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- Authorities accuse the three suspects <strong>of</strong> recruiting and transporting a 16-year-old girl for the<br />

purpose <strong>of</strong> prostitution.<br />

- Warren and Evon have been arrested, while Boyd has not yet been taken into custody.<br />

• September 25, 2010 – Concord<br />

- Reported September 28, 2010 by Robert Salonga <strong>of</strong> the Contra Costa Times<br />

- Police <strong>of</strong>ficers searching during the weekend for a wanted parolee uncovered what Concord<br />

authorities said was a scheme involving the prostitution <strong>of</strong> a teenage runaway.<br />

- Mario Cano, 33, <strong>of</strong> Concord, was wanted for violating parole, and <strong>of</strong>ficers tracked him to a<br />

home in the 1600 block <strong>of</strong> Donaldson Court about midnight Saturday.<br />

- Police also found 37-year-old Derrick Jackson and a 16-year-old girl, whose explanations for<br />

being there immediately raised suspicion.<br />

- Cano and Jackson were booked into Contra Costa County Jail on suspicion <strong>of</strong> contributing to<br />

the delinquency <strong>of</strong> a minor, possessing methamphetamine, possession <strong>of</strong> obscene material,<br />

unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, solicitation <strong>of</strong> prostitution, pandering for prostitution,<br />

human trafficking <strong>of</strong> a subject under 18, and lewd and lascivious acts with a child.<br />

• September 13, 2010 – San Diego<br />

- Written September 13, 2010 by San Diego 6<br />

- Patrick Jones, 22, was convicted in May <strong>of</strong> one count each <strong>of</strong> sexual exploitation <strong>of</strong> a child<br />

and sex trafficking <strong>of</strong> children and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.<br />

- Co-defendants Dwayne Tousant, 24, and Dominique Willis, were sentenced to 10 and nine<br />

years.<br />

- They picked up the 14-year-old at a restaurant on El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego and<br />

drove her to Oceanside, where she was forced to pose for explicit photographs so "johns"<br />

could be solicited to engage in commercial sex acts with the child.<br />

• July 28, 2010 – Sacramento<br />

— Reported July 28, 2010, by an FBI press release and published on 7thspace.com.<br />

— Reginald Wilson, 23, sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison after pleading guilty to <strong>Sex</strong> <strong>Trafficking</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Minors</strong> in September 2009.<br />

— Wilson recruited a 15- and 16-year-old and forced them into prostitution.<br />

• July 26, 2010 – Sacramento County<br />

— Reported July 26, 2010, by CBS13 in Sacramento County.<br />

— Several victims forced into prostitution are in custody after police found them on the street<br />

after curfew.<br />

— No identifying information was provided.<br />

• July 15, 2010 – San Diego<br />

— Reported July 15, 2010, by Debbi Baker <strong>of</strong> the San Diego Union-Tribune.<br />

— Charles Daun Hamilton, 33, allegedly forced a 16-year-old to work as a prostitute from April<br />

to June 2010.<br />

— Hamilton was indicted July 8, 2010, on one count <strong>of</strong> <strong>Sex</strong> <strong>Trafficking</strong> <strong>of</strong> Children by Force,<br />

Fraud or Coercion.<br />

• June 25, 2010 – Sacramento*<br />

— Reported June 25, 2010, by Cathy Locke <strong>of</strong> the Sacramento Bee.<br />

— Dominick West, 29, was sentenced to 10 years for Interstate Transportation <strong>of</strong> a Minor for<br />

<strong>Sex</strong> to be served concurrently with the 51-year sentence he is currently serving for murder.<br />

— Police report filed January 11, 2008, <strong>of</strong> a 15-year-old runaway from Montana being <strong>of</strong>fered as<br />

a prostitute on Craigslist.<br />

— Girl was taken into custody and her story learned during a sting operation conducted by an<br />

undercover <strong>of</strong>ficer.<br />

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