, 2010 – Kittery
— Reported July 8, 2010, by Elizabeth Dinan of The Portsmouth Herald.
— Gary Reiner was released from federal prison having served 60 months for managing a
brothel that offered underage girls for prostitution.
— Sentenced March 3, 2006, but was released early for good behavior (5 year sentence)
— One victim was 13-years-old.
Maryland
• May 20, 2011- Gaithersburg*
— Reported on May 20, 2011, by Danielle E. Gaines of Gazette.net
— William D. Martinez, 25, and James W. Torrence, 63, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
charge of solicitation of prostitution after being arrested in a November police investigation
using backpage.com where the men thought they were going to meet a 15-year-old girl for
sex
— All 11 men arrested in the sting were originally charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, a
felony that carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison
• May 11, 2011- Baltimore
— Reported on May 11, 2011, by Justin Fenton of The Baltimore Sun
— A 43-year-old Glen Burnie man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for child sex
trafficking, after a missing 12-year-old called relatives from an Anne Arundel County motel
room and said she had been "recruited" into prostitution.
— Derwin Samuel Smith's sentence also includes 20 years of supervised release
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— Previously reported on March 10, 2011 by the FBI: Derwin Samuel Smith pleaded guilty
today to interstate transportation of a minor to engage in prostitution. On June 7, 2010,
members of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force recovered a 12-year-old girl, who
had been reported missing and was believed to be involved in prostitution, from a motel room
in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
• March 9, 2011- Gaithersburg
— Reported on March 9, 2011, by Danielle E. Gaines of Gazette.Net
— James Monroe Davis, 24, of Washington, D.C., met a 15-year-old girl in spring 2010 and
recruited her to work for him as a prostitute, according to court documents.
— Davis pleaded not guilty to the charge in an initial court appearance Tuesday morning at the
U. S. District Court of Maryland in Greenbelt.
— Davis was indicted by a federal grand jury in Greenbelt on Feb. 23. He is charged with
conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking, use of interstate facilities to transmit
information about a minor, and transporting a minor to engage in prostitution.
— Three of the counts carry a maximum penalty of life in prison; the maximum sentence for
using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor is five years in prison.
• November 25, 2010- Montgomery
— Reported on November 25, 2010, by Dan Morse of Washington Post
— Congressional staffer Robert Decheine, one of 11 men caught up in a recent Montgomery
County sex sting, showed up at an apartment complex expecting to go inside to meet a
teenager, police said, but instead was greeted by police officers in the parking lot.
— Decheine was booked into the county jail and released on a $15,000 bond
— He had been the chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, D-NJ, and was fired over the
incident.
— Police set up phony meetings after placing a personal advertisement on a website, which had
a photo of a young-looking woman. From Nov. 15 to 19, they arrested 11 men, (profiles
included in article)
• November 1, 2010 – Temple Hills
— Reported on November 2, 2010, by Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post
— A Prince George's County man was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for transporting
underage girls into the District for prostitution, including a 12-year-old foster child he was
raising
— Shelby S. Lewis, 42, of Temple Hills pleaded guilty in December 2009 to four felony counts
and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to concurrent terms for each
count
— Lewis admitted prostituting a 12-year-old girl for two years after he became her guardian, a
13-year-old girl for approximately three years, and two girls, 14 and 16, for shorter periods
• July 19, 2010 – Gaithersburg
— Reported July 21, 2010, by Andre L. Taylor of The Gazette.
— Lloyd Mack Royal III sentenced to 37 years in prison “for coercing three young girls to
perform sexual favors for money in 2007.”
— Royal was convicted March 24 of “Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking, Sex Trafficking of a
Minor, Sex Trafficking by Force and Possession of a Firearm.”
• July 14, 2010 – Waldorf
— Reported July 14, 2010, by Michael Bolden of the Washington Post.
— National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported a 17-year-old in Waldorf being
advertised for commercial sex on the Internet.
— That report led to the arrest of two women and the man and women overseeing the
prostitution ring.
— One underage girl was taken into custody.
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• June 10, 2010 – Baltimore
— Reported June 11, 2010, by Andrea F. Seigel of the Baltimore Sun.
— Gabriel Dreke-Hernandez was arrested and charged with Human Trafficking of a Minor, First
and Second-Degree Assault, Kidnapping and a number of other related offenses.
— He was caught with three girls in a local hotel room, each of whom he had forced into
prostitution. Two of the girls were teenagers, and one of those two was 16-years-old.
— Part of Anne Arundel County officials’ crackdown on prostitution and sex trafficking known as
“Operation Escape.” The operation sternly requests assistance from local hotel/motel
owners, or they can also be charged for abetting certain criminal activity.
• Early June 2010 – Laurel*
— Reported August 3, 2010 by Steve Turnham and Amber Lyon on Anderson Cooper 360.
— At a hotel in Maryland a 12-year-old girl was discovered
— She told her mother she was being forced to work as a prostitute.
— According to police and anti-trafficking advocates, the internet has now become the preferred
way to sell women for sex.
— Craigslist this year is expected to earn a third of its revenue -- more than $36 million -- from
its adult services section alone.
Massachusetts
• July 8, 2011- Somerville
— Reported on July 8, 2011, by Matt Byrne of Boston.com
— A 16-year-old girl was arrested June 28 in a prostitution sting at a Somerville hotel, the police
said yesterday.
— The vice officers saw a classified advertisement for sexual conduct in an unidentified media
source, contacted the girl, and set up a time to meet. The girl quoted the officer $150 for a
half hour of sexual conduct or $200 for an hour, and told the officer to bring condoms,
according to the report.
— After her arrest, the girl said she was wanted for a Child in Need of Services warrant, usually
issued to runaway children. Police also notified the Department of Children and Families.
• May 27, 2011- Danvers, Dorchester, Quincy*
— Reported on May 27, 2011, by Brian R. Ballou and John R. Ellement of The Boston Globe
— A 15-year-old girl was forced to have sex with men who paid between $100 and $150 to
Norman S. Barnes, a Dorchester man accused of kidnapping the girl and forcing her to
become his sex slave for 10 days, officials alleged today.
— Barnes recruited customers by having the girl pose in a pink dress for an internet posting on
the website -- backpage.com
— Barnes is being held without bail for at least the next 60 days.
• November 23, 2010- Boston
— Reported on November 23, 2010, by Jenifer B. McKim of The Boston Globe
— Dorchester man was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a
vicious prostitution ring that trafficked teenage girls from Maine to Florida.
— US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner said the lengthy term was not only punishment for
Eddie Jones, 27, but was also intended to deter others in the business of trafficking minors.
— Jones was convicted last year of one count of conspiracy and two counts of transporting a
minor across state lines to engage in prostitution.
— He is the last of six men to be sentenced in a federal case that put a spotlight on the growing
problem of child prostitution in Boston and around the United States.
• October 13, 2010 – Danvers
— Reported October 15, 2010, by Boston Globe staff.
— Maria Trinidad pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to two years in prison for trying to turn
a 13-year-old girl into a prostitute.
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— Trinidad’s 18-year-old son also pleaded guilty to the inducement count and was sentenced to
six months.
• April 23, 2010 – Hyde Park
— Reported April 25, 2010, by Travis Andersen of the Boston Globe.
— Darryl Tavares, 26, was convicted of Transporting Minors in Interstate Commerce for
Purpose of Prostitution.
— One young girl said that Tavares cut her face with a potato peeler to scar her and let
everyone know that she belonged to him.
— Tavares’ child prostitution network extended from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, New
Jersey and Maine.
Michigan
• November 4-6, 2010 – Detroit
— Reported on November 8, 2010, by Robert Snell of The Detroit News
— Four juveniles involved in prostitution rings were rescued across southeast Michigan last
weekend as part of a nationwide law-enforcement sweep
• August 18, 2009 – Detroit*
— Reported August 19, 2009, by Jonathan Oosting of MLive.com.
— Dennis Paige ran an Internet child prostitution network on Craigslist and other sites
— Paige was convicted of multiple crimes and sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. Charges
included two counts of Sex Trafficking of Children, two counts of Transportation for Purposes
of Prostitution and Distribution of Child Pornography.
• October 24, 2008 – Detroit*
— Reported March 19, 2009, in an official press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the
Eastern District of Michigan.
— Robert C. Daniels was found guilty on eight counts of child prostitution and child pornography
and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
— Forced his girls to list themselves “on Craigslist other Internet Web sites.”
— He was also charged with Running a Child Exploitation Enterprise. This was the first trial
conviction nationwide under Congress’s 2006 creation of the Adam Walsh Act.
— “Daniels was also violent. Co-defendant Stephanie Head — Daniels’ “bottom” or lead
prostitute — testified that he repeatedly hit her in the head with a closed fist, then ran her
over with his car.”
Minnesota
• June 20, 2011- Rochester*
— Reported on June 20, 2011, by Ellery McCardle of kaaltv.com
— Rochester police arrested four more people for prostitution over the weekend, one girl is only
17 years old.
— Police won't say which websites they used for this bust but in the past they've used
Backpage.com. We clicked on the site and found 6 ads posted for the Rochester area just
for Monday.
— Olmsted County attorney Mark Ostrem said they're taking a new approach with the women
involved, treating them more as victims, not criminals. One of the places they'll be referred to
is Mission 21, a Rochester organization that helps victims of sexual exploitation.
— Police say the 17-year-old female will not be charged, but the two alleged pimps are
expected to appear in court Tuesday.
• June 14, 2011- Minneapolis*
— Reported on June 14, 2011, by Robert Patrick of STLToday.com
— A couple from Minneapolis pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday and admitted driving a
teenage runaway around the Midwest so that she could answer online prostitution ads.
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— Maurice Dontae Alexander, 24, and Latoshia Norris, 25, both pleaded guilty to enticement to
engage in prostitution.
— As part of that plea, both admitted that they met a 16-year-old girl in Minneapolis in May
2010. The girl, who was from South Dakota and had run away from a Nebraska group home,
told the pair that she was 17.
— The teen called Alexander her pimp, and the trio placed ads on the Backpage.com website,
then traveled to Des Moines, the Kansas City area and Indianapolis to meet customers
• April 6, 2011- Truman
— Reported on April 6, 2011, by the FBI
— 44-year-old over-the-road trucker Kenneth Leon Wilcox was sentenced in federal court in
Minneapolis for taking a 14 year old child on interstate trucking trips for the purpose of having
sexual relations with her and producing pornography involving her.
— District Court Chief Judge Michael J Davis sentenced Kenneth Leon Wilcox to 480 months in
prison and a lifetime of supervised release on one count of transportation of a minor with
intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of production of child pornography.
• January 21, 2011- Anoka*
— Reported on January 21, 2011, by Leslie Rolander of KSTP.com
— An Anoka man has been charged for promoting the prostitution of a 16-year-old girl.
— 20-year-old Zaiye Dehkee Jr. advertised the girl through the Internet service Backpage.com,
set prices for services, and provided transportation.
— The girl says in the last 8 months she had sex for money with about 600 men, sometimes as
many as eight per day.
— Dehkee is charged with incidents alleged to have occurred at various locations throughout
the metro area, including hotels, private residences, and Dehkee's home.
— Investigators believe there could be other victims in Anoka County.
• December 9, 2010- Minneapolis/St. Paul
— Reported on December 9, 2010, by James Walsh of the Star Tribune
— Byronte Juwann Reed, 28, sentenced to 15 years in prison for forcing a teen girl to perform
sex for money in Minneapolis and Chicago for two months in 2008
— “This investigation was the result of the strong, ongoing partnerships developed by the St.
Paul Police Department's Gerald D. Vick Human Trafficking Task Force," St. Paul Police
Chief Thomas Smith said after Thursday's sentencing. "Working closely with the FBI and the
U.S. Attorney's Office, the task force and its partners were able to successfully prosecute this
individual."
— Previously reported on October 14, 2010 by the FBI: Byronte Juwann Reed, also known
as Santana, pleaded guilty to one count of the sex trafficking of a minor. Reed admitted he
knew the girl was under 18 and used force to subdue her. He faces a maximum sentence of
life in prison at a later hearing yet to be scheduled.
— Previously reported April 16, 2010 by The Star Tribune: Byronte Juwann Reed was
indicted in August 2009 for three counts of Sex Trafficking of a Minor. After failing to appear
to his court date in February, he had been at large and on the run until his arrest in April
2010. Reed was tracked down and arrested in Baton Rouge, La. He was returned to
Minnesota to stand trial.
• November 10, 2010 – Minneapolis/St. Paul
— Reported on November 10, 2010, by Frank Bi of The Minnesota Daily
— After the shocking arrest of 17 of their peers Monday, the Somali community of Minnesota is
struggling to grasp the bust of a human trafficking sex ring that spanned three states
— The Somali gangs in Minneapolis and St. Paul coerced four girls, including one as young as
12 years old, into engaging in sex acts with multiple people in three states, according to the
indictment. The girls were all from Minnesota.
