Bolingbrook Cab Driver Gets 47 Years For Forcing Women Into Prostitution

A Bolingbrook cab driver was sentenced to 47 years in federal prison for forcing four young women into prostitution and running a brutal sex trafficking ring.

McKenzie “Casino” Carson, 43, “used violence and coercion to force his victims into working as prostitutes in Chicago and nearby suburbs,” according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “Carson frequently provided the victims with heroin, and he controlled how much of the drug each victim was allowed to use. One of the victims was 17 years old at the time Carson ran his pimping operation in 2010.”

A jury found Carson guilty of four counts of sex trafficking in December 2013.

Carson was arrested at his Bolingbrook home in January 2012. The Shorewood Police Department assisted in taking him down.

“The defendant’s conduct here was particularly brutal and sadistic, and has caused irreparable harm to his victims,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennie Levin argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum. “He instilled into them fear, intimidation and humiliation.”

Evidence showed that Carson recruited and groomed his victims, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

“In addition to supplying his victims with heroin, Carson used threats and physical beatings to assert control over them,” the office’s statement said. “When the victims broke his rules or disobeyed him, Carson often raped them. He also required his victims to commit commercial sex acts, and to give him the money they earned.”

Carson off and on as a taxi driver in Chicago and the suburbs.