Kevondric Fezia, Sex Trafficking, Louisiana 2022

Kevondric Fezia, Sex Trafficking, Louisiana 2022

LAFAYETTE, La. – Kevondric Fezia, 26, of Houston, Texas, has been sentenced to 327 months (27 years, 3 months) in prison for sex trafficking and attempting to entice a minor to engage in prostitution. Calista Jenee Winfrey, 23, of Orange, Texas, was sentenced to 36 months (3 years) in prison for sex trafficking.

Both defendants will serve 5 years of supervised release after their release from prison. In addition, Fezia and Winfrey were each ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,500. The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations and the Lake Charles Police Department.

According to evidence presented in the case, beginning in November 2020, Fezia was recruiting minor females to engage in prostitution and began communicating with a 14-year-old female in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Fezia was well aware when he began communicating with her that she was a minor, but still pursued her and tried to convince her that she would profit by engaging in prostitution through him.

Both defendants traveled with the minor victim to a hotel in Beaumont, Texas and introduced her to a 16-year-old prostitute that was also working for Fezia. Winfrey engaged in multiple acts of prostitution in the presence of the minor victim at the hotel, continually trying to convince the minor victim that she should also engage in prostitution.

Fezia took photographs of both minor girls and the other prostitutes he was employing. He then posted them on his Instagram account as an advertisement, along with a visible geo tag showing those who saw the advertisement where to go to engage in sexual acts with the girls. The minor victim’s grandmother realized that she had run away from home, she began looking at the child’s social media accounts and found the communications between her granddaughter and Fezia.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys J. Luke Walker and John W. Nickel. The investigation was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations and the Lake Charles Police Department. Fezia was convicted by a jury in Lafayette following a two-day trial and Winfrey pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in February 2022.

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