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— The girls most vulnerable to sex trafficking are runaways. The first victim was found after
police recognized her as a known runaway after she and several gang members were pulled
over in Nashville, Tenn.
• November 4-6, 2010 – Minneapolis/St. Paul
— Reported on November 8, 2010, by Jay Kolls of KSTP.com
— 17 people from Minnesota were indicted as part of a national effort to crack down on human
trafficking
— Investigators say the Somalian gangs who operated the ring forced young girls into sex for
money and drugs. The Somalian gangs transported the young girls across state lines into
four different states to keep their operation undercover
— The indictments say the four women and children who were forced into the prostitution ring
range in age from 12 to 18
— If convicted of the most serious charges, the sex ring suspects could face between 15 years
to life in prison.
• October 13, 2010 – Minneapolis*
— Reported October 13, 2010, by Hank Long of the Woodbury Bulletin.
— Stevon Warren, arrested April 2009 for soliciting a minor as a prostitute on Craigslist, was
officially charged Oct. 13 with transporting a woman across state lines to engage in
prostitution.
— Warren could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of his most recent charges.
• September 16, 2010 – Burnsville*
- Reported September 16, 2010 by Paul Walsh of the Star Tribune
- Arthur J. Chappell, 38, was found guilty of sex trafficking of a minor.
- For about two months in mid-2007, Chappell recruited a girl under 18 to perform sex acts for
money.
- He ran a prostitution operation in the Twin Cities that he advertised on the Craigslist and
Backpage Web sites.
Missouri
• June 8, 2011- Protem
— Reported on June 8, 2011, by Kyle Bosch of KSPR.com
— A mother from Protem, MO faces up to 22 years in prison for forcing her teen daughter into
the sex trade.
— A jury from Taney County convicted 55-year-old Ann Margaret Williams of promoting
prostitution and endangering the welfare of a child.
— Prosecutors say Williams forced her 15-year-old daughter to have sex with Billy Joe Hunter
from late 2006 through 2007.
— Williams faces up to 15 years in prison for the promoting prostitution charge, and 7 years for
endangering the welfare of a child. She'll be sentenced August 11th, 2011.
— Hunter pleaded guilty to statutory rape and statutory sodomy in November 2009. According
to court records he was sentenced to 7 years in prison, but served 120 days shock-time.
• March 9, 2011- Kansas City*
— Reported on March 8, 2011, by Brennan David of Columbia Daily Tribune
— Eric Gathings, also known as “Pulu,” 36, of Columbia, and Brandy Key, also known as
Brandy Wheeler, 39, of Kansas City, were charged in a seven-count indictment returned
under seal by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
— The federal indictment charges Gathings and Key together with one count of sex trafficking of
a minor between June 1 and Dec. 31, 2009. Gathings and Key are also charged together with
one count of using the Internet and cell phones to commit a crime of violence against the
minor victim and to facilitate the unlawful activity of prostitution and sex trafficking of a minor.
— Reported on March 9, 2011, by InfoZine
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• February 24, 2011- Springfield
— Reported on February 24, 2011, by Terra Haff of KSPR ABC 33
— The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced Thursday that a Springfield
man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a sex-trafficking conspiracy.
— 45-year-old James Noel admitted to sexually abusing and torturing a young woman who was
mentally delayed for her age, who is identified as FV.
— Noel is subject to a sentence of up to five years in federal prison without parole, plus a fine up
to $250,000 and an order of restitution.
— Four other men are also accused of torturing FV and advertising her online, 43-year-old
Edward Bagley, 32-year-old, Bradley Cook, 51-year-old Dennis Henry and 62-year-old
Michael Stokes.
— Previously reported in Kansas City on September 9, 2010 by FBI: Edward Bagley, Sr.,
43, and Michael Stokes, 62, both of Lebanon, Dennis Henry, 50, of Wheatland, James Noel,
44, of Springfield, and Bradley Cook, 31, of St. Louis, were charged for their roles in a
commercial sex trafficking conspiracy in an 11-count indictment that was returned under seal
by a grand jury.
• February 15, 2011- Kansas City*
— Reported on February 15, 2011, by Gwen Florio of the Missoulian
— A University of Montana student who pleaded guilty to pimping underage girls on Craigslist
was just looking for beer money "to fund some endless summer," his lawyer said Tuesday.
— Richard Carpita, 30, was sentenced Tuesday in Missoula County District Court to 20 years in
Montana State Prison, with 10 suspended, on a charge of aggravated promotion of
prostitution.
— Money earned by the young women was split 50-50, either with Carpita or his co-defendant,
Anthony Brazington, 21, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to commit aggravated
promotion of prostitution and conspiracy to commit promotion of prostitution. His sentencing
is set for March 8.
— There were four young women involved - three were under the age of 18, including one who
was a 16-year-old runaway
• December 24, 2010- St. Louis*
— Reported on December 24, 2010, by Wendy Davis of MediaPostNews
— Arguing that it is immune from liability, Village Voice Media has asked a judge to dismiss a
lawsuit by a teenage sex trafficking victim.
— Backpage was sued in September by a teen identified only as M.A., who says she was
prostituted at age 14 by an adult woman, Latasha Jewell McFarland. M.A. alleges that
McFarland posted Backpage.com ads that featured M.A.'s photo and advertised her as a
paid escort for sex.
— Previously reported on December 1, 2010, by FOX2now.com: Latasha McFarland was
sentenced to the maximum prison time under the conviction for prostitution -- 5 years.
Attorney Robert Pedroli, who's trying to help the victim's family, is also suing Backpage.com
for aiding and abetting in child sex trafficking.
• October 6, 2010 – Chillicothe, MO*
— Reported Oct. 8, 2010, by Justin Kendall of Pitch.com.
— Randall Jennings was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years and ten months in federal prison
for forcing five underage girls into prostitution.
— The girls were forced to post ads on Craigslist and other Internet sites, and Jennings would
drive them to the motel to meet the john.
— The court is still considering whether to make Jennings pay each of his victims $176,530 in
restitution.
— Addressing the judge, Jennings said he thought the girls were college-age students.
— Reported October 6, 2010, by Mark Morris of The Kansas City Star
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• September 16, 2010 – St. Louis*
- Reported September 17, 2010 by KSPR-33
- A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court claims the Web site Backpage.com aided in child
prostitution by providing a place for a pimp to advertise a 14-year-old St. Louis girl for sex.
- The attorney for the girl, Robert Pedroli, says she was a runaway in 2009 and met a woman
who persuaded her to become a prostitute.
- That woman paid to advertise the girl for sex on Backpage.com, according to the lawsuit.
- The suit claims Backpage.com knew that prostitution was being facilitated through the Web
site.
• July 28, 2010- Blue Springs
— Reported July 28, 2010 by Kelly Evenson of The Examiner.
— Todd Barkau, 38, formerly of Blue Springs, MO was sentenced in New York to 25 years in
federal prison.
— He was sentenced for sex trafficking of a child, grooming her to become a sexual dominatrix.
— The girl was obtained by Barkau at the age of 12 with consent of her mother.
• June 24, 2010 – St. Louis*
— Reported June 25, 2010, by Robert Patrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
— Roman Catholic Priest James P. Grady was sentenced to 80 months for attempting to Obtain
a Minor for a Commercial Sex Act.
— Grady contacted a Craigslist add offering up a 16-year-old girl for sex. The ad was part of a
sting operation conducted by St. Louis County Police and the FBI. He was arrested July 29,
2009.
• May 5, 2010 – Kansas City
— Reported May 6, 2010, by Tony Rizzo of the Kansas City Star.
— A girl recounted her experience as a sexually exploited minor before her mother was
sentenced to 15 years in prison.
— Neither the girl’s name nor her mother’s were released.
— At the age of 12 in the year 2000, this victim was forced to list herself online and perform sex
acts for money.
Montana
• January 25, 2011- Missoula*
— Reported on January 25, 2011, by Gwen Florio of the Missoulian
— Anthony Brazington, 21, was accused along with Richard Carpita, 30, of pimping four women,
three of them under 18, on Craigslist. Carpita pleaded guilty last month.
— The case came to light in May when a man ran away from the Town Pump in Lolo after an
alleged theft. A woman left behind in his car told Missoula County sheriff's deputies that the
man and his roommate were prostituting a 16-year-old runaway, as well as three other teens.
— Townsend ordered a pre-sentence investigation for Brazington, and set sentencing for March
8. Carpita is to be sentenced Feb. 15.
— Carpita and Brazington remain in the Missoula County Detention Facility on $150,000 bail
each.
— Aggravated promotion of prostitution carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in the Montana
State Prison and a $50,000 fine, while promotion of prostitution carries a 10-year prison term
and a $50,000 fine. Promotion of prostitution becomes an "aggravated" offense when the
prostitutes are under the age of 18.
— Previously reported September 11, 2010 by the Missoulian: Richard A. Carpita and
Anthony J. Brazington were arrested. Carpita was charged with three counts of aggravated
promotion of prostitution and one count of promoting prostitution, all felonies. Brazington was
charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated promotion of prostitution and conspiracy to
commit promotion of prostitution, also felonies.
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Nebraska
• May 20, 2011- Omaha
— Reported on May 20, 2011, by Todd Cooper of Omaha World-Herald
— Douglas County District Judge Gary Randall sentenced the 59-year-old John Haas, an Air
Force retiree, to two to five years in prison for soliciting sex from a 15 year old girl
— Haas originally faced 15 years to life in prison. But after consulting with the victim's family,
prosecutor Shelly Stratman allowed him to plead to a reduced charge so the girl didn't have
to testify.
• April 12, 2011- Omaha
— Reported on April 12, 2011, by the KETV.com
— Ramon Heredia of Omaha has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in a
conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
— He was one of four people who admitted to selling young women for sex along with Heredia's
wife, Katherine, Merrideth June Crane-Horton and Edwin Nathan Horton.
— Katherine Heredia was sentenced to three years.
— Previously reported on February 7, 2011 by WOWT-TV: A January 2010 sex trafficking
sting that originated in Council Bluffs has led to long prison sentences for two people. Mary
Crane Horton, 32, has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison and Nate Horton, 35,
will spend 14 1/2 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit or financially benefit from
sex trafficking.
— Previously reported on February 7, 2011, by KETV 7 ABC and Omaha World Herald:
The Hortons and the Heredias pleaded guilty to enticing a 15-year-old girl and coercing her to
perform sex acts with others for money and face potential sentences of up to life in prison.
— Previously reported January 13, 2011 by Omaha World Herald: E. Kosiski, 45, has been
charged with first-degree sexual assault of a child in connection with a prostitution ring but
was released from jail Tuesday after posting 10 percent of $25,000 bail. If convicted, Kosiski
could be sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Kosiski is alleged to have had sex in January
2010 with a 15-year-old girl who was part of a sex trafficking ring.
— Previously reported October 26, 2010 by Omaha World Herald: Merrideth Crane-Horton,
32, Edwin Horton, 35, Katherine Heredia, 23, and Ramon Heredia, 21, each pleaded guilty
last week in an Iowa federal court to conspiring to commit or financially benefit from sex
trafficking a 15 year old girl in Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sarpy County. Each defendant
could face life imprisonment. They will be sentenced Feb. 7
• April 23, 2010 – Omaha
— Reported April 23, 2010, by U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Gild in a press release for the U.S.
Department of Justice’s District of Nebraska.
— Richard Costanzo was arrested and three others will also be charged for their work with
Dream Girls, Inc., an escort service.
— All four charged with Conspiracy; Using a Facility of Interstate Commerce to Promote
Prostitution, Transportation with Intent to Promote Prostitution and Enticing a Minor to Travel
with Intent to Engage in Prostitution.
Nevada
• April 21, 2011- Reno
— Reported on April 21, 2011, by Jaclyn O’Malley of RGJ.com
— Federal jurors in Reno took 75 minutes Thursday afternoon to convict a 19-year-old pimp
from Sacramento of leading two girls, 14 and 15, to Reno from California to gain money they
earned through prostitution.
— Aaron L. Ross, unemployed, was found guilty of two counts of transportation across state
lines of a minor for purposes of prostitution. He is facing a minimum term of 20 years during a
sentencing scheduled for July 19.
— Previously reported on December 2, 2010 of KOLOTV.com: Aaron Ross is facing federal
charges of bringing a juvenile across state borders to engage in prostitution.
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• Week of April 19, 2010 – Las Vegas
— Reported April 21, 2010, by the Associated Press.
— Between February 3 and February 7, 2010, Dwayne Warren Bogan allegedly recruited an
underage girl and forced her into prostitution.
— He was arrested in Phoenix and charged with Sex Trafficking of a Minor, Sex Trafficking
through Force, Fraud, or Coercion, Transporting a Minor Across State Lines for Prostitution
and Transporting a Person Across State Lines for Prostitution
— Bogan faces between 10 years and life in prison.
