OAKLAND — A Stockton man pleaded no contest to pimping a teen lady, as a part of a plea take care of Alameda County prosecutors that acquired extra severe human trafficking expenses dismissed and led to his launch from jail, courtroom information present.
Demarea Canada, 31, pleaded no contest to pimping and making threats, and was sentenced July 28 to 319 days in jail — time that he has already served. He was launched from jail the identical day, and should serve a two-year probation time period, in keeping with courtroom information.
Canada was arrested and charged final 12 months after an undercover operation on Worldwide Boulevard in Oakland, the place police detained a lady lower than 15 years outdated and transported her to protecting custody, in keeping with courtroom information. The lady allegedly advised authorities that she’d been in a “shut relationship” with Canada for a month and wished him to be her boyfriend. She mentioned he took her throughout California, together with the Bay Space, for functions of intercourse trafficking, Oakland police Ofc. Kathryn Reymundo wrote in courtroom information.
Police decided the lady had run away from dwelling in one other a part of California, and got here up with a ruse to lure Canada to the police station: Reymundo known as his cellphone and suggested Canada the lady had been picked up in a harmful space and wanted to be launched to a accountable grownup; Canada was arrested when he confirmed as much as get her, in keeping with police.
Canada agreed to the plea deal in late June, a month earlier than he was formally sentenced, in keeping with courtroom information.