The defendants rented hotel rooms to house the women and to serve as a place to prostitute, which they paid for with prepaid gift and debit cards.
The defendants used the internet to recruit women to work as prostitutes, and to advertise sex services. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Anne Arundel County Police Chief Tim Altomare.Īccording to their plea agreements, from at least 2012 to his arrest in August 2013, Lee was a pimp who used social media websites to entice females to prostitute for him. Rosenstein Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. The guilty pleas were announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Lee also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sex trafficking by force and fraud. Baltimore, Maryland – Robert Downing, a/k/a “Luck,” and “Shamrock,” age 46, and Michael Wesley Lee, a/k/a “King,” or “King P,” age 31, both of Odenton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to use of an interstate facility to promote a prostitution business.
