A Dallas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to trafficking hundreds of women in North Texas. Tremont Blakemore, 42, who also goes by the nickname “Macknificent,”...
hundreds of women in North TexasTremont Blakemore, 42, who also goes by the nickname “Macknificent,” admitted not only to running a large-scale trafficking organization, but to using violence to force women to “engage in commercial sex acts for his financial benefit,” the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas said.
“This defendant systematically brutalized his victims, convincing them that they had no choice but to live life according to his dictates,” U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham said in a written statement. “We hope that this guilty plea will be a balm to survivors as they work to rebuild their lives.”arrested in September 2018 at a home in Fort Worth
where officials found 11 women; they discovered four more women at a Lancaster location. Authorities believe Blakemore may have manipulated hundreds of women in several other Texas cities, along with women from Maine, Montana and Wyoming. The U.S. attorney’s office said Blakemore admitted forcing those women to travel cross-country for commercial sex. He then demanded the women turn over all proceeds to him and required them to seek permission for any personal expenses.
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