• December 10, 2009 – Las Vegas
— Reported December 13, 2009, by John L. Smith of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
— Quinton Williams sentenced to 17 ½ years in federal prison for Interstate Transportation of
Minor Females for Prostitution, Money Laundering, the Sex Trafficking of Children and
Interstate Travel in Aid of Racketeering.
— Williams brought a 15-year-old with him from Chicago to Las Vegas to continue her role as a
victim of domestic sex trafficking.
New Hampshire
• May 13, 2011- Portsmouth*
— Reported on May 13, 2011, by Elizabeth Dinan of SeacoastOnline
— Police arrested a second Massachusetts man on charges alleging the prostitution of a 16-
year-old runaway at a city hotel.
— Jean Payoute, 22, was arrested Tuesday on a felony count of prostitution, two misdemeanor
charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and a third misdemeanor alleging
interference with the custody of a child.
— Payoute was arraigned Wednesday in Hampton District Court and is being held on $10,000
cash-only bail
— The girl was advertised on Backpage.com as being age 20 and an escort available in
"various locations" in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts
• May 3, 2011- Portsmouth*
— Reported on May 3, 2011, by Elizabeth Dinan of SeacoastOnline
— A Mass. man is charged with four crimes alleging he arranged for a 16-year-old runaway to
prostitute herself in a city hotel room.
— Wayne Miller, 21, is charged with a felony count of prostitution alleging that on Oct. 22, he
drove the 16-year-old to a Borthwick Avenue hotel for her to have sex with men for cash.
— The victim was advertised on Backpage.com as a 20 year old
— Miller was arrested April 22, was arraigned in Derry District Court, then was released after
posting $2,500 cash bail.
— Previously reported on January 20, 2011, by WMUR News 9: City police have obtained a
warrant for the arrest of an adult male for facilitating the prostitution of a 16 year old teen girl
in a city hotel room
— Previously reported on January 6, 2011, by Elizabeth Dinan of SeaCoastOnline.com:
An underage girl was sold as a prostitute in a city hotel room and detectives are investigating
out-of-state suspects for exploiting her. The girl caught by Portsmouth police is currently
being prosecuted through the city's confidential juvenile court. There goals are different than
in adult court, where sentences are designed to deter and punish.
• July 22, 2010 – Boscawen
— Reported July 22, 2010, by WMUR-TV 9, New Hampshire.
— Timothy Murray was arrested after it was reported he was attempting to exchange drugs for
sex with teenage girls.
— Murray approached a 14- and 15-year-old at the Hannah Duston Memorial offering drugs in
exchange for sexual favors.
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New Jersey
• April 6, 2011- Asbury Park
— Reported on April 6, 2011, by Nancy Shields of Asbury Park Press
— Authorities have charged an Asbury Park man and two associates with endangering the
welfare of a child, promoting prostitution, human trafficking for purposes of prostitution, and
simple assault after holding a 17-year old Asbury Park girl here.
— Charged were Lazarus Roseboro, 39, of Sewall Avenue, Asbury Park, Essence Smith, 18, of
Greensboro, N.C., and Shawn Johnson, 29, of Brooklyn.
• March 9, 2011- Atlantic City
— Reported on March 9, 2011, by ABC WPVI
— An Atlantic City woman is behind bars as the result of a joint investigation targeting child
prostitution and human trafficking cases.
— Alicia Stewart, 25, was arrested for Human Trafficking and Promoting Prostitution.
— The investigation revealed that Steward was acting as a pimp for several females two of
which were Atlantic City High School students.
• March 2, 2011- Camden
— Reported on March 2, 2011, by Media-Newswire.com
— Amin Sharif was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison today for his involvement in an
enterprise which operated in New Jersey and elsewhere and employed both women and
minor girls as prostitutes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
— Sharif used the Internet to advertise the prostitutes on websites such as Craigslist. He also
used websites such as MySpace and Localhookupz.com to recruit girls to work as prostitutes
for him.
— In addition to the prison term, Judge Rodriguez sentenced Sharif to serve 15 years of
supervised release. Sharif has been detained since his arrest on May 15, 2009.
• February 10, 2011- Old Bridge
— Reported on February 10, 2011, by New Jersey Today
— Police arrested a township man who allegedly showed pornographic images to a 14-year-old
boy and offered the child money for a sexual favor
— Robert MacDonald, 62, of the Laurence Harbor section of Old Bridge was arrested at his
home on Feb. 9 and was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and promoting
prostitution.
— MacDonald is being held at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North
Brunswick. Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz set bail at $50,000 with the provision that
the defendant have no contact with the victim and no unsupervised contact with children
under the age of 16.
• January 26, 2011- Flemington
— Reported on January 26, 2011, by Walter O’Brien of MyCentralJersey.com
— Jury selection has begun in the often delayed trial of a former firefighter Frank Venable, 56,
charged with 15 counts of sexual assault, child endangerment and prostitution set to begin on
Monday Jan. 31.
— From 1996 through 2008, Venable sexually assaulted children between 13- and 16-years old.
• November 22, 2010- Newark
— Reported on November 22, 2010, by The Associated Press
— A man who ran a prostitution business that operated in several New Jersey cities has been
sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
— Thirty-seven-year-old Kasiem Brown of Newark had pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and
conspiring to deal firearms without a license.
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— Brown admitted recruiting and transporting seven minor girls and nine adult women to
engage in prostitution at private parties and strip clubs. The ring operated in Newark,
Irvington, Elizabeth and Atlantic City.
• November 4-6, 2010 - Newark
— Reported on November 9, 2010 The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk
— Sixteen people were arrested by the FBI and local police in New Jersey in the past week as
part of a three-day nationwide crackdown on child prostitution, according to the bureau's
Newark office
— "Operation Cross Country V,” began on Thursday, when Newark police arrested six
prostitutes and two pimps. Two missing children were also recovered
— The crime of child prostitution is among the most disturbing and heinous offenses law
enforcement can investigate," said Michael B. Ward, Special Agent in charge of the FBI's
Newark division
— Nationwide, Operation Cross Country V netted more than 800 arrests, including 99 pimps,
across 40 cities. Sixty-nine children were recovered across the country.
• November 5, 2010 – Hudson
— Reported on November 8, 2010, by E. Assata Wright of Hudson Reporter
— Six people from New York and New Jersey were arrested Friday in a prostitution sting,
according to the Secaucus Police Department
— Five women and one man at a Secaucus hotel for alleged crimes ranging from prostitution to
promoting prostitution and hindering arrest
— Kai Song, 42, Yong Di Murphy, 41, and Wang Zilam, 40, all of Queens, N.Y.; Xue Bai, 25, of
Flushing, N.Y.; Tionna B. Williams, 21, of Jersey City; and Meillsa Alvarez, 27, of Paterson
— Law enforcement became aware of the alleged crimes through a website that advertises
“adult services” and in local newspapers
• September 2, 2010 – Atlantic City
- Reported September 2, 2010 by Lynda Cohen of Press of Atlantic City
- A grand jury reindicted four northern New Jersey men accused of human trafficking and other
offenses for allegedly forcing two women - including a teenager - into prostitution in Atlantic
City.
- Malik Canty, 30, Felix Nunez, 32, Cedric Crews, 35, and Daryl Baskerville, 29, all of Essex
and Union counties, are accused of transporting the women - ages 22 and 16 - from
Elizabeth, Union County, to Atlantic City on July 21, 2009, using physical restraint and threats
of bodily harm.
• August 19, 2010 – Atlantic City
— Reported August 19, 2010 by John Barna of Glouchester County Times.
— Javon Gordon, 28, a.k.a. “Teflon,” of Atlantic City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge
Robert B. Kugler to two counts of transporting minors across state lines to work as prostitutes
for him.
— Gordon admitted that from September 2007 until July 2008, he operated a prostitution
enterprise in and around Atlantic City.
— Gordon acted as a “pimp,” employing both minor girls and adult women to work for him as
prostitutes.
— Gordon also admitted to traveling from the Atlantic City area to Philadelphia in order to pick
up a minor girl and bring her back to Atlantic City to work as a prostitute.
• August 15, 2010 – Trenton
— Reported August 15, 2010 by WABC-TV- New York.
— It's been nearly five months since police said a 7-year-old Trenton girl was sold for sex by her
15-year-old sister and gang-raped in a vacant apartment.
— Prosecutors are not trying the kids as adults, as they initially planned.
— Prosecutors offered the juveniles’ plea deals to testify against the adults.
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New Mexico
• July 14, 2011- Albuquerque*
— Reported on July 14, 2011, by Cristina Rodda of KOB Eyewitness News 4
— Thirty-two-year old Dante Mckay is facing several charges including promoting prostitution
and human trafficking.
— Police say that on Tuesday, one of their undercover officers contacted a girl listed on the
website "Backpage" and the two agreed to meet at a Northeast Albuquerque hotel for sex.
— Once inside the room, the girl took nearly $200 from the plainclothes officers and explained
what sexual activity she was willing to do. Police then took her into custody, and took her to
juvenile detention because she is 17 years old.
• July 29, 2010 – Albuquerque
— Reported July 29, 2010 by KOAT.com.
— Justin Grills was arrested for kidnapping a teenager and forcing her into prostitution.
— Grills’ girlfriend, Elizabeth Gade is facing similar charges.
— Grills locked the girl in a closet and she was only able to escape after Grills went to the
airport.
New York
• June 30, 2011- Brooklyn
— Reported on June 30, 2011, by Casey Glynn of CBS/AP
— Four Brooklyn men were arrested and charged Wednesday with the sex trafficking and rape
of a young New York woman who stepped forward after eight years of alleged abuse.
— Damien Crooks, Darrell Dula, Jamali Brockett and his brother Jawara Brockett were all
accused of raping the now 20-year-old woman and forcing her into prostitution through
intimidation for an eight year period, reports CBS station WCBS.
— Alleged ringleader Crooks reportedly first met the girl and raped her in a neighborhood park.
The victim says she was only 13 at the time of the first assault.
— Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes says the suspects intimidated her into silence, then
forced her to have sex for money and repeatedly beat and raped her.
— Reported on June 29, 2011, by Mary Murphy of WSBT.com
• May 13, 2011- Brooklyn
— Reported on May 13, 2011, by Reuters
— A couple accused of forcing a teenage mother, 17, into prostitution and beating her infant son
to death have been sentenced in Brooklyn federal court.
— Domingo Salazar received 30 years in jail, while his wife, Norma Mendez, received 68
months stemming from their guilty pleas last year to federal charges of sex trafficking of a
minor
• May 2, 2011- New York
— Reported on May 2, 2011, by Mike Jaccarino of NY Daily News
— It's been seven months since an 11-year-old vanished from her Bronx home for five days -
but horrific details of how she was turned into a sex slave are just emerging.
— Lured from home by a sexual predator, the fifth-grader was pimped out to a series of men in
a lower East Side flat.
— There are very few cases that involve someone as young as 10 or 11 years old, but on the
flip side, once they hit 13, there are thousands of cases like that.
• April 14, 2011- Brooklyn
— Reported on April 14, 2011, by the FBI
— William Johnson, also known as “Dollar Bill,” pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor
between August 2010 and September 2010.
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— When sentenced, the defendant faces a minimum of 10 years’ imprisonment and a maximum
of life imprisonment, as well as forfeiture of his residence and other property used in the
commission of his criminal conduct.
— At today’s proceeding, the defendant admitted to harboring a 15-year-old girl in his home in
St. Albans, Queens, between August and September 2010, and having the victim work for
him as a prostitute.
• March 14, 2011- Syracuse*
— Reported on March 14, 2011, by WSYR-TV
— Classified ads on a website called Backpage.com can be provocative, offering less than
reputable companionship. Police, however, can't make an arrest based solely on those
advertisements.
— A quick look under backpage.com's adult escort section for Syracuse shows countless
postings from women, some as young as 18.
— Syracuse Police say they've made some arrests relating to backpage.com ads, based on
complaints. Just recently, police in the Binghamton-area arrested five people for prostitution
from the site. One of them was just 15-years-old.
• March 11, 2011- Binghamton*
— Reported on March 11, 2011, by Darren Dodge of WBNG Binghamton
— Five people are under arrest after a prostitution sting over the internet: The Broome County
Special Investigations Unit Task Force ran an internet prostitution sting using the website
Backpage.com
— Mary C. Hayhurst, 35, of Binghamton, Charise M. Shaw, 29, of Binghamton, Deana A.
Olmstead, 21, of Windsor, an unnamed 31 year old female from Binghamton, and Jessica A.
Bennett, 18, of Binghamton were all arrested and charged with One Count of Prostitution.
— Bennett also faces a Count of Endangering the welfare of a child because she brought a 15
year old female to the motel who was also taking part in the prostitution activities under
Bennett's direction.
• February 9, 2011- New York*
— Reported on February 7, 2011, by Christina Carrega of New York Post
— The first person in New York State to be indicted for sex trafficking was sentenced on
February 7 after pleading guilty
— Woodley Gaston, 25 of South Ozone Park began his three to nine year sentence for pimping
three teenage girls (16,16,18) and using Craigslist to advertise sexually explicit photographs
of two of the victims to attract customers.
