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February 5, 2015Alexandria, VA, United StatesHuman Smuggling/Trafficking

Houston man pleads guilty to sex trafficking of a child

Faces life in prison for prostituting more than 55 women including a minor

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Houston man pleaded guilty Friday to sex trafficking of a child. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Fairfax County Police Department, with assistance from the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office, the Henrico County Police Department, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office and the Lynchburg Police Department.

Michael Anthony Randall, aka “Divine tha Victorious Mack,” 32, previously from Charlottesville, Virginia, and Galveston, Texas, but mostly recently from Houston, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

In a statement of facts filed with the plea agreement, Randall admitted he was a member of a sex trafficking venture that was sometimes known as “Horse Block Pimpin’.” The sex trafficking venture operated from at least 2009 to 2013. Randall used force and coercion to maintain control over his victims and to keep them from leaving. He and other members of this venture used force, threats of force and coercion to prostitute more than 55 women and girls, some of whom were minors.

Randall prostituted victims in several different states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. He held a supervisory role in the sex trafficking venture, which included recruiting, harboring and prostituting women and girls, and arranging for the transportation of girls and women who were prostituted. Among other things, he used false promises of a better life, force and coercion to recruit women and keep them involved in the venture. The victims were required to give nearly all of the prostitution proceeds to Randall and other co-conspirators of Horse Block Pimpin’.

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