Category Archive for : ‘TRAFFICKING ADULTS’

John Blinn

A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking crimes he committed in Pittsburgh.

According to a statement from the Department of Justice, 23-year-old Anthony Juskowich was convicted in federal court for sex trafficking crimes.

Prosecutors say that Juskowich began grooming a woman in Dececember 2019 in Alabama. He and the woman later moved to Pittsburgh and stayed in Oakland. He attempted sex trafficking crimes in Georgia before the move.

Court documents said that Juskowich told the woman to engage in commercial sex acts, and falsely promised her

By David Propper

A Brooklyn pimp who admitted to chopping up his prostitute girlfriend and putting her severed head in his freezer was charged by the feds on Tuesday for the woman’s gruesome 2017 murder and also years of sex trafficking.

Somorie Moses, also known as “Sugar Bear,” was acquitted of Leondra Foster’s murder in Brooklyn criminal court in November 2019, but will now face a fresh murder charge by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District.

He’s also facing federal charges related to the sex trafficking of eight women, including minors,

By: News 12 Staff

A Hempstead man was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for running a sex trafficking ring on Long Island.

The Suffolk district attorney says William Wilkinson forced victims into prostitution in order to pay off purported debts he claimed the victims owed him. Some of the debts were for food, shelter and narcotics.

Wilkinson recruited victims in person as well as through social media beginning in September of 1999.

By Casey Harrison

A star on the former MTV show “Making the Band” has been booked into jail in Las Vegas on a sex trafficking charge, according to Metro Police.

Kevin Barnes, 27, and known by the moniker “Chopper,” was booked Monday in the Clark County Detention Center on one count of sex trafficking of an adult, police said in a release. Barnes had a large social media following that he used to recruit women to be sex workers, police said.

Barnes was arrested earlier this month and was being extradited to Las

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 Emily Van de Riet

MANCHESTER, Md. (Gray News) – A Maryland man was sentenced to 17 years in prison Friday for kidnapping a woman and leading a sex trafficking conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

The DOJ said Joshua Lankford, 33, used violence and drugs to control a young woman and planned to kill her to keep her from testifying at trial.

According to court documents, Lankford led and organized a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force. Evidence indicated that Lankford kidnapped the victim, a young adult woman, to engage