SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – A 33-year-old San Francisco man and an 18-year-old Stockton lady have been arrested on suspicion of abducting a 22-year-old lady and forcing her to work as a prostitute, police stated.
At 6 a.m. Sunday, officers had been referred to as to the world of South Airport Boulevard and Wondercolor Lane in South San Francisco for a report of a lady who had been assaulted by a person armed with a gun, the South San Francisco Police Division stated in a information launch.
Officers discovered the sufferer at a enterprise on the 300 block of South Airport Boulevard.
The suspects had been discovered close by in a automobile and had been taken into custody, police stated.
An investigation revealed the sufferer had been kidnapped at gunpoint early Sunday in Oakland; South San Francisco police didn't launch an actual location. Police stated the suspects drove the sufferer to South San Francisco, the place they assaulted her. She was then compelled to prostitute herself in Oakland and San Francisco, police stated.
Police stated the sufferer had beforehand participated in prostitution underneath the course of the San Francisco man, who was her pimp. When the lady didn’t need to interact within the exercise anymore, the person discovered, kidnapped and assaulted her and compelled her to prostitute herself, authorities stated.
The sufferer was taken again to South San Francisco, the place she was held in a resort room towards her will, police stated. She finally escaped her captors and referred to as for assist.
The suspects had been booked into San Mateo County jail. The San Francisco man was booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a criminal offense, false imprisonment, human trafficking, pandering by procuring, prison threats, pimping, stalking and kidnapping for ransom. The Stockton lady was booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a criminal offense, false imprisonment, prison threats, stalking and kidnapping for ransom.
On the time of his arrest, the person was on post-release neighborhood supervision for pandering, police stated.
The sufferer acquired providers by means of the San Mateo County Human Trafficking Initiative and was reunited along with her household, police stated. The lady wasn’t believed to have been at-risk earlier than the kidnapping.