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Date: 12-27-2020
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Case Number: 4:19-cr-00076-SMR-CFB
Judge: Stephanie M. Rose
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (Polk County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office, Des Moines, Iowa
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Description: Des Moines, Iowa sex trafficking children charged criminal defense lawyers represented defendants.
Three defendants were charge sex trafficking children.
On December 7, 2020, Tommy Tate Collins of Cedar Rapids was sentenced to 210 months in prison following a guilty plea to one count of child sex trafficking. Collins admitted in his plea agreement that he trafficked a minor child, who was 15 and 16 years old at the time, by paying her for sex acts with money and drugs.
On December 18, 2020, Albert Kelly Price was sentenced to 348 months imprisonment. Price pleaded guilty to trafficking two minors and admitted to trafficking a total of three minors who were between 14 and 16 years old. Price paid all three minors for sex acts and used physical force on each minor. Price resided in Iowa City and North Liberty.
On December 21, 2020, Arrion Marcus West, Jr. of Iowa City was sentenced to 210 months imprisonment for trafficking two minors, who were 15 and 17 years old at the time of the offenses. West trafficked the minors by advertising them on escort websites, arranging prices and sex acts with customers, transporting them to engage in sex acts, and taking proceeds from the commercial sex acts. West also used physical violence towards one victim.
Co-defendants that were previously sentenced include Isaiah Patterson, sentenced to 144 months imprisonment in January 2020 for trafficking a 15 year old by posting advertisements of her for commercial sex acts, and Kendall Andrew Streb, who was sentenced in September 2020 to 268 months imprisonment for trafficking three minors and additional offenses.
“The defendants in these cases were buyers and sellers of children in our community,” stated Krickbaum. “They exploited vulnerable teenage girls for their own sexual gratification, and collectively they will serve many decades in federal prison. Federal law does not distinguish between ‘johns’ who will pay for sex with a minor, and pimps who offer minors for sex. Both groups are serious criminals, and we will treat them as such.”
Human trafficking is defined as a crime involving the exploitation of youth under the age of 18 for commercial sex; the exploitation of adults for commercial sex through the use of force, fraud, or coercion; and the exploitation of any individual for compelled labor. Human trafficking does not require the transportation of individuals across state lines, or that someone is physically restrained. Signs that a person is being trafficked can include working excessively long hours, unexplained gifts, physical injury, substance abuse issues, running away from home, isolation from others, or having a person in their life controlling them or monitoring them closely. Anyone who suspects human trafficking is occurring, be it a minor engaging in paid sex acts, or anyone being coerced into prostitution or labor, is urged to call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
The case was investigated by the Iowa City Police Department, with assistance from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation, and the Coralville Police Department. This case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
Arrion Marcus West, Jr. was charged with:
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children
(1ss)
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children and by Force, Fraud, and Coercion
(2ss)
Price was charged with:
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children and by Force, Fraud, and Coercion ***A LESSER-INCLUDED OFFENSE***
(5sss)
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children and by Force, Fraud, and Coercion ***A LESSER-INCLUDED OFFENSE***
(9sss)
Kendall Andrew Streb with charged with:
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children
(12ss)
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children
(14ss)
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE 21:841(a)(1), 859 Distribution to Person Under Age Twenty-One
(16ss)
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE 21:841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(C) Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine
(17ss)
VIOLENT CRIME/DRUGS/MACHINE GUN 18:924(c)(1)(A)(i) Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime
(18ss)
UNLAWFUL TRANSPORT OF FIREARMS, ETC. 18:922(g)(3), 924(a)(2) Unlawful User in Possession of a Firearm
(19ss)
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children
(26ss)
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE 21:841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(C), 859 Distribution to Person Under Age Twenty-One
(32ss)
Tommy Tate Collins was charged with:
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children and by Force, Fraud, and Coercion ***Lesser Included Offense*** Sex Trafficking of Children, 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2)
(20ss)
Isaiah Devon Patterson was charged with:
SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN OR BY FORCE. FRAUD OR COERCION 18:1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2) Sex Trafficking of Children
(23ss)
Outcome: West was sentenced to 210 months of incarceration as to each of Counts 1ss and 2ss, to be served concurrently. An 8 year term of supervised release to follow as to each of Counts 1ss and 2ss, to be served concurrently. $200 Special Assessment ($100 per count). Restitution in the amount of $50,800.
Albert Kelly Price was sentenced to 348 months of incarceration as to each of Counts 5sss and 9sss, to be served concurrently. An 8 year term of supervised release to follow as to each of Counts 5sss and 9sss, to be served concurrently. $200 Special Assessment ($100 per count). Restitution in the amount of $88,294.
Kendall Andrew Streb was sentenced to 208 months of incarceration as to Counts 12ss, 14ss, 16ss, 17ss, 26ss, and 32ss; and 120 months as to Count 19ss; all counts to be served concurrently with one another and consecutively to 60 months as to Count 18ss, for a total sentence of 268 months. A 6 year term of supervised release to follow as to Counts 12ss, 14ss, 16ss, 17ss, 26ss, and 32ss; 5 years as to Count 18ss; and 3 years as to Count 19ss, with all counts to be served concurrently. $800 Special Assessment ($100 per count). $15,000 JVTA. Restitution in the amount of $80,286.
Tommy Tate Collins was sentenced to 210 months of incarceration with a 5 year term of supervised release to follow. $100 Special Assessment. Restitution in the amount of $40,800.
Isaiah Devon Patterson was sentenced to 144 months of incarceration with a 7 year term of supervised release to follow. $100 Special Assessment.
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