Category Archive for : ‘HOTEL’

By Emily Shugerman

New York prosecutors charged nine people Tuesday in what they claim was a multi-state sex trafficking operation that coerced women into prostituting themselves for the ringleaders’ gain—and viciously beat them if they worked for someone else.

According to the indictment, the nine participants recruited women—many of them immigrants from China without legal status in the U.S.—to travel to hotels across the country to engage in prostitution, then collected the proceeds for themselves. Prosecutors also claim the participants targeted women who worked for rival prostitution services, or operated independently, by

By: News 12 Staff

A Suffolk County man could spend nearly a century in prison for allegedly raping and robbing a woman at a Woodbury hotel.

Police say it happened in April 2021 when Isaiah Giles demanded money and jewelry from the victim.

When the woman refused, the 26-year-old allegedly strangled the woman, raped her and then stole jewelry and money.

If convicted, Giles faces up to 90 years in prison.

A homeless man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping his girlfriend.

Police say Kenyonne Fleurinay carried the 20-year-old from a room at America’s Best Value Inn in Smithtown.

They say the woman tried to escape at a Melville gas station, but couldn’t.

Investigators tell News 12 that the victim’s family called police to say she was being held against her will.

They say Fleurinay drove to New Jersey before being convinced to return to Suffolk County.

Fleurinay was arrested just before 3 a.m. Monday when a patrol officer spotted his car near exit 65 on the

TOM HAYS

August 23, 2021

AP NEWS

NEW YORK (AP) — Another accuser took the witness stand on Monday at R. Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial, testifying that the R&B superstar sexually abused her on his tour bus and in hotel rooms when she was still a high school student and an aspiring singer.

The woman, identified only as “Jane Doe,” said Kelly once beat her with a shoe and wept when she also claimed that she contracted herpes after having sex with him. She said he hadn’t disclosed he had a sexually transmitted disease.

“This man

May 13, 2021
Carol Robinson
Al.com

A Tarrant man is under arrest after authorities say he tried to solicit a juvenile for sex, one of handful of men arrested by Homewood police in recent months in ongoing operations targeting sex crimes, particularly those against children.
Gabriel Jesus France-Mendez, 20, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail earlier this week – on Tuesday – on charges of traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and child solicitation by computer – electronic solicitation for a child.
Details of his alleged crimes have not been

April 20, 2021
Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post

An Ohio school district employee who thought he was arranging sex with an 8-year-old girl showed up at a hotel with candy, condoms and a bottle of NyQuil, FBI officials said.
Bradley Willem Beun, 41, of Uniontown, was busted Friday at a hotel in Akron, where the stomach-churning items he agreed to bring in an earlier online chat with an FBI undercover investigator were found inside his car, FBI officials in Cleveland said Monday.
Beun, who worked as director of special services for Springfield Local School District,