Two Hyattsville, Maryland men were both sentenced today to
26 years in prison for sex trafficking three minors throughout the East Coast
from September through November 2016.
Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy
Doherty-McCormick for the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director in
Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Fairfax County
Chief of Police Colonel Edwin C. Roessler Jr. and Chief Humberto I. Cardounel
Jr. of Henrico County Police Division, made the announcement.
Dennis Davis Jr. aka Dee, 26, and Ivan Williams aka Lucci,
28, were sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III of the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Ellis ordered Davis and Williams to
serve 10 years of supervised release following their 312-month prison
sentence. Both defendants were ordered
to register as sex offenders. Davis and
Williams were each found guilty by a federal jury on Jan. 10, 2018, of three
counts of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex
trafficking.
According to evidence presented at trial and court
documents, Davis and Williams sex trafficked three underage girls while working
with their convicted co-conspirators, Chelsea Canterbury aka Katt, 26, and
Rebecca Hamilton aka Becca, 22, also of Hyattsville, Maryland. Davis, Williams and their co-conspirators
recruited the three underage girls, whom they trafficked in numerous locations,
including Northern Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Maryland; Washington, D.C. and
Atlanta, Georgia. They worked together
to post online advertisements of the victims on websites such as Backpage.com
offering them for commercial sex with men throughout the region; reserved hotel
rooms at which they and the victims would stay when traveling to engage in
commercial sex acts; drove the victims to the hotels and other locations where
the commercial sex acts occurred; and collected the money given to the victims
by the commercial sex customers. The
evidence further showed that when two of the minors tried to leave the group,
Davis and Williams resorted to violence, including physical force and
brandishing firearms. Davis and Williams
used the money earned by the victims to create rap music where they bragged
about exploiting females, and to fund their day-to-day living expenses.
The FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force investigated the
case with substantial assistance from the Fairfax County Police Department and
the Henrico County Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen C. Cain of the Eastern District of
Virginia and Trial Attorney Jessica L. Urban of the Criminal Division’s Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) prosecuted the case.
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