Prostitution Law
 
State of Oklahoma v. K.R.A.V.H.

Sapulpa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer Ben Waters represents the Defendant charged with child abuse. Reported by Kent Morlan 21 O.S. § 843.5 (OSCN 2026), Abuse of Elderly or Disabled Persons or Children A. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously engage in child abuse, as

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United States of America v. Michael Ray Pennington

Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Reported by Kent Morlan In November 2025, federal and local law enforcement conducted an undercover operation to identify and appr

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State of Oklahoma v. Aaron Zachary Milner

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in prostitution in violation of 21 O.S. 1029.A. Reported by: Kent Morlan

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State of Oklahoma v. Kevin Harrison

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with engaging in prostitution in violation of 21 O.S. 1029(A), which provides: A. It shall further be unlawful: 1. To engage in prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; 2. To solicit, induce, or entice another person to pay or provide money or any other item or service of value to engage in an act of lewdness, assig

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State of Oklahoma v. Dorian Bonilla

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with complaints of solicitation of prostitution and violations of the Computer Crimes Act. By Kent Morlan

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United States of America v. Brian Lamont Turner

Charlottesville, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with prostitution racketeering and transporting prostitutes. On multiple occasions throughout 2023 and 2024, Brian Lamont Turner, 45, caused multiple adult victims to travel from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the States of North Carolina and South Carolina for the purpose of engaging in prostitution and other

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United States of America v. Brian Lamont Turner

Charlottesville, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering prostitution and transporting prostitutes. On multiple occasions throughout 2023 and 2024, Brian Lamont Turner, 45, caused multiple adult victims to travel from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the States of North Carolina and South Carolina for the purpose of engaging in prostitution and othe

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United States of America v. Brandon Denzel Washington

Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion for prostitution. Brandon Denzel Washington, age 33, was charged with trafficking four different women. Multiple victims testified about Washington trafficking and transporting them to Washington, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Hawaii between 2014 and 2021. Wash

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United States of America v. Steven Terrell Lewis

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and attempted sex trafficking. Steven Terrell Lewis of El Cajon, was convicted by a federal jury on May 2, 2025. According to evidence presented at trial, on April 22, 2024, as the 14-year-old victim was walking to a friend’s house after school around 3 p.m. in El

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United States of America v. Nomma Zarubina

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false statements to the FBI relating to her relationship with the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (“FSB”), and to naturalization fraud for lying about her involvement in prostitution-related offenses. Nomma Zarubina, age 35, was trying to cultivate relationships with American l

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State of Ohio v. Justin Davis, et al.

Columbus, Ohio, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with committing violent crimes and dealing narcotics to further a human trafficking. The Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force, which is organized under Yost’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC) and led by the Columbus Division of Police, began its investigation in January 2025 after investigator

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State of New York v. Terrence Rogers, a.k.a. "Aura"

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking of a child. Terrence Rogers, a.k.a., Aura, 35, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, was accused of ex trafficking of a child for recruiting multiple victims, including three teenage girls, ages 15 to 17, to engage in sexual conduct for money. The District Attorney said that, according to the investigation, b

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United States of America v. Jamar Greeter, Jada Hasty and Khloe Gregory

Wilmington, Delaware, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with sex trafficking a minor. Jamar Geeter, 38, of California. contacted the minor victim through social media. When the victim told Geeter that she had a difficult home life, Geeter promised to help her and convinced her to travel from her home in North Carolina to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once the victim ar

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State of Vermont v. Ryan Palmer

River Junction, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with 12 counts of soliciting prostitution and other sex crimes. Windsor County Sheriff Ryan Palmer is charged with 12 counts after state troopers received tips about Palmer’s alleged sexual misconduct when investigating his office’s finances.

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United States of America v. Lajai Jamar Pridgette

Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Mann Act conspiracy to transport for prostitution. Lajai Jamar Pridgette, 40, of Boise, engaged in a scheme to make money from commercial sexual activity. Pridgette arranged for two adult females to travel to multiple states to engage in commercial sexual activity. Pridgette also made hotel reservations and posted onl

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United States of America v. Hector L. Duarte

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking children by force fraud or coercion and transporting for prostitution. Hector L. Duarte (age 35) of Union Grove, Wisconsin, is alleged to have used force, threats of force, and fraud to cause an adult victim to engage in commercial sex acts between approximately May 31, 2025, and June 25, 2025,

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United States of America v. Travis Thomas

Rock Island, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with ne count of sex trafficking by force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) and (b)(1); two counts of transporting a victim in interstate commerce with the intent that she engage in prostitution, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a); and two counts of coercing or enticing

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United States of America v. Justin Kagerbauer

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with attempting to travel in interstate or foreign commerce with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. 18 U.S. Code § 2423 - Transportation of minors (a) Transportation With Intent To Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity.— A person who knowingly transports an individual who has not attained the age of 18

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State of Florida v. Chang Yang, Yuping Song, and Yihong Luo

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with prostitution at three massage parlors.

In Florida, all forms of prostitution, solicitation, and related activities are illegal, with penalties increasing for repeat offenses and procurement of a minor.

Penalties range from misdemeanor charges with fines and jail time for a first offense to felonies f

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State of Oklahoma v. Dustin Joel Walker

Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer is representing the Defendant charged sexually abusing a child.
by Kent Morlan

Dustin Joel Walker, age 34, is charged with:

1. SEXUAL ABUSE - CHILD UNDER 12 (FELONY)

2. CHILD NEGLECT (FELONY)

3. CHILD NEGLECT (FELONY)

4. CHILD NEGLECT (FELONY

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United States of America v. Dartez Omar Faulk and Rosalind Carol Comfort

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Trafficking Young Woman .

following a four-day trial, a federal jury in Raleigh convicted Dartez Omar Faulk and Rosalind Carol Comfort of three counts of sex trafficking following a four day trial.

"These depraved reprobates preyed on vulnerable young women to make money from their suffering

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United States of America v. Jonathan Warren Jones

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with enticement of a minor.

18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) is the federal law that makes it illegal to use the mail or any means of interstate or foreign commerce (including the internet) to entice, persuade, induce, or coerce a minor to engage in prostitution or any other criminal sexual activity

Attempt

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United States of America v. Dartez Omar Faulk and Rosalind Carol Comfort

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking

n September 25, 2025, following a four-day trial, a federal jury in Raleigh convicted Dartez Omar Faulk and Rosalind Carol Comfort of three counts of sex trafficking following a four day trial.

"These depraved reprobates preyed on vulnerable young women to make money from their

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United States of America v. Howard Rubin

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking and prostitution.

Between 2009 to 2011, the commercial sex acts primarily occurred at luxury hotels in Manhattan, New York. Beginning in 2011, the defendant HOW ARD RUBIN leased a luxury penthouse apartment located near Central Park, New York (the "Penthouse"). RUBIN and the defendant JENNIFE

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United States of America v. Keenon Green

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted sex trafficking of a
minor, 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) & (b)(2), and attempted sexual enticement of a minor, id. § 2422(b).

Some people use Instagram to keep in touch with friends
and family. Others like to follow their favorite celebrities or
athletes. And then there is Keenon Green

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