— Previously reported on January 28, 2011 by YourNabe.com: Woodley Gaston was first
charged in 2007 with advancing and profiting from the prostitution of a 16-year-old girl and
again in 2008 with forcing another 16-year-old girl into prostitution and a third time last year
for prostituting an 18-year-old girl to repay a debt.
— Previously reported on January 19, 2011, by The Associated Press: Woodley Gaston
faces three to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to sex trafficking and other crimes
including promoting prostitution and rape.
• January 26, 2011- Brooklyn*
— Reported on January 26, 2011, by Liz Robbins and Noah Rosenberg of New York Times
— Two men have been indicted for forcing at least two teenage girls to become prostitutes and
to advertise their services on Craigslist and Backpage.com, the Brooklyn district attorney,
Charles J. Hynes, announced Wednesday.
— Arctic Rogers, 25, and Treymaine Songster, 26, both of Brooklyn, were charged with sex
trafficking, kidnapping, rape, promoting a sexual performance by a child, and torturing and
injuring animals
— Rogers, known as “Scooby Da Don,” was arraigned late Wednesday with a $10 million bail
and protection over for the victims
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— The two victims in this case were 15 and 17, and the men used “threats, intimidation and
beatings” to force them to have sex for money with clients who responded to advertisements
online
• January 17, 2011
— Reported on January 17, 2011, by Deborah Richardson for the Huffington Post
— In a courthouse in New York, former NFL star Lawrence Taylor pleaded guilty to sexual
misconduct and paying a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim for sex. In return, the ex-linebacker
received a misdemeanor charge that carries no jail time though he will be put on probation
and a sex offender list.
— Criminals that feed demand and harm our children should face harsh penalties equal to the
harsh and unimaginable abuse child sex trafficking victims suffer.
— The 16-year-old girl Taylor abused is one of up to 300,000 children trafficked for sex in
America every year.
— We need to send a clear message to prosecutors and judges that trafficking would not
continue to flourish if we held the buyers more accountable.
— Previously reported on January 13, 2011, by The Associated Press
— Previously reported on May 6, 2010, by the New York Times.: Lawrence Taylor was
arrested early in the morning for allegedly paying $300 for sex with a 16-year-old at a local
hotel and was charged with third-degree rape and soliciting prostitution. She was brought to
the hotel room by Rasheed Davis, a sex trafficker. He was also arrested and charged with
Sex Trafficking of a Minor, parole violations and other violations.
• June 2, 2010 – Brooklyn*
— Reported June 2, 2010, by William Sherman of the New York Daily News.
— Bloods gang members arrested for running four, separate prostitution rings involving
underage girls, including numerous 15-year-olds.
— Girls were beaten and deprived of food if they made less than $500 a day selling their bodies.
— The girls were listed on Craigslist, Backpage and other Internet sites
— Eight alleged traffickers face up to 25 years in prison each, if convicted.
• April 20, 2010 – New York City
— Reported April 20, 2010, by Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times.
— Indictment was unsealed April 20 accusing 14 members and associates of the Gambino
family of an assortment of crimes
— One of the crimes listed in the indictment was setting up a sex trafficking network on the
Internet in the New York area. All the girls were under 20 years old, and one was 15.
— Act described by Preet Bahara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, as “a
new low for the Gambino family.”
North Carolina
• October 5, 2010 – Durham
- Reported October 6, 2010, by Jesse DeConto of The News & Observer
- A grand jury has indicted Ivan Cervantes Damian on charges he held a 15-year-old girl
captive for more than 18 months and forced her to have sex.
- Damian, 30, faces charges of first-degree statutory sex offense, human trafficking and forcing
a child into sexual servitude.
- Authorities accuse Damian of having sex with the teenage girl between December 2008 and
August 2009. They also accuse him of holding the victim in servitude from December 2008 to
July 2010.
• August 20, 2010 – Asheville
— Reported August 23, 2010 by The Citizen-Times.
— Michael Forrest Grant, 43, of Countryside Estates, Barnardsville, was arrested for attempting
to “facilitate a minor to participate in prostitution.
— Grant was released on $10,000 bond.
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• August 11, 2010 – Fayetteville
— Written August 11, 2010 by News 14 Carolina.
— Antoinette Davis is scheduled to be in court Wednesday morning.
— She is accused of prostituting her five-year-old daughter.
— Davis is charged with human trafficking, felony child abuse, prostitution and filing a false
police report.
— Last November, Davis reported her daughter Shaniya as missing. Her body was found a few
days later in a ditch in Lee County.
Ohio
• July 18, 2011- Cleveland
— Reported on July 24, 2011, by Paul Kiska of NewsNet5.com
— The FBI arrested a 40-year-old Cleveland woman last week on sex trafficking charges
stemming from crimes allegedly involving a 16-year-old girl.
— Pearline Richardson was arrested on July 14, and she is due in federal court Monday
afternoon to face child sex trafficking charges.
— Agents said three adult women and the 16-year-old girl were victims of forced prostitution.
• June 3, 2011- Elyria*
— Reported on June 3, 2011, by Brad Dicken of The Chronicle-Telegram
— A 42-year-old Elyria man is facing a federal charge accusing him of forcing a 16-year-old girl
to work as a prostitute.
— Timothy “Jhon” Davis was arrested during a raid on his Bell Court home on Wednesday by
FBI agents and other members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
— According to an affidavit filed in federal court by FBI Special Agent Timothy Kolonick, he and
other task force members saw a photo of a girl they knew to be younger than the age of 18
on the classifieds website Backpage.com.
— Davis could get 10 years to life in federal prison if convicted of sex trafficking of children.
— Reported on June 2, 2011, by Eliza Amigo of Fox 8 Cleveland
• May 5, 2011- Toledo*
— Reported on May 5, 2011, by Brian Schwartz of Toledo on the Move
— Roy “Lucky” Calhoun, 28, of Toledo is in the Lucas County Jail, awaiting trial on charges of
recruiting females -- including minors -- and forcing them to work as prostitutes.
— On Thursday, U.S. District Attorney Scott M. Dettelbach added charges of distributing drugs
and intimidating witnesses.
— Calhoun was arrested in November 2010 and accused of recruiting women to work as
prostitutes between 2007 and 2010. Calhoun would beat and assault the females who
worked for him and threatened those who left or attempted to quit working prostitutes
— Previously reported on November 9, 2010 by Toledo Blade: Two teen victims of
prostitution were rescued in northwest Ohio and five area residents were indicted on charges
that they trafficked minors in the sex trade. Roy D. Calhoun, 27; Marissa M. Mayers, 21; and
Damien J. Harris, 22, all of Toledo, have all been charged with sex trafficking of a minor,
conspiracy, transportation of a minor and coercion and enticement. Brandon M. Robinson,
27, and Anniesha N. Whitt, 24, have also been charged with sex trafficking of a minor and
transportation of a minor. The victims, including minors, were recruited into prostitution from
2007 through 2010, enticed by advertisements posted on Craigslist and were brought on to
engage in sex acts at Toledo-area hotels
• April 4, 2011- Toledo
— Reported on April 4, 2011, by Erica Blake of The Toledo Blade
— Prostitution Offender Program of Lucas County, or John School, is for men charged with
soliciting prostitutes.
— Those who complete the program can have the record of their offense sealed
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— The focus was on Ohio — particularly Toledo — in 2005 when a federal sting in Harrisburg,
Pa., broke up a sex-trafficking operation involving 177 girls and women. Seventy-seven of the
victims, including a 10-year-old, were from the Toledo area.
— John School is a way to address the demand side of the issue
• November 30, 2010- Marietta
— Reported on November 30, 2010, by Brad Bauer of Marietta Times
— Sentenced eight years ago for sex crimes against children and adolescents and other crimes
involving pornography, prostitution and the Internet, former Marietta College professor
Eugene Robert Anderson found himself back before a Washington County judge Monday for
a resentencing.
— In 2002, Washington County Common Pleas Judge Susan Boyer sentenced Anderson, 60, of
Parkersburg, to approximately 88 years in prison after he was found guilty of 108 felony
counts, including pandering obscenity involving a minor, promoting prostitution, unauthorized
use of property, pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, illegal use of a minor in
nudity-oriented material and corruption of a minor.
— After hearing Anderson's comments, Boyer sentenced the man to serve virtually the same
sentence as she imposed in 2002, a range of approximately 80 to 95 years.
• November 4-6, 2010 - Cleveland
— Reported on November 8, 2010 in the LA Times by Dave Nethers of Fox 8 News
— The FBI along with local police and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office have made 80
arrests in the Cleveland area alone targeting prostitution, trying to identify and recover
children who have been sold into human trafficking
— FBI Special Agent Scott Wilson says the effort has been an annual operation by federal
agents, who nationwide have arrested 99 pimps, with more than 600 other adults involved in
prostitution activities
— Recent sweeps have recovered two juveniles in Toledo, where more than 60 children have
been recovered in recent years, after they were sold into a life of prostitution
— The FBI identifies one of the pimps as 33-year-old Andre O'Bello who faces multiple charges
that include rape, kidnapping and compelling prostitution
• September 8, 2010 – Bellaire
- Reported September 8, 2010 by WTRF.com
- The Cadiz mother charged with compelling prostitution of children was in Eastern Division
Court for a preliminary hearing, but the hearing did not take place.
- Authorities said they've discovered that the case is "multi-jurisdictional," having allegedly
taken place in several different areas.
- U.S. Marshals picked up the 32-year-old mother from the Belmont County Jail and took her
into federal custody.
- He said the case now will go forward in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
• August 16, 2010 – Toledo
- Reported August 30, 2010 by Kristi Leigh of Fox Toledo News.
- Mark A. Fetter, 27, is facing two sex trafficking charges and one charge of obstruction.
- FBI agents say he was forcing a developmentally delayed teenager to prostitute herself.
- Fetter was forcing the 17-year-old girl to have sex at the Sunset Motel on Telegraph Road
and he was recruiting clients at area bars.
- A confidential informant told police that she witnessed several men outside of a room waiting
their turn to have sex with the girl.
• August 10,2010 – Mechanicsburg
— Written August 12, 2010 by Craig Shirk of the Urbana Daily Citizen.
— Michael Allen Blackburn, 48, was arraigned in Hardin County Common Pleas Court on
August 10, 2010.
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— Blackburn has been indicted on counts of compelling prostitution, attempted unlawful sexual
conduct with a minor, disseminating matter harmful to a juvenile, two counts of importuning,
and possessing criminal tools with a specification.
— He pled not guilty to every count.
• August 2, 2010 – Evanston
— Reported August 3, 2010, by Jennifer Baker of The Enquirer.
— Shara Crawford, 28, was arrested for compelling prostitution of a minor under the age of 16.
— Crawford paid the minor child to engage in sexual conduct with another minor on August 1,
2010.
• June 18, 2010 – Brilliant
— Reported June 18, 2010, by Associated Press, published in Chillicothe Gazette in Chillicothe,
Ohio among other newspapers.
— A mother sold her 14-year-old daughter’s body for money and crack cocaine.
— Police believe the trafficking had been going on for four years.
— 21-year-old man living with the mom and daughter claimed he was allowed to have sex with
the daughter and the mother demanded money
— The mother is being charged with Compelling Prostitution of a Minor and Complicity to
Unlawful Sexual Conduct with a Minor.
Oregon
• June 6, 2011- Portland
— Reported on June 6, 2011, by Chuck Neubauer of The Washington Times
— A federal judge in Oregon on Friday sentenced 39-year-old James Albert Jackson to 40 years
in prison for taking a 15 year old girl from Seattle and forcing her with beatings to work as a
prostitute in Portland.
— U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman in Portland handed James Albert Jackson the
sentence sought by prosecutors after Jackson pleaded guilty in March to sex trafficking a
minor through force, fraud and coercion. Jackson also was sentenced to five years of
supervised release.
• May 7, 2011- Portland
— Reported on May 7, 2011, by Mike Benner and Jeff Thompson of KTVB.com
— Portland police are investigating an alleged case of human trafficking of a 15 year old girl at a
North Portland motel.
— Police arrested Rashad Quentel Sanders--also known as Rashad Quentel Richmond--for
compelling and promoting prostitution.
— The girl was taken to an area hospital for treatment, but authorities believe her mental
recovery may take much longer.
• March 8, 2011- Lane County*
— Reported on March 8, 2011, by Stacey Barchenger of Statesman Journal
— A pimp in a human-trafficking operation involving a runaway girl from Eugene has been
sentenced to more than five years in prison.
— John Francis Gentile, 39, was sentenced in February to 5.5 years in prison on eight sexcrime
convictions involving a 17-year-old girl and attempted assault of a man in a dispute
about the girl.
