Man Gets 6 Years Behind Bars For Pimping In Orange County

ORANGE COUNTY, CA – A 23-year-old Sacramento man who pimped a woman and crashed into an unmarked police vehicle before fleeing to Northern California pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Fullerton Thursday and was sentenced to six years in state prison. Treshawn William Johnson pleaded guilty to one felony count of pimping and a misdemeanor count of hit and run with property damage, according to Roxi Fyad of the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

Prosecutors charged that for a year until May, Johnson induced the woman to "engage in commercial sex acts in areas known for prostitution and human trafficking in Orange County,'' Fyad said. "The defendant posted sexually explicit advertisements of Jane Doe soliciting commercial sex and used the money she received from sex purchasers for his benefit,'' Fyad said.

Investigators with Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force arranged a meeting with the woman at an Anaheim hotel on May 17 and saw her getting out of a car driven by Johnson, "but when they attempted to contact Johnson, he accelerated his car, crashing into an unmarked police vehicle and fled the scene,'' Fyad said.

"Johnson fled to Northern California shortly thereafter,'' she said.

Johnson was arrested in Northern California and was taken back to Orange County on July 8, Fyad said.

The task force is a partnership involving the Anaheim, Huntington Beach,Irvine and Santa Ana police departments; the California Highway Patrol, FBI and Orange County District Attorney's Office and sheriff's department. It also includes community and nonprofit partners, Fyad said.

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