Martinez-Lugo was charged in an indictment with being unlawfully present in the United States following removal. He pleaded guilty to the indictment without the benefit of a written plea agreement. In the Presentence Report ("PSR"), the Probation Office determined that Martinez-Lugo's base offense level was eight. It applied a 16-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(i) for havin... More...   $0 (12-30-2015 - TX)

Mr. White took indecent liberties with a child in North Carolina on February 6, 2005, in violation of section 14-202.1 of the North Carolina Criminal Code. On July 27, 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Mr. White was indicted by the State of North Carolina on December 11, 2006, and convicted on February 14, 2007. On February 28, 2007, two weeks after ... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - OK)

Before the Court is the defendant's Motion to Dismiss for Government Entrapment / Outrageous Governmental Conduct (Doc. 14). Upon consideration of the Motion, the government's Response (Doc. 15), and the parties' presentations at the hearing on the Motion, the Court finds and concludes that the Motion should be denied.I. Background The Indictment charges that the defendant violated 18 U.S.... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - OK)

At approximately 6:15 p.m. on August 22, 2014, Oklahoma City police officer Stanley McMullen was patrolling a high crime area in south Oklahoma City known for drugs, guns and prostitution. He noticed a man sitting in the front passenger seat of a white Toyota sedanPage 2parked on Southwest 41st Street near south Robinson. The officer initially suspected the individual was engaging in an act of p... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - OK)

The challenged portions of the indictment are as follows. Counts Seven through Twelve charge violations of three similar statutes: 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422 (in the indictment, "Interstate Prostitution"), 2421 ("Mann Act"), and 2423 ("Illicit Transportation of a Minor"). The Interstate Prostitution counts allege that Defendant induced "one or more individuals to travel in interstate commerce to engage in ... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - NY)

In August 2013, appellant Antonio Dion Washington-Davis was charged by amended complaint with seven prostitution-related offenses, which allegedly occurred between September 2010 and July 2012. The state also charged four of appellant's relatives with similar prostitution-related offenses: appellant's brother, Otis Washington; his uncles, Calvin Washington and Robert Washington; and the mother of ... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - MN)

Lucious Boyd was convicted for the first-degree murder, armed kidnapping, and sexual battery of Dawnia Dacosta and sentenced to the penalties of death, life imprisonment, and fifteen years’ imprisonment, respectively. Boyd v. State, 910
So. 2d 167, 176-77 (Fla. 2005). . Trial and Direct Appeal Proceedings On direct appeal, we set forth the relevant factual and procedural background as follo... More...   $0 (12-19-2015 - FL)

This matter is before the Court on Defendant Cole Jamal Daniels's ("Defendant" or "Daniels") Objections [62, 66] to Magistrate Judge E. Clayton Scofield, III's Reports and Recommendations [60, 64], issued on October 24 and November 20, 2014. The Magistrate Judge recommends that Defendant's Motion to Suppress Statements [23], and Motion to Suppress Evidence [24] derived from his arrest and the seiz... More...   $0 (12-18-2015 - GA)

At approximately 6:15 p.m. on August 22, 2014, Oklahoma City police officer Stanley McMullen was patrolling a high crime area in south Oklahoma City known for drugs, guns and prostitution. He noticed a man sitting in the front passenger seat of a white Toyota sedanPage 2parked on Southwest 41st Street near south Robinson. The officer initially suspected the individual was engaging in an act of pr... More...   $0 (12-18-2015 - OK)

A second superseding indictment charges Defendant in Count One with sex trafficking a child under the age of 14, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a)(1), (a)(2), (b)(1); in Counts Two and Three with sex trafficking a child under the age of 18, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a)(1), (a)(2), (b)(1), (b)(2); in Count Four with promoting prostitution, in violation of the Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952... More...   $0 (12-18-2015 - NY)

In August 2013, appellant Antonio Dion Washington-Davis was charged by amended complaint with seven prostitution-related offenses, which allegedly occurred between September 2010 and July 2012. The state also charged four of appellant's relatives with similar prostitution-related offenses: appellant's brother, Otis Washington; his uncles, Calvin Washington and Robert Washington; and the mother of ... More...   $0 (12-18-2015 - MN)

Dallas, TX - Dublin, Texas, Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for Sending Obscene Photo of Himself to Undercover Officer Posing Online as 14-Year-Old-Girl

Defendant Enticed the 14-Year-Old to Have Sexual Contact With Him and was Arrested by Law Enforcement at Meeting Place in Garland, Texas

Sethaniel Winston Hampsten, 24, of Dublin, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. Di... More...   $0 (12-16-2015 - TX)

