Charles Mario Brown, Sex Trafficking, Maryland 2016

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Baltimore Man Sentenced to 7 Years for Sex Trafficking Minor

A 48-year-old Baltimore man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for his role in a sex trafficking conspiracy involving a 16-year-old female, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland.

Charles Mario Brown, Sr. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow after admitting to operating a prostitution business involving the minor female and at least four adult females who performed commercial sex acts in the Baltimore area.

According to the plea agreement, Brown and his co-conspirator met the 16-year-old victim in November 2016 while she was walking in Baltimore. The conspirators directed the victim to meet with sex customers who called or sent text messages in response to online prostitution advertisements featuring the victim, which were posted by the conspirators.

The conspirators agreed to provide the victim with food and a place to stay in exchange for money she earned through commercial sex acts, and bought her lingerie that she wore in photos taken for prostitution ads. Brown drove the victim to outcalls, where she engaged in commercial sex acts and collected payment.

On December 9, 2016, an undercover Harford County Sheriff’s Office detective contacted a phone number found in the cell phone of a deceased male sex customer who had suffered a fatal heroin overdose in a hotel room in Edgewood, Maryland. The detective contacted the phone number to arrange an overnight commercial sex date at a hotel in Edgewood and to request heroin.

As detailed in the plea agreement, Brown and the co-conspirator transported the victim and an adult female to the hotel. The victim and the woman went into the hotel room identified by the detective. Investigators recognized the victim from prostitution ads posted online, and the victim identified herself by the name listed in those ads. Brown and his co-conspirator, who were waiting in the SUV outside the hotel room, were arrested and their cell phones were seized.

Forensic examination of the cell phones revealed numerous communications in furtherance of the prostitution business.

This case was investigated by law enforcement agencies who are members of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, formed in 2007 to discover and rescue victims of human trafficking while identifying and prosecuting offenders.

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