Category: Perpetrators

Warren, Detroit Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said, 75 charges — 30 felonies and 45 misdemeanors — have been filed, including transporting a prostitute and accepting earnings of a prostitute, which he said are 20-year felonies. Other charges include solicitation and use of a computer in the alleged crimes.

A 21-year-old man was sentenced to 16 years and eight months in state prison in a case where prosecutors say he trafficked two girls and continued to do so after his arrest. Hackett was charged with trafficking two victims, both of whom he dated at the time of the offenses. One of them had his child, and within weeks of the birth, he sent her back out on the streets to “make money” for him, prosecutors said.

On April 15, 2019, a jury found Defendant Gabriel Guel, 33, guilty of the offense of Prostitution. The trial was held in County Court at Law Number One (1) of Montgomery County, Texas, Judge Dennis Watson presiding. Guel was arrested on October 24, 2018, during Operation Cross County after offering to pay a fee to an undercover officer in exchange for sexual intercourse and oral sex.

On April 12, 2019 Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Clare Maier sentenced Corell Olajuwon Hackett to 16 years and 8 months in state prison for sex trafficking two young women from 2016 to 2018. In 2016, 17-year-old Jane Doe 2 gave birth to defendant’s baby. Within weeks of the birth, defendant pressured her to go out and make money for him by working as a prostitute.

An undercover human trafficking sting resulted in the arrests of 24 people in Independence, Missouri, last week, police said. The investigation, which took place over two days, focused on a hotel near Noland Road and Interstate 70. One missing person was located as the result of the investigation, and four human trafficking victims were rescued, police said. Police said the prostitution arrests involved people ranging in age from late teens to 50s.

Willie Charles Blackmon Jr., 37, was found guilty in November of two counts of sex trafficking minors and two counts of promoting a prostitution business, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. He provided them drugs and hurt them, according to authorities. If the kids did not perform sex acts or disrespected Blackmon, he held a gun to their heads.

As the notorious website Backpage was under fire by legislators and the public over alleged prostitution ads linked by critics to sex trafficking of minors, San Francisco software titan Salesforce stepped in to save the site and help it grow, a new lawsuit claims. “Salesforce knew the scourge of sex trafficking because it sought publicity for trying to stop it,” the lawsuit filed by 50 “Jane Does” alleged.The suit claimed Salesforce conspired with Backpage “to assist human traffickers’ sexual exploitation and human trafficking of minors.”

Leon R. Harrison, age 56, of Washington D.C., pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor, for having sex with a 15-year-old girl in exchange for money. Harrison admitted that he met Girl 1 online and began engaging in commercial sex with Girl 1 beginning in 2016 or 2017, when she would have been 13 or 14 years old. “Children cannot consent to have sex for money, and any adult who encourages or profits from sexual exploitation of children faces a lengthy term in federal prison,” said U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur.

Florida ranks third in the country for human trafficking, much of it sex trafficking. Police charged Kraft and 24 others who allegedly paid for secret sex acts inside the Orchids of Asia Day Spa. The charge comes amid a widespread crackdown on sex trafficking involving more than 300 male buyers and multiple women running operations in several counties.