— Curtis Bunch of Monmouth had taken photographs of the girl naked and then posted an ad
prostituting her on Craigslist, a classified advertising website
— Bunch was charged with compelling prostitution and encouraging child sexual abuse. His
case is ongoing in Marion County and is scheduled for trial March 22.
— Previously reported November 4, 2010 by The Statesman Journal
— Previously reported on October 25, 2010, by Salem-News.com: 48-year old Curtis Bunch
and a 38-year old John Gentile were arrested early Saturday morning on multiple charges
related to assault, prostitution and the sexual assault of a juvenile female. Gentile was taken
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into custody with charges of Attempted Assault in the Second Degree, Unlawful Use of a
Weapon, three counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree and three
counts of Possession of Child Pornography in the First Degree. Bunch was taken into
custody with charges of Prostitution, Compelling Prostitution and Encouraging Child Sexual
Abuse in the First Degree
• November 4-6, 2010 – Portland
— Reported on November 8, 2010 by Fox 12 Oregon
— Three girls victimized by human traffickers were rescued by FBI agents during a three-day
sting operation in the Portland area
— The sting, which lasted from Thursday to Sunday, was part of a local and national crackdown
on human trafficking called Operation Cross Country 5, marking the fifth national law
enforcement action against child sex trafficking
— The girls recovered during the operation were interviewed and assessed for counseling,
medical assistance and possible housing needs
— The FBI said the operation has recovered 69 children nationally
— The Portland City Council will vote on a resolution Wednesday morning to dedicate $285,000
to create a shelter for child trafficking victims, as well as to fund
• October 25, 2010 – Tacoma*
— Reported on October 26, 2010, by John de Leon of the Seattle Times
— A former army sergeant based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Monday in U.S.
District Court in Tacoma to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child and attempted sex
trafficking of a child
— Sterling Hospedales, 26, pleaded guilty to the charges in July
— The investigation began in April 2009 when Lakewood police were alerted to a juvenile
runaway from the Seattle area who was posting ads on Craigslist indicating she was a
prostitute.
• June 21, 2010 – Portland*
— Reported June 22, 2010, by Lynne Terry of The Oregonian in Portland, Ore.
— Donnico T. Johnson, 39-year-old Seattle resident, was sentenced to nearly 15 years in prison
after pleading guilty in March to Sex Trafficking of a Minor.
— Forced a 15-year-old to post ads on Craigslist and drove her to “meetings” in the fall of
2008.
• August 16, 2010 – Portland
— Reported August 16, 2010 by The Oregonian.
— Jefferson Bryant Davis, 22, faces federal sex-trafficking charges for allegedly transporting a
13-year old girl to three other states where he forced her into prostitution and beat her when
she resisted.
— Davis transported the girl from Portland to Washington, California and Nevada with the intent
that she engage in prostitution.
Pennsylvania
• December 2, 2010- Chambersburg
— Reported on December 2, 2010, by Jim Tuttle of Public Opinion
— Gregory Ramos, 52, now of Wilmington, Del., entered the plea of not guilty in Franklin County
Court on Wednesday during his arraignment on charges of sexual exploitation of children,
corruption of minors and promoting prostitution.
— Candy Hubbard, his co-defendant, was arrested in August 2008 and found guilty of sexual
exploitation of children, promoting prostitution, owning a house of prostitution, and corruption
of minors.
— The defense received discovery documents Wednesday and is now familiarizing itself with
the case. Ramos is scheduled for trial in March. In the meantime, he is free on $50,000
unsecured bail.
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• July 28, 2010 – Berks County*
— Reported July 29, 2010, by Jason A. Kahl of the Reading Eagle
— Paul S. Sewell, 44, arrested for running an Internet-based escort service
— Craigslist and Facebook named specifically
— Some women were arrested, but girls as young as 12 were involved.
— Previously reported November 10, 2010 by Reading Eagle: Paul S. Sewell, 45, and
Michael Johnson, 40, were indicted by a Philadelphia federal grand jury and face possible life
sentences for sex trafficking charges.
• March 12, 2008 – Harrisburg
— Reported March 12, 2008, by U.S. Attorney Martin C. Carlson in a press release for the U.S.
Department of Justice’s Middle District of Pennsylvania.
— Former Pennsylvania State Trooper Kevin J. Coleman provided inside information to pimps
about police strategy to combat prostitution in exchange for sexual favors from young girls
being prostituted at local truck stops.
— “Charged with obstructing and impeding the due administration of justice while serving in the
Pennsylvania State Police, an offense carrying up to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of up
to $250,000.”
Rhode Island
• December 29, 2010- Providence
— Reported on December 29, 2010, by Associated Press and reported in Wall Street Journal
— Two New York men accused of enslaving teenagers and forcing them into prostitution have
pleaded not guilty in a Providence court.
— The Providence Journal reports Andy Fakhoury and Joseph Defeis, both 23 of Yonkers, N.Y.,
are the first to be prosecuted for human trafficking since the state closed a loophole and
made indoor prostitution illegal.
— Defeis and Fakhoury brought a 16-year-old girl to Rhode Island to work as a prostitute
between 2007 and 2009. Police also say Fakhoury raped a 19-year-old and forced her into
prostitution from July through mid-October.
— Fakhoury is being held without bail. Defeis remains out on $10,000 surety posted in
November.
— Previously reported on November 15, 2010 by The Providence Journal: Fakhoury is
being held without bail after waiving his right to a bail hearing and Defeis was charged with
trafficking and involuntary servitude and released on $10,000 surety on Nov. 5
South Carolina
• June 28, 2010 – Horry County
— Reported June 28, 2010, by WMBF
— A relative of the 12-year-old girl reported missing has been charged with prostitution of a
child among other charges Thursday, according to the Horry County Police Department.
— Lt. Jamie DeBari with Horry County Police says the little girl was found Wednesday
afternoon at approximately 1 p.m. in the area of Highway 22 and Robert Edge Parkway in
the North Myrtle Beach Section of Horry County.
— HCPD arrested Danny Dewayne Hardee, 25; Robbie Jean Blankenship, 43.
— Chad Michael Jacobs, 25, of Conway and Clarence Davis Jr., 71 also of Conway are facing
charges of accessory after the fact.
• Weekend starting April 9, 2010 – Columbia
— Reported April 14, 2010, by Noelle Phillips of The State in Columbia, S.C.
— Police arrested 24 in a prostitution sting over the weekend.
— One of those arrested was 16-years-old, but it was not mentioned whether it was a john or
victim.
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South Dakota
• April 15, 2011- Tea
— Reported on April 15, 2011, by Krystle Kacner of KDLT News
— Friday morning 27-year-old Brandon Thompson received his sentence of life in prison for sex
trafficking and trying to hire someone to kill a possible witness.
— Instead of giving Thompson 30 years or less per the recommendation in the plea agreement,
Judge Karen Schreier sentenced him to life behind bars, for operating an online prostitution
ring out of this home in Tea, with underage girls in 2009.
— Previously reported February 26, 2011 by Associated Press: Two people accused in a
South Dakota sex trafficking ring sentenced for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Joshua
Payer receives 22 months and Megan Hayes one year in prison.
— Previously reported November 17, 2010 by Sioux City Journal: Thompson pleaded guilty
to one count of sex trafficking of a child and one count of solicitation to murder a federal
witness. Thompson advertised the prostitution services on a website, Backpage.com.
Megan Marie Hayes conspired with Thompson to harbor, transport, and maintain an
underage person to engage in a commercial sex act.
— Previously reported November 10, 2010 by Argus Leader: Former Sioux Falls emergency
room doctor Joshua Payer, 36, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and drug dealing today in
federal court. He was accused of paying for sex with several teen girls through an alleged
prostitution ring run by Tea resident named Brandon Thompson.
— Payer’s arrest previously reported November 2, 2010 and September 30, 2010 in Argus
Leader.
— Hayes and Thompson arrests initially reported December 21, 2009 in The Rapid City
Journal. Megan Hayes, 30, and her boyfriend Brandon Quincy Thompson, 26, were arrested
for using the online classified Web site Backpage.com to sell the prostitution services of
underage girls.
• February 15, 2011- Sioux Falls*
— Reported on February 15, 2011, by Ben Dunsmoor of Keloland.com
— Three men face federal sex trafficking charges after officials caught them in an undercover
sex sting in Sioux Falls.
— 'Operation Crossing Guard' led to the arrests of 53-year-old Ronald Bonestroo and 31-yearold
Jeffrey Krogman, both from Sioux Falls. Forty-year-old Daron Jungers is from Sioux City.
— Three advertisements were posted on Craigslist and Backpage.com that led to the arrests,
advertising a 14 year old and 11 year old girl
— All of the men face a maximum sentence of life in prison if found guilty.
— Also reported by Associated Press
• August 2, 2010 – Sioux Falls
— Reported August 2, 2010, by Melissa Payne of KDLT.
— Autumn Dubray, 24, was arrested for promoting prostitution of a minor.
— Dubray had made a comment that she wanted the juvenile to have sex with men for money.
— She also brought over five men to the apartment, and told the 17-year-old she had to have
sex with one of them, and if she didn't, she would be kicked out, and would have nowhere to
live.
Tennessee
• July 3, 2011- Memphis
— Reported on July 3, 2011, by The Associated Press
— The trial of a 52-year-old man on charges of commercial sex trafficking involving a teen and
two women is set for Aug. 1 in federal court in Memphis.
— Federal prosecutors say Charles Kizer served as a pimp and kept a hatchet under his car
seat in case any of the women he controlled got out of line.
— Kizer's federal public defender, Randy Alden, said told The Commercial Appeal that his client
has pleaded not guilty.
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• June 30, 2011- Nashville
— Reported on June 30, 2011, by The Associated Press
— A Nashville woman has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for sex trafficking
four underage girls.
— 47-year old Teresa Ann West operated an illegal prostitution business in Nashville and
Pigeon Forge for a number of years.
— One of the teenagers she employed was a 17-year old homeless girl, whom she promised to
help. Instead, West worked her as a prostitute and introduced her to crack cocaine.
— West pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Nashville
and will serve ten years of supervised release and will have to register as a sex offender and
participate in treatment.
• June 21, 2011- Memphis
— Reported on June 21, 2011, by Beth Warren of The Commercial Appeal
— Memphis native Terrence Arnett Yarbrough, 35, reigned over a dozen teens and women with
intimidation and extreme violence, federal prosecutors say.
— Yarbrough, 35, insists he is innocent on charges of running a national, human sex-trafficking
ring. He told U.S. Dist. Judge S. Thomas Anderson he wanted to represent himself because
he has already been through five lawyers he described as incompetent or unethical.
— In August, a federal grand jury indicted Yarbrough on 14 counts, including child sex trafficking
of four teens and sex trafficking of eight women by force, fraud and coercion from 2006 to
2009.
• June 9, 2011- Memphis
— Reported on June 13, 2011, by Lynn Lampkin of My Fox Memphis
— 24-year old Justin Parson was arrested Wednesday for pimping his 14-year old stepdaughter.
— Tuesday, officers spotted the teen along Lamar Avenue, a known area for prostitution. We're
told cops noticed the 14-year old flagging down cars soliciting sex. When questioned, she
told officers her step-dad forced her to sell her body for $45 to $50 for each encounter.
• April 22, 2011- Nashville*
— Reported on April 22, 2011, by Clarksville Online
— Thomas Hufford and Micah Toland were arrested on April 16 th by TBI agents for exploiting
minors and promoting prostitution
— The case began in February of 2010 when agents received information that an underage girl
was advertised as a prostitute on Backpage.com.
— Reported on April 22, 2011 by Brian Haas of The Tennessean
• March 23, 2011- Lewisburg
— Reported on March 23, 2011, by Marshall County Tribune
— Mark J. Suchan of Lewisburg was arrested last week and charged with solicitation of a minor,
city police reported after a two-month investigation.
— During the operation Suchan had requested a person to arrange the purchase of a child, age
12 or under, for the purpose of sex. As a result of the operation a search warrant for Suchan's
residence was also obtained and served on Thursday.
— Suchan's bond was set at $30,000. He's due in Marshall County General Sessions Court
date on April 5.
• January 20, 2011- Smyrna
— Reported on January 20, 2011, by Nancy Amons of WSMV.com
— A Smyrna man is accused of selling a minor for sex, and now police are looking for more
victims of his enterprise.
— On the Internet, the man went by the screen name "Rudy" or "Juan," but police said his real
name is William Bradley Lee, and he is now charged with selling sex with a 16-year-old girl.
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— Police said Lee had other women working for him in Rutherford, Davidson and Marshall
counties.
— Lee was taken into custody Jan. 16 at the Northgate Apartments in Lewisburg, Tenn. A $1.5
million bond was set for Lee, who is being held at the Rutherford County Sheriff's Detention
Center.
• December 9, 2010- Columbia
— Reported on December 20, 2010, by The Daily Herald
— Maury County authorities have arrested a Columbia woman accused of advertising sex
services by a juvenile.