On June 6, 2014, the Davidson County Grand Jury indicted the defendant and two co-defendants, Demontise Martez Drumwright and Secquoyah Shanice Smikes, for aggravated burglary acting in concert with others and robbery acting in concert with others, Class B felonies. Additionally, Ms. Smikes was indicted for prostitution. At the guilty plea hearing, the prosecutor recited the evidence the State w... More...   $0 (12-12-2015 - TN)

When Doe was thirty-five years old, he acknowledged the amicus briefs submitted by the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, and by the Youth Advocacy Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts.
reportedly "twisted" the penis of his six year old nephew through the ... More...   $0 (12-11-2015 - MA)

Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Edik Asadorian (43, Queens, NY) guilty of interstate transportation for prostitution and interstate violation of a protective order against domestic violence. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for February 29, 2016.

Asadoria... More...   $0 (12-10-2015 - FL)

Oklahoma City, OK - Oklahoma City Pimp Sentenced to 92 Months in Prison for Transporting a Juvenile Across State Lines for the Purpose of Prostitution

PHILIP GATSON, (aka "Young Selo") 24, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Robin J. Cauthron to serve 92 months in federal prison for transporting a child under age 18 across state lines for the purposes of engagi... More...   $0 (12-08-2015 - OK)

Houston, TX - Sex Trafficker Gets 30 Years in Prison

Five people have been sentenced for their respective roles in a sex trafficking of minors conspiracy in which young females were forced and/or coerced to engaged in commercial sex acts. Emanuel Dandre Wade, 26, Charmaine Henderson, 27, Ashley Shawntel Williams, 22, and Darquesha Perry, 28, all pleaded guilty to varying offenses on March... More...   $0 (12-04-2015 - TX)

Montgomery, Alabama – Three Montgomery residents were indicted by a federal grand jury for their involvement in an interstate prostitution ring being operated out of an apartment in Montgomery, announced U.S. Attorney George Beck from the Middle District of Alabama. The three individuals indicted were: Bernabe Carbajal, 37; Andres Hernandez Gomez, 53; and Saul Garrido Eligio, 34.

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Adam Darrick Toghill (Toghill), an adult, engaged in an email exchange with a law enforcement officer posing as a minor wherein Toghill proposed that the two engage in oral sex. Subsequently, Toghill was indicted on charges of Internet solicitation of a minor in violation of Code § 18.2–374.3. The Circuit Court of Louisa County and both parties agreed that Toghill was accused of soliciting oral se... More...   $0 (11-29-2015 - VA)

Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Man Sentenced To 18 Years Imprisonment

Drayon Wren (age: 38), was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release for federal sex trafficking charges involving three minor victims and one adult victim.

On July 16, 2015, Wren plead guilty to three counts of sex trafficking of a child and one count of sex trafficking an adult ... More...   $0 (11-27-2015 - Wi)

The appellant arrived at Naval Station Great Lakes and checked into Marine Air Control Group 48 in June 2011, where he represented he was a “bonafide bachelor” and was thus permitted to move into government quarters set aside for that purpose. However, the appellant also received Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) payments since he falsely reported that he lived in an apartment in Chicago. The re... More...   $0 (11-26-2015 - DC)

Minneapolis, MN - Blaine Man Sentenced To 282 Months In Prison For Trafficking 18-Year-Old Victim

RAHMAD LASHAD GEDDES, a/k/a “Face,” a/k/a “Poo Poo,” 36, to 282 months in federal prison for trafficking an 18-year-old woman from Wisconsin to Duluth, Minn., for the purpose of commercial sex. GEDDES, who was charged in a superseding indictment on April 8, 2015, was convicted on April 27, 20... More...   $0 (11-25-2015 - MN)

Scranton, PA - Monroe County Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin And Sex Trafficking Conspiracies; Six Others Charged

Sirvonn Taylor, age 33, of Pocono Summit, admitted to conspiring with others to commit drug trafficking and sex trafficking crimes between 2012 and 2014.

Taylor pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a heroin tr... More...   $0 (11-24-2015 - PA)

Missoula, MT - Washington Man Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison on Prostitution-Relate Charge

Frederick Glen Johnson, 47, of Spokane Valley, Washington, was sentenced in Missoula federal court for drug and prostitution-related racketeering crimes. In June, Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and one count o... More...   $0 (11-13-2015 - MT)

Oklahoma City, OK - Attorney Pleads Guilty to Traveling from Oklahoma City to Peru to Engage in Sex with Girl Under 18

Michael Dean Billings, 60, an attorney from Oklahoma City, pled guilty to traveling from Oklahoma City to Iquitos, Peru, between January 1, 2011 and February 21, 2013, to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a Peruvian girl under 18 years of age, announced Sanford C. Co... More...   $0 (11-13-2015 - OK)