Cali Pimp Charged with Sex Trafficking Minors

Brown allegedly beat the minor girls with various items, including cords and wire hangers

August 14, 2008

SACRAMENTO CA NEWS -- Aaron Pierre Brown, 28, of Hayward, California, who was incarcerated in Folsom State Prison, has been charged with federal violations including sexual trafficking of children and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Brown was arrested by FBI agents at the Folsom Prison on August 8, 2008, where he was serving a sentence for a parole violation. Brown in his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Sacramento waived his right to be tried in Sacramento, and it is anticipated that he will be transported to Los Angeles to face prosecution. The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles charges Brown with:

• Title 18 U.S.Code Section 1591 (a)(1), sex trafficking of minors by force, fraud, and coercion
• Title 18 U.S.Code Section 2423(a), transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

According to the criminal complaint, Aaron Pierre Brown controlled a prostitution operation in which he pimped minor females. Brown, who allegedly advertised the services of the minor girls on an Internet website, is accused of beating the minors and forcing them to comply with his demands. Brown allegedly took sexually explicit photographs of the minors and used some of them to advertise prostitution services on the Internet. According to the complaint, Brown encouraged at least one victim to read a book he allegedly authored which contained rules the minor had to obey while working as a prostitute. According to the complaint, victims alleged that Brown controlled everything and would force victims to work on "tracks," in his apartment and in hotels throughout California and in Arizona. Victims claimed they were afraid they would be beaten if they kept prostitution earnings from Brown, according to the complaint. Brown allegedly beat the victims with various items, including cords and wire hangers, among others, according to the complaint.

In September 2007, a search warrant was executed by police at Brown's home in Hayward, California. Evidence of the prostitution operation was found, and a forensic examination of Brown's computer revealed several hundred sexually explicit images of minor girls.

Aaron Pierre Brown's arrest is the result of an ongoing investigation by:

• FBI's SAFE Team in the Los Angeles Field Office
• Los Angeles Police Department's Vice Division, the FBI in Sacramento, San Francisco and Arizona
• California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation
• Sacramento Police Department
• Oakland Police Department
• Hayward Police Department
• Toledo Police Department.

A criminal complaint contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The investigation was conducted as part of the FBI's Innocence Lost Initiative. The Innocence Lost Initiative was developed in the Spring of 2003, when the FBI'S Violent Crime and Major Offenders Unit, in partnership with the Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, increased efforts to address the growing problem of children forced into prostitution.

Aaron Pierre Brown's sex trafficking and prostitution case will be prosecuted by the United States Attorneys Office in Los Angeles, California.

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