— Amanda Thompson, 20, 109 2nd Ave., Apt. C, Columbia, is charged with especially
aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, promoting prostitution and solicitation to commit
statutory rape. She was arrested Dec. 9.
— Thompson advertised the juvenile’s services on the internet.
— This investigation coincided with the arrest of two men, Nathaniel and Tavoris Roberts, who
along with Patrick Bullock, Sherman Aiden and Johnny Turrentine, face federal charges for
allegedly running a prostitution ring out of Columbia.
— Thompson was released from custody after posting $40,000 bond
• November 14, 2010 – Nashville
— Reported on November 14, 2010, by Erin Quinn of The Tennessean
— Victim of sex trafficking at age 10, Christine, now 29, was not surprised when federal
investigators in Nashville announced that four teenage girls were rescued from a multistate
sex trafficking ring
— 58 pages of court documents on the case don't answer many questions about the four young
teenage girls who officials say were repeatedly sold for sex by Somali gang members in
Nashville motels and apartments
— The girls probably were first arrested on prostitution charges and taken to jail until
investigators could sort out the victims from their captors
• October 1, 2010 – Nashville
- Written October 1, 2010, by Deanna Lambert of Channel 4 News
- Tennessee authorities say that a Somali gang forces women into prostitution and then moves
them across state lines.
- The gang is based in Minnesota and they trafficked a 15 year old girl from Minnesota to
Tennessee.
- The girl has a long history as being a runaway, but the warrant spells out that she was also
being victimized by a group of Somalia men who were promoting her into prostitution.
• August 30, 2010 – Nashville*
- Reported August 31, 2010 by Nicole Young of The Tennessean.
- Tyree Walker, 36, was arrested in the parking lot of an Elm Hill Pike hotel after undercover
detectives responded to an Internet escort ad he placed on Backpage.com promoting two
17-year-old girls.
- After the teens agreed to perform sex acts for money, they were both taken into custody.
- Both girls, who are from Macon, Ga., and Norfolk, Va., are charged in Juvenile Court with
prostitution.
• June 24, 2010 – Memphis
— Reported June 24, 2010 by The Daily News Journal.
— Leonard Fox, 43, plead guilty to forcing girls, some as young as 13, to engage in commercial
sex acts for his financial benefit.
— Fox was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for forcing young girls into child prostitution.
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Texas
• July 6, 2011- Houston*
— Reported on July 6, 2011, by khou.com
— 25-year-old Valencia Nakia Bailey was behind bars Wednesday, accused of forcing a
teenager into a life of prostitution.
— The 16 year old victim said Bailey would put sex ads with her picture on backpage.com.
— Bailey was arrested on Tuesday and was being held on $20,000 bond.
• June 23, 2011- Lubbock
— Reported on June 23, 2011, by James Clark of KCBD.com
— A Lubbock man accused of participating in a child sex trafficking ring, Chanze Lamount
Pringler, 25, pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon.
— He and his co-defendant, Megan Lee Norman, 19, were arrested back in March during a
Lubbock Police sting operation and were accused of coercing an underage girl into
prostitution.
— Pringler and Norman will be in court next week for the judge to decide if they can bond out of
jail before trial.
— Previously reported on June 1, 2011, by Avalanche-Journal: A federal grand jury
Wednesday handed down a three-count indictment charging Chanze Lamount Pringler, 25,
and Megan Lee Norman, 19, with perpetrating a child sex-trafficking conspiracy.
— Previously reported on April 1, 2011, by Avalanche-Journal: Norman and Pringler were
arrested in an undercover sex trafficking sting operation and booked into the Lubbock County
Jail on multiple prostitution-related charges. The 16-year-old victim was taken to the Lubbock
County Juvenile Justice Center (and has since been released to Child Protective Services).
• May 6, 2011- Midland*
— Reported on May 6, 2011, by Audrie Palmer of Midland Reporter-Telegram
— Jay Lavone Lloyd, 40, pleaded guilty to a trafficking of a persons charge Thursday before a
Midland judge and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
— He was originally arrested October 22 after an undercover prostitution sting revealed that he
was prostituting a 17 year old girl.
— Midland County Sheriff's Office investigators had set up the sting after learning about the
escort service, Doll House Mates, through a solicitation on Backpage.com, a website similar
to Craigslist where people can post services and want ads.
— Lloyd has been held in the Midland County Jail on a $500,000 bond since his arrest.
— Previously reported on October 25, 2010, by Abby Reed of NewsWest 9: Lloyd and
Thomas were arrested during an undercover sting operation and face charges with human
trafficking and compelling prostitution and could serve life if convicted. They remain in jail with
$250,000 bonds for each charge
• April 14, 2011- Rio Grande City
— Reported on April 14, 2011, by Jared Taylor of The Monitor
— Federal agents arrested a fourth man the day after an indictment against three others in a
teen sex trafficking case was unsealed in federal court.
— Antonio Martinez Villarreal, 38, joins Juan Antonio Garcia Garay, 31, Juan Ignacio Chavarria,
25, and Jorge Eutacio Martinez Mendoza, 46, indicted on human trafficking and smuggling
charges
— The victim was a 13 year old girl
• March 3, 2011- Austin
— Reported on March 3, 2011, by Enrique Rangel of Lubbock Online
— In mid-February, nearly two weeks after the city of Arlington hosted the 2011 Super Bowl,
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said federal, state and local authorities succeeded in
cracking down on sex traffickers, netting 133 arrests.
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— But two groups fighting to end what they call modern-day slavery say the state’s efforts are
not good enough, particularly when it comes to protecting underage girls, some as young as
9.
— Houston-based Children at Risk and Shared Hope International of Vancouver, Wash., give
the state a “C” for its fight against child trafficking.
• March 2, 2011- Fort Worth
— Reported on March 2, 2011, by Deanna Boyd of Star-Telegram
— A 20-year-old man remained in jail Wednesday, accused of forcing a 13-year-old girl into
prostitution under the threat that he would take her to Mexico and kill her family if she
refused.
— Jose Marcos Vasquez was arrested by Fort Worth police fugitive officers in Arlington
Tuesday night on a warrant for trafficking a person under the age of 14, a first-degree felony.
Bond on the warrant was set at $1 million bond.
— The case will be reviewed by the U.S. Attorney's office for possible federal charges.
• February 28, 2011- Fort Worth
— Reported on February 28, 2011, by Deanna Boyd of Star-Telegram
— A man and woman were in jail Monday, accused of using the Internet to recruit a 17-year-old
Houston woman to come to Fort Worth and of forcing her into prostitution.
— Nyokolus Hunter, 26, and Gabriel M. Walker, 19, both of Fort Worth, were arrested Friday on
felony warrants alleging trafficking of a person under age 18.
— Orlando Dion Verge, 26, was also arrested Friday and accused of online solicitation of a
minor in connection with the case. Online solicitation is also a felony.
• February 7, 2011- Dallas
— Reported on February 6, 2011, by Scott Goldstein of DallasNews.com
— A felon from Austin forced a teenage girl and her adult sister to come work as prostitutes in
Dallas because “there was big money to be made during Super Bowl,” according to police
documents.
— Anthony Ladell Winn, 35, was arrested before the sisters, ages 14 and 20, arranged any
weekend dates.
— Winn was arrested early Sunday on felony charges of attempting to compel prostitution by
force and trafficking of persons. He was being held Monday night at the Dallas County Jail in
lieu of $100,000 bail.
• January 18, 2011- Dallas
— Reported on January 19, 2011, by Jason Trahan of The Dallas Morning News
— Clint Eugene Wilson, 28, faces 15 to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Tuesday
to one count of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud or coercion and one count of being a
felon in possession of an assault rifle.
— In October 2009, Wilson befriended a girl, then 15, at a Pleasant Grove convenience store.
— Wilson had her walk Dallas streets looking for clients and rented motel rooms where he
forced her to have sex with clients. He also advertised her services online.
• January 10, 2011- Irving
— Reported on January 8, 2011, by Jon Nielsen of The Dallas Morning News
— Irving police have arrested a man they say forced a 13-year-old girl into prostitution after she
was reported missing following a middle school basketball game last month.
— 31-year-old Kenzie Lecarey Nelson, is accused of compelling the girl to work as a prostitute
and having sex with her 19 times before releasing her from a Far North Dallas motel, police
said.
— Nelson, the third man charged in the case, was being held in the Irving Jail on Friday, with
bail set at $275,000.
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• December 8, 2010- San Antonio
— Reported on December 10, 2010, by Craig Kapitan of San Antonio Express News
— Jurors returned four guilty verdicts Thursday night in the first human trafficking trial
prosecuted by the Bexar County district attorney's office
— Juan Moreno, 45, was found guilty after three hours of jury deliberation of super aggravated
sexual assault of a child, aggravated kidnapping, compelling prostitution and human
trafficking
— Prosecutors said Moreno and his brother Bobby “Spider” Moreno were drug dealers who
three years ago kidnapped a 13-year-old runaway after she visited their East Side crack den
to buy drugs.
— The teen, now 16, told jurors she was tied to a bed for a week or two and injected with drugs
as the Moreno brothers repeatedly raped her. She then was sold for sex to other
neighborhood men who stopped by for crack, she said.
— Also reported on December 8, 2010, by KENS5.com: 44-year-old Juan Moreno is indicted
on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, compelling prostitution and human trafficking for
kidnapping a 13-year-old girl in 2007 and could face life in prison if convicted.
• November 12, 2010 – Houston
— Reported on November 12, 2010, by staff of khou.com
— Houston pimp was sentenced to 405 months in prison Friday for sex trafficking of a minor,
transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and coercion of
an adult to engage in criminal sexual activity
— Barry Lernard Davis, also known as "Sir Lewis," was convicted in March 2010
— Davis lured a 16-year-old girl and a grown woman into a life of prostitution with promises of
food, shelter and material possessions. Once the victims were under his influence, he
controlled them with physical violence, sexual violence and death threats
— Previously reported March 30, 2010, in a press release distributed by the Regional
Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL): Barry Lernard Davis was convicted of Sex
Trafficking of a Minor, Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual
Activity and Coercion and Enticement of an Adult to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity and
faces 40 years without parole, 10 years to life and 20 years for the charges, respectively.
• October 20, 2010 – Midland County
— Reported October 21, 2010, by Audrie Palmer of the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
— Juan Alejandro Larronde was arrested for a second-degree felony of compelling prostitution
of a victim under 17 and a third-degree felony of aggravated promotion of prostitution.
— Each of the four girls, only one of whom was under 17, was charged with a state-jail felony of
engaging in organized criminal activity to wit: Criminal promotion of prostitution.
• October 19, 2010 – San Antonio*
— Reported October 20, 2010, by Marvin Hurts of KENS5 – San Antonio.
— Fernando Gonzales and Celeste De La Rosa were arrested Tuesday and charged with
sexual assault of a child and compelling prostitution.
— Investigators said the couple forced the 16-year-old girl to perform sex acts with men for
money. Gonzales was aware of her age, investigators said.
— The victim's picture was allegedly posted in an ad on Backpage.com to advertise her
services.
• September 28, 2010 – Parker*
- Reported September 28, 2010 by CraigsCrimelist.com
- Police in Parker County, Texas ran a prostitution sting back in August using the Village Voice
Media owned Backpage.com.
- In the sting they netted six people for various offenses related to prostitution.
- One of the women arrested on prostitution charges allegedly had her 1-year-old child and 10-
month-child with her when she went to meet her ‘client’ which turned out to be the police.
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• September 3, 2010 – Houston
- Reported September 3, 2010 by Sally MacDonald of MyFoxHouston.com
- Dr. Canaan Harris of St. Joseph Medical Center plans to donate reconstructive facial surgery
to Shellysia Milton.
- Shellysia Milton, 19, is a Houston teenager who was forced into prostitution as a child and
tortured.
- Dr. Harris says most of Milton's injuries are soft tissue trauma. His biggest concern is the
tearing in the corner of her eye.
- For two years, cops say, Christopher Crawford, 24, forced her into prostitution almost every
night of the week. If she didn't do exactly as she was told, police say Crawford was
unmerciful on her.
- Previously Reported August 31, 2010 by My Fox Houston.: Christopher Deonn Crawford
is charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury.
• August 13, 2010 – San Antonio
— Ex-Spur hauled back to jail
— Alvin Robertson, 48, a San Antonio resident who played with the Spurs from 1984 to 1989,
was arrested for Trafficking of Persons Under 18 for Prostitution, Sexual Assault of a Child
and Sexual Performance of a Child
— He forced a 14-year-old girl to have sex with men for money from Corpus Christi to San
Antonio.
— State District Judge Juanita Vasquez-Gardner ordered that his bail be increased from
$150,000 to $200,000 after a Bexar County Pretrial Services bond officer raised allegations
that he met with a co-defendant and has ignored a no-contact order regarding an alleged
adult victim.
• August 10, 2010 – Houston
— Reported August 13, 2010 by Brian Rogers of the Houston Chronicle.
