OAKLAND — A metropolis resident has been arrested and charged with human trafficking and different felonies for allegedly forcing a girl into prostitution, then holding her towards her will when she tried to get away, courtroom data present.
Ralvell Cullors, 25, is being held with out bail on the Santa Rita Jail on felony costs of human trafficking for industrial intercourse, false imprisonment, and making prison threats. He was arrested final February and is subsequent due in courtroom on Could 12. A separate gun case has additionally been filed towards him, in accordance with jail data.
The charging paperwork allege that Cullors trafficked the sufferer, identified in courtroom data as Jane Doe, from August via December 2021. She informed police she initially agreed to intercourse work, however each time she spoke about quitting, “Cullors would bodily assault (Doe) and threaten her with a firearm,” an Oakland police investigator wrote in a sworn courtroom assertion.
This all got here to a head on Dec. 6, when the sufferer tried to depart Cullors’ residence, in accordance with police. He allegedly backed Doe right into a restroom at gunpoint, locked her inside and threatened to kill her. Investigators say she was capable of escape the residence, leaving her 15-year-old sister inside with Cullors.
Cullors allegedly left in a automobile with Doe’s sister and drove round Oakland for an hour earlier than letting her go. The woman flagged down a police officer and was reunited together with her household later that day, authorities stated.
Authorities obtained an arrest warrant for Cullors, and on Feb. 14 he was booked into Santa Rita Jail. Cullors was ordered to face trial on the fees after a March 25 preliminary listening to earlier than Decide Trina Thompson, in accordance with courtroom data. A trial date has not but been set.