Crime & Safety

Mount Olive Man, 23, Pimped Out Teen: Morris County Prosecutor

Michael Keenan​, 23, drove the teen to Mt. Olive hotels to have sex and collected some of the money for himself, police said.

MORRISTOWN, N.J.– A Mount Olive man was arrested Thursday and charged with human trafficking, promoting prostitution and child endangerment after pimping out a 17-year-old girl, authorities said.

Between Nov. 11 and 21, Michael Keenan, 23, drove the teen to hotels in Mount Olive to have sex, according to Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp.

Keenan kept some of the money for himself, Knapp said.

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Keenan is being held at the Morris County Correctional Facility in lieu of $150,000 bail, according to Knapp.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Detective/Supervisor Marshall Wang of the Morris County Prosecutor's Office Sex Crimes/Child Endangerment Unit of the at (973) 285-6200.

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