— A 14-year-old girl suspected of prostitution told police her mother and grandmother, both
convicted prostitutes, forced her to sell her body to pay their living expenses.
— Alicia Melchor, 33, and Elizabeth Buford, 55, were arrested Tuesday on charges of
compelling prostitution after the girl led police to a motel room after they picked her up on
Telephone Road.
• July 13, 2010 – San Antonio
— Reported July 14, 2010, by Valentino Lucio of the San Antonio Express-News.
— Ramon Sanchez, 73, offered a 12-year-old girl money at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s
Witnesses and asked her to meet him by the restrooms
— She met him there, where he kissed her and fondled her before paying her $20.
• June 18, 2010
— Reported June 18, 2010, by Morgan Smith of the Texas Tribune.
— 6-3 Decision that girls younger than 14 cannot be charged with prostitution. Because girls
under 14 cannot consent to sex, they cannot be charged with prostitution.
— Stemmed from a case involving a 13-year-old girl living with her 32-year-old “boyfriend” who
tried to accept money to perform oral sex on an undercover officer.
Utah
• July 18, 2011- Salt Lake City
— Reported on July 18, 2011, by Dan Mecalf Jr. of ABC 4
— Police say three people from Colorado have been arrested and now face child prostitution
charges in Salt Lake City.
— 28-year-old Roscoe Gallman of Colorado Springs, 24-year-old Sasha Montiel, and 20-yearold
Abelina Roybal of Denver were arrested at a SLC Motel, where officers followed up on a
tip of an online advertisement for prostitution services.
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— The 14-year-old runaway, also from Colorado, was transported to Utah to engage in
prostitution.
• May 24, 2011- Salt Lake City
— Reported on May 24, 2011, by Russell Goldman of ABC News
— Felicia Rea McClure, is charged with two counts of first-degree felony aggravated sex abuse
of a child and two counts of second degree felony sexual exploitation of a minor, after offering
a man sex with her 13-year-old daughter in exchange for $10,000.
— Aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first degree felony for which McClure is charged on two
counts, carries in Utah a maximum sentence of life.
— Had the girl been 14 instead of 13 her mother could not be charged with a first degree felony
• Between March 1 and May 13, 2009 –Layton
— Reported June25, 2009 by Andrew Adams of KSL News.
— Juan Manuel Trinidad Garay, 34, was charged with driving young girls around town with the
intention of having them work as prostitutes.
— Garay also made sexual advances toward one of the girls.
• April 23, 2009 – South Salt Lake*
— Reported April 23, 2009, by Marcos Ortiz of ABC 4 News
— DeWayne Eugene Hopkins, 27, and Julia Young, 19, were indicted for the sex trafficking of
young girls.
— Hopkins and Young forced young girls to act as escorts and then sold pictures of the girl’s
sex act on websites.
— Ads were being placed on sites such as Craigslist for massages that would often include
some form of sexual gratification.
Virginia
• July 22, 2011- Newport News
— Reported on July 22, 2011, by WAVY TV 10
— Two men accused of running a prostitution ring in Newport News have been indicted by a
federal grand jury.
— 25-year-old Roberto A. Darden, of Newport News and 37-year-old Ujima Crudup, Hampton,
Va were allegedly involved in the sex trafficking of children and the production of child
pornography.
— The indictment says Darden and Crudup received money in exchange for sex acts performed
by a 13-year-old girl. The defendants took the victim to hotels around Hampton Roads giving
her alcohol and illegal drugs.
— Darden and Crudup face a maximum of life in prison.
• June 12, 2011- Arlington*
— Reported on June 12, 2011, by Emily Babay of The Washington Examiner
— A mall security guard charged with prostituting teenagers for sex tried to recruit girls while on
the job and told at least one of them he was an undercover police officer trying to catch
sexual predators
— The criminal complaint says that Cooper Kweme, of Arlington, ran a prostitution business by
taking nude photos of the girls, posting them on a website he created for the escort business
and on other sites like Backpage.com and driving the girls to appointments at hotels or a
client's home.
— Reported on July 22, 2011, by MyFoxDC
• May 30, 2011- Fairfax
— Reported on May 30, 2011, by Emily Babay of The Washington Examiner
— A member of the MS-13 gang has been indicted on accusations of trafficking girls for sex in
the D.C. area.
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— A federal grand jury in Alexandria indicted 21-year-old Alonso Bruno Cornejo Ormeno on
charges of sex trafficking of children and transportation with intent to engage in criminal
sexual activity.
— The indictment alleges that he trafficked the girls between February 2008 and October 2010.
— Court records say Cornejo Ormeno would tell clients a girl was young, and advertise her as a
"high school girl" and "fresh out of the box." He would also give the girls alcohol and drugs,
and encourage them to finish appointments faster to "move onto the next client more quickly."
• May 4, 2011- Henrico*
— Reported on May 4, 2011, by The Associated Press
— A Henrico man convicted of running a prostitution ring involving underage girls from his
apartment has been sentenced to four years in prison.
— Jody H. Larson was sentenced on Tuesday for his guilty plea to receiving money from
prostitution, aiding prostitution and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
— Prosecutors say Larson advertised the services of two girls on Craigslist.
• March 15, 2011- Newport*
— Reported on March 15, 2011, by Newport News (WAVY)
— Newport News police say an undercover operation on Saturday night resulted in 24 people
being charged with prostitution related offenses.
— The Newport News Police Department's Organized Crime Division used a website called
www.backpage.com to contact suspected prostitutes and "johns" to arrange a meeting at an
apartment located in the central area of the city.
— One of those arrested was a 17-year old female
• July 3, 2011- Alexandria
— Reported on July 5, 2011, by Will Sommer of Bellehaven Patch
— An Alexandria member of the MS-13 gang has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for
trafficking runaway girls as prostitutes.
— Alexander Rivas, 19, was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria. According to prosecutors,
he recruited girls, aged 14 and 17, who had run away from home and transported them to
work as prostitutes in Virginia, Maryland and the District.
— Court records say he carried a machete while driving the girls to prostitution appointments,
and threatened and robbed clients who didn't pay for services.
— Reported on July 2, 2011, by Emily Babay of The Examiner
— Previously reported on February 24, 2011, by Alexandria Times: Rivas aka “Casper” was
arrested following a months-long investigation sparked when a parent of one of the girls
tipped police off early in November. He faces felony charges in connection with a prostitution
ring he allegedly ran with local, underage girls. One victim was 14, another was 17 years old
— Also reported on February 19, 2011 by The Examiner: Alexander Rivas, 18, was arrested
by Alexandria police, following an investigation that began in November, when the father of a
14-year-old runaway told police his daughter was living with Rivas. Rivas is charged with sex
trafficking of children by force, fraud or coercion and was placed in custody.
• July 23, 2010 – Woodbridge
— Reported July 23, 2010, by the staff of InsideNoVa.com.
— Marc Shawn Brickhouse, 32, brought a 16-year-old from California to Prince William County,
Va. to force her into prostitution.
— Brickhouse, was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for trafficking the girl in Virginia,
Maryland and New York from December 2009 to February 2010. The victim escaped in
February and contacted the police.
• October 29, 2009 – Jacksonville, Fla.*
— Reported October 29, 2009, by the American Chronicle.
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— Marvin Leigh Madkins, 29, of Virginia was sentenced to 50 years in prison for Sex Trafficking
of Minors and Transporting Minors Across State Lines for Prostitution
— Madkins forced two young girls to engage in prostitution in Virginia and then later in Florida.
— Customers were obtained using multiple methods including Internet postings on Craigslist.
Washington
• July 22, 2011- Seattle*
— Reported on July 22, 2011, by Jennifer Sullivan of The Seattle Times
— Shacon Barbee made thousands of dollars running an "organized criminal enterprise" in
which he beat and intimidated girls and young women into working as prostitutes, according
to criminal charges filed Friday by King County prosecutors.
— Barbee, 32, was charged Friday with leading organized crime, three counts of promoting
commercial sexual abuse of a minor, two counts of promoting prostitution and tampering with
a witness
— In the latest charges, he is accused of forcing three young women into working as prostitutes
and then pocketing all of the money they earned. On most days, each woman earned more
than $1,000 working as a prostitute, prosecutors say.
— Barbee advertised the women and girls on Backpage.com
• June 21, 2011- Seattle*
— Reported on June 21, 2011, by Levi Pulkkinen of SeattlePI.com
— A 19-year-old Seattle woman is facing a child prostitution charge following allegations that
she pimped a girl two years her junior.
— King County prosecutors contend Micayla Michelle Fourhorns – herself convicted of
prostitution as a minor – helped the 17-year-old post advertisements on Backpage.com and
set up “dates” for the girl.
— Fourhorns faces seven to 10 years in prison if convicted as charged.
— Fourhorns, who was convicted of prostitution in 2009, has been charged with promoting the
commercial sexual abuse of a minor. She remains jailed on $100,000 bail.
• June 2, 2011- Kennewick*
— Reported on June 3, 2011, by Kristin M. Kraemer of Tri-City Herald
— Chad Andrew Crithfield pleaded innocent Wednesday to allegations that he paid money to
have sex with two underage girls after answering an ad on Backpage.com.
— Previously reported on May 24, 2011, by The News Tribune: A 19-year-old woman is
accused of forcing underage girls into prostitution and profiting from her online
Backpage.com scheme, which has landed her, her husband and four alleged customers in
court. All six people have been charged in Benton County Superior Court: Salsbury, of
Kennewick, with promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor, a felony; Stanley Lynn
Salsbury Jr., 20, of Kennewick, with second-degree promoting prostitution, a felony; Chad
Andrew Crithfield, 40, of Richland, on three counts of fourth-degree assault with sexual
motivation, a gross misdemeanor; Francisco Meza III, 31, of Sunnyside, with commercial sex
abuse of a minor, a felony; Mason Cameron Harris, 24, of Kennewick with prostitution, a
misdemeanor, and third-degree theft, a gross misdemeanor; Armand Robert Vasquez, 67, of
Phoenix, Ariz., with commercial sex abuse of a minor, a felony.
• April 28, 2011- Seattle*
— Reported on April 28, 2011, by Levi Pulkkinen of Seattle Pi
— A Shoreline man convicted of pimping a 17 year old teen girl out of a downtown Seattle hotel
has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
— Anthony Terry, 31, was among the first defendants to be sentenced under stiffer penalties for
pimping children recently enacted by the state Legislature.
— Terry was found guilty of two counts of promoting the sexual abuse of a child, as well as
promoting prostitution and witness tampering. He was sentenced Thursday to the shortest
sentence within the standard sentencing range; prosecutors had asked that he receive a 26-
year prison term.
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— Previously reported on March 30, 2011, by The Seattle Times: Anthony "Mack" Terry was
convicted on two counts of promoting the commercial sex abuse of a minor, second-degree
promoting prostitution and witness tampering. Terry was found guilty of pimping out a 17-
year-old girl and an adult woman using backpage.com and then manipulating the teenager
through a series of phone calls he made from the King County Jail.
• April 14, 2011- Tacoma
— Reported on April 14, 2011, by Levi Pulkkinen of SeattlePI.com
— U.S. Senators Federal prosecutors have charged a second man accused of pimping children
outside a Tacoma doughnut shop.
— Sabir Shabazz worked with Shabina Devona Rice to pimp at least two teen girls as part of a
prostitution ring.
— Rice kept the girls locked away in her Tacoma apartment while running the prostitution ring
outside a doughnut shop in the city. Shabazz posted advertisements for the girls – 13-yearold
runaways who’d turned to Rice for shelter – to find “johns” online.
• February 14, 2011- Tacoma
— Reported on February 14, 2011, by Adam Lynn of The News Tribune
— Christopher Lewis and Lashad Alexander, both 24, entered pleas to single counts of human
trafficking last week, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle reported today.
— Lakewood police arrested Alexander in March 2010 after a 17-year-old girl called her brother
to say she was being held against her will in a motel.
— Lewis also is accused of pimping a juvenile girl. He faces nine years in federal prison when
sentenced in May.
— Alexander faces a sentence of seven to 12 years.
• January 27, 2011- Seattle*
— Reported on January 27, 2011, by Sara Jean Green on The Seattle Times
— King County Superior Court jury convicted Baruti Hopson of pimping out a teenage girl, but
the 32-year-old Seattle man wasn't in court to hear the verdict: He testified Tuesday then
failed to show up for closing arguments Wednesday.
— Hopson was found guilty of two counts of promoting the commercial sex abuse of a minor,
three counts of third-degree child rape and one count of second-degree assault, all involving
the same girl, now 16.
— In September, the officer discovered a photo of the girl on backpage.com and contacted the
Seattle Police Department's Vice & High Risk Victims Unit for help.
• January 21, 2011- Seattle
— Reported on January 21, 2011, by the Associated Press
— King County prosecutors plan to use a trial next week in Seattle to demonstrate how pimps
and johns sexually exploit children.
