Antoine Lamar Wallace, Human Trafficking, North Carolina 2016

A Garner man, Antoine Lamar Wallace, has been sentenced to 156 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and aiding and abetting. The sentencing took place on an unspecified date.

Court records and evidence presented at the trial of co-defendant Jonathan Lynn Jenkins revealed that Wallace and Jenkins prostituted many women between November 2014 and October 2015, including minors. The victims were young, vulnerable, and often struggling to survive. After luring the victims with promises of food, shelter, and a better life, Wallace and Jenkins manipulated and controlled the victims’ lives, isolating them, abusing them, and keeping all money the victims earned.

Wallace’s co-defendant, Jonathan Lynn Jenkins, was convicted of multiple human trafficking charges at a federal trial in February. Jenkins, the ringleader of the two, was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences.

The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security – Homeland Security Investigations, the Raleigh Police Department, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lucy Brown and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Blondel prosecuted the case.

G. Norman Acker, III, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge James C. Dever III.

Related court documents and information can be found on the website of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina or on PACER by searching for Case No. 5:18-CR-451-D.

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