Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors - Women's Funding Network

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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