— The Seattle Times reports the law is evidence of a shift in the way police and prosecutors
view the sex trade
— The three men expected to stand trial are two 22-year-olds accused of forcing a 16-year-old
Seattle girl into prostitution. Also a 55-year-old man accused of paying $400 to have sex with
the teen.
• January 14, 2011- Seattle
— Reported on January 14, 2011, by Levi Pulkkinen of Seattle PI
— King County prosecutors have charged two men with pimping a teen girl -- and one man
accused of paying them for sex with her
— Sharmaarke A. Abdilahi, 22, and Yusef Abdi Yusuf, 23 -- coerced a 16-year-old runaway girl
into working as a prostitute for them
— Corey G. Wight, a 55-year-old state employee living in Bellevue was among the men who
paid for sex with her
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— Abdilahi and Yusuf have been charged with promoting the commercial sexual abuse of a
minor. Both remain jailed on $250,000 bail.
— Wight has been charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor. Jail records show he was
released Jan. 5 after posting bond on $75,000 bail.
• December 30, 2010- Seattle
— Reported on December 30, 2010, by Tonya Mosley of KING 5 News
— Mother of teen forced into prostitution at age 13 speaks for the first time about her daughter’s
ordeal
— Last spring, LaTerra's daughter ran away from home. She says up until then, her daughter
was an honor student who loved hanging out with her family. Weeks before she ran away,
her behavior changed.
— In September, police called and told LaTerra her daughter had been found. She was living in
Tacoma where police say a pimp named Shadina Rice forced her and another teen into sex.
• December 27, 2010- Seattle
— Reported on December 27, 2010, by Levi Pulkkinen of SeattlePI.com
— A SeaTac pimp accused of keeping several teen girls as "slaves" while forcing them to sell
sex has been charged with pimping children.
— Prosecutors say Ronnie 28-year-old Leon Tramble, Jr. treated the girls as "slaves" while
making thousands of dollars a week by exploiting them on Seattle-area streets.
— Tramble is alleged to have personally sexually abused girls as young as 14 at his SeaTac
home while taking the girls around the Northwest.
— Several girls ranging from 14-17 have been victimized by Tramble
— Charged with two counts of promoting the commercial sexual abuse of a minor, Tramble is
currently jailed on $750,000 bail.
• December 22, 2010- Tukwila
— Reported on December 22, 2010, by Levi Pulkkinen of SeattlePI.com
— Roger Lee Owens, Jr., 38, is jailed and facing child prostitution charges after drugging and
pimping a 14-year old runaway in Tukwila
— King County prosecutors say Owens, 38, took the girl in and forced her to work as a
prostitute so he could buy cocaine and pay rent on a Tukwila motel room. He threatened her
with violence, according to police, and delivered on that threat at least once.
— Owens was arrested Dec. 15.
— Charged with promoting the commercial sexual abuse of a minor, Owens remains jailed. He
has not yet entered a plea.
• December 20, 2010- Seattle
— Reported on December 20, 2010, by Susan Kelleher of The Seattle Times
— Within months after she started prostituting herself at age 16, “Kelsey” Collins was picked up
by police in Portland, Ore., having been taken across the state line by her 36-year-old pimp.
— Police convinced the girl to tell her story to a federal grand jury and she vanished without a
trace within weeks of her testimony.
— In Seattle, she was arrested and booked as a prostitute and put in juvenile detention. In
Portland, police treated Kelsey as a runaway and victim. And at the federal level, before a
grand jury, Kelsey was a star witness — until she disappeared.
• December 26, 2010- Kent
— Reported on December 16, 2010, by Kirotv.com
— Police in Kent arrested a 28-year old man, suspected of running a child prostitution ring.
— Police say the man would befriend girls, develop a personal and romantic relationship with
them. He would then compel them to engage in prostitution for his personal gain.
— Kent detectives have been working on the case for three months, and have been able to
track the suspect's activities throughout the Northwest
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• December 8, 2010- Tacoma
— Reported on December 8, 2010, by Chris Daniels of KING 5 News
— A Tacoma woman faces federal charges amid accusations she led a child sex trafficking
operation
— Shadina Rice allegedly took in two runaway 13-year-old girls and forced them to serve as
prostitutes. Court documents say Rice took pictures of the girls, posted them online and had
men meet her at a local donut shop. The men were then directed to an apartment where the
girls were held and forced to perform sex acts.
— The girls were rescued and later told police they feared Rice and for their safety.
— Rice will answer to the charges at a federal hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
• November 5-7, 2010 – Kent
— Reported on November 10, 2010, by Steve Hunter of Kent Reporter
— Eight children ages 13-17 were taken into protective custody Nov. 5-7 in Kent as part of an
FBI-organized nationwide sting to recover youngsters involved in the sex-trafficking trade
— Twenty-three child prostitutes were taken off the streets in the Everett, Tacoma and Seattle
area, including Kent
• November 4-6, 2010 – Seattle
— Reported on November 8, 2010 by Statesman Journal
— Two dozen of the 69 child prostitutes recovered in a national crackdown on sexual
exploitation were in the Seattle area
— This is the third year in a row the area has led the nation.
— The FBI is working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to identify the
children. All have been placed into protective custody or returned to their families
• July 20, 2010 – Seattle*
— Reported July 23, 2010, by KIRO-TV on kirotv.com.
— Sgt. Sterling Terrance Hospedales pled guilty to Sex Trafficking of a Child and Attempted Sex
Trafficking of a Child as part of a reduced-sentence plea agreement.
— In April 2009, Lakewood police learned of a teen girl offering herself as a prostitute on
Craigslist.
• July 1, 2010 – Tacoma
— Reported July 2, 2010, by Stephanie A. Clark of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash.
— Two men were arrested under suspicion of forcing a 17-year-old, who they met on a social
networking site, into prostitution in the cities of Tacoma, Des Moines and Seattle.
— Police report was filed by the victim and her mother
— Both men were booked for Promoting Commercial Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
Washington, D.C.
• November 9, 2010 – Washington, D.C.
— Reported on November 9, 2010, by Andrea McCarren of WUSA9.com (Watch video here)
— Shelby Lewis, a 42-year-old Prince George's County man, was sentenced to 20 years in
prison for forcing girls as young as 12-years-old to sell their bodies on the streets of DC and
Maryland
— 9NEWS NOW got a rare glimpse into the world of human sex trafficking in our area through
the eyes of a teenager
— When asked about her thoughts on Lewis' 20-year prison sentence, she said "That's not long
enough; I have to deal with this the rest of my life."
• November 8, 2010
— Reported on November 8, 2010, by Alicia A. Caldwell of The Washington Post
— More than five dozen child prostitutes have been found in the last three days as part of a
nationwide crackdown on the sexual exploitation of children, the FBI said Monday
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— FBI spokesman Jason Pack said 69 children were removed from prostitution and 99
suspected pimps were arrested in 40 cities across 30 states and the District of Columbia
— The largest group of child prostitutes, 24, was found in and around Seattle
— The children found ranged in age from 12 to 17
— Since 2003, when the FBI and the Justice Department launched the Innocence Lost National
Initiative, about 1,250 child prostitutes have been located and removed from prostitution
• Week of June 7, 2010
— Reported June 9, 2010, by the Mary Pat Flaherty of the Washington Post.
— Derwin Smith, 42, was arrested and charged with trafficking and prostituting a minor.
— He picked up a 12-year-old girl from D.C. (reported missing on May 25, 2010) and drove her
back and forth from D.C. to Atlantic City, N.J. forcing her into prostitution along the way.
West Virginia
• July 20, 2011- Charleston
— Reported on July 20, 2011, by Zac Taylor of The Charleston Gazette
— Police arrested Kanawha County assistant public defender Steve Conifer Wednesday for
allegedly trying to prostitute children as young as 5 years old over the Internet.
— Conifer was charged under a section of state law titled "receiving support from prostitution;
pimping; penalty; prostitute may testify." A first offense that involves a minor is punishable by
a prison sentence of not less than two years and a fine of up to $5,000.
— Conifer was arraigned before county Magistrate Traci Carper-Strickland and was released
after posting 10 percent of his $50,000 bond.
— Reported on July 20, 2011, by WOWK 13
Wisconsin
• June 14, 2011- Wausau*
— Reported on June 14, 2011, by Wausau Daily Herald
— Prosecutors say 18-year-old Nicole Riehle and 28-year-old Barbi Metzger were involved in
prostituting young girls and have been ordered to stand trial.
— Metzger was accused of putting pictures of the teenagers wearing only their underwear on
Backpage.com and advertised the girls for sexual favors
— Dominick D. West, 19, of Wausau also was charged in connection with the prostitution ring.
West is scheduled to enter a plea to prostitution charges Wednesday. Darrell D. Vaughn is
scheduled to enter a plea July 7.
— Previously reported on May 25, 2011, by Wausau Daily Herald: Darrell D. Vaughn, 19, is
charged with three counts each of soliciting a child for prostitution and child enticement for
prostitution. He faces up to 25 years in prison on each count, if convicted. Vaughn told
investigators that he was paid to drive three teenage girls to Wausau motels to have sex with
men for money in the rooms paid for by Nicole K. Riehle, 18. William Payne, 22, of Wausau,
organized the prostitution ring. 27-year-old Barbi Metzger, and 19-year-old Dominick West
are also facing charges.
— Previously reported on May 18, 2011, by WAOW.com: A fourth person has now been
charged in a Wausau child prostitution ring. Prosecutors have charged Dominick D. West, 19,
with nine counts relating to his role in child prostitution and an arraignment has been
scheduled for June 15.
— Previously reported on March 28, 2011 by WAOW News 9: Five adults have been
arrested in connection with a child prostitution ring in Wausau. Barbi Metzger, Nicole Riehle
and Darrell Vaughn have been charged. Police are also looking into the three teenage girls
involved (17 years old), saying they could face prostitution charges too.
— Previously reported on March 16, 2011 by Wausau Daily Herald: Darrell D. Vaughn, 19,
of Schofield, and Wausau residents Nicole K. Riehle, 18, and Barbi L. Metzger, 27, were
charged with three counts each of enticing a child for prostitution and soliciting a child for
prostitution. Each count carries a maximum 25-year prison sentence. Metzger put pictures of
17-year-old wearing only her underwear on the social networking website Backpage.com
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and advertised her for sexual favors. Two other 17-year-old girls also told investigators that
they worked as prostitutes for Vaughn, Riehle and Metzger.
• May 13, 2011- Wausau
— Reported on May 13, 2011, by Jeff Starck of Wausau Daily Herald
— A Wausau woman "fed her daughter to the wolves" when she agreed to live with a registered
sex offender and another man now accused of molesting the 9-year-old and is charged with
five years in prison followed by five years of extended supervision
— The two men who lived with the woman, Clyde R. McCollum Jr., 38, and Bryan Hearron, 41,
still face criminal charges.
— "In essence, for $400 a month, it was sick prostitution of this child," Marathon County
Assistant District Attorney Theresa Wetzsteon said.
• January 21, 2011- Milwaukee
— Reported on January 21, 2011, by John Diedrich of The Journal Sentinel
— A Milwaukee man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for recruiting a 14-year-old girl
as a prostitute.
— On Friday Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert sentenced 35-year-old Amani Booker
— Booker admitted he and Holly Arnold found the girl walking on a Milwaukee street on May 21.
Booker told the girl she could make a lot of money.
— Prosecutors said the three went to a hotel, where Booker gave the girl marijuana and took
nude photos of her, which he posted on the Internet.
— Arnold was sentenced to a year in prison. Sentencing guidelines called for 14 to 17 years in
prison for Booker. His attorney asked for the minimum sentence: 10 years in prison.
• July 14, 2010 – Milwaukee
— Reported July 14, 2010, by John Diedrich of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
— Nicholas Harrison, 20, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to Sex
Trafficking of Children by Force.
— Received lower sentence for providing information implicating his father, who he helped in
their sex trafficking.
• June 16, 2010 – Milwaukee
— Reported June 16, 2010, by John Diedrich of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
— A couple stopped a 14-year-old on the street and convinced her to get into the car and
perform sex acts for money at a local hotel.
— Amani Booker and Holly Arnold face sentences of 15 years to life in prison if convicted.
— Arnold, a convicted prostitute, gave the girl marijuana and took nude photos of her and
posted them to “a local website.”
— Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Wall is also prosecuting this federal case. This was the third
of its kind in Milwaukee in 18 months.
• July 1, 2010 – Milwaukee*
— Reported July 1, 2010, by Bruce Vielmetti of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
— Todd Carter, 40, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison making him “the first person
convicted in Wisconsin under a tough federal law aimed at the sex trafficking of children.”
— Pimped at least half a dozen girls in Wisconsin and surrounding states with the help of
Nicholas Harrison, his 20-year-old son
— Carter took nude photos of the girls and posted them on Craigslist.
— Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Wall sought a tougher sentence in order to, "send a message
to the people who pull the strings.”
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