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Sex Trafficking in Killeen, Texas (2010)

A sex trafficking case from 2010 in Killeen, Texas, United States. 2 sources on file.

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What happened

Dwayne Charles Love, 24, from Suisan, California. The woman told police that Love had created listings on sexually-oriented websites, and had provided her with a work cell phone that was linked to the listings online, according to the arrest affidavit. She said that she had been at the hotel for three days and during that time, she had sex with four men, Witherspoon had sex with five or six men, and the other woman with three men. She said that she and the other woman would collect the money and give it to Witherspoon, who would give it to Love. She told police she couldn't keep any of the money, but was given a place to stay and food to eat. http://www.kwtx.com/waco/headlines/101919423.html http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=41099

Response and intervention

Arrest made by Killeen police. Dewayne Charles Love was convicted Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Waco of transporting a person in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in criminal activity in a case involving forced prostitution. It took the jury only a little more than two-and-a-half hours to find Love guilty of bringing Ashley Caufield to Killeen from California and forcing her to work as a prostitute. A federal investigation is ongoing. The 19-year-old woman sent text messages to her family in California stating that she was forced into prostitution and locked in a Killeen hotel room. On Jan. 3, officers located the woman at a room registered in her name at the Sleep Inn & Suites, along with Alexis Shabre Witherspoon, 20, of Sacramento, Calif., Dwayne Charles Love, 24, of Suisun, Calif., and another woman. Aftercare is not known. The victim sent text messages to her family.

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Austin, Texas, United States, 2008

United States US

Lopez-Torres was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for importation of aliens for immoral purposes, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a stolen firearm.

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CSEC2008

Austin, Texas, United States, 2008

United States US

Maricela Uresti-Martinez and Violeta Juanita De Hoyos-Hernandez recruited and trafficked the victims (minors from Mexico) to come to the U.S. from November 2002 to May 2003. Uresti-Martinez recruited the women, saying that they could come to the U.S. and would work for a short time in her restaurant to repay their $1500 smuggling fee. After reaching Austin, the victims were held against their will, and forced to engage in prostitution to repay their fee. They were threatened to be killed if they did not do as they were told.

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