Good news! Feds nailed one of these cockroach traffickers in hempstead.. hopefully they are working their way into suffolk county now.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/sex-trafficking-hempstead-manhattan-1.16729177
Feds: Hempstead man oversaw sex-trafficking operation
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A Hempstead man has been indicted on felony sex trafficking charges in connection with allegations he forced up to 50 women into sex work and demanded they give him the money clients paid for their services, federal authorities said Monday.
Lavelleous Purcell, 39, who is also known as King Casino and Mike Hill, faces charges of violation of the Mann Act, enticement to engage in unlawful activities, the use of interstate commerce to promote unlawful activity, conspiracy to use interstate commerce to promote unlawful activity, and sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion.
He was arraigned Friday in Manhattan before United States Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron.
An alleged co-conspirator, Gloria Palmer, 26, of Rochester, was arraigned upstate on Friday on a felony charge of conspiracy to use interstate commerce to promote unlawful activity, authorities said.
Our FBI agents and law enforcement partner detectives wont ever stop pursuing pimps who profit from using women not as human beings, but as objects and as a way to make money, said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. in a news release Monday announcing the unsealing of an indictment against the pair.
Purcells actions were exploitive, forcing women to engage in sex for money, and keeping the money for himself, said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman in the news release. Thanks to the FBI and NYPD, Purcell and his alleged accomplice, Gloria Palmer, are in custody.