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New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty in Nationwide Prostitution Scheme

NEW ORLEANS – Randy Jonal Schenck, 41, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana and Downey, California, pleaded guilty to Counts 1 and 7 of a pending indictment on May 10, 2022 before United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe in New Orleans, Louisiana.

According to court documents, Schenck met Dominique Berry in New Orleans in about early 2013 and soon developed a romantic relationship. Shortly thereafter, Schenck encouraged Berry to engage in commercial sex activities, including prostitution, in the New Orleans area and became involved in the scheduling, coordination, and facilitation of Berry’s commercial sex acts. Schenck typically kept all, or most, of the proceeds of the commercial sex acts.

Beginning in about March 2014, and continuing through September 2017, Schenck and Berry travelled nationally engaging in their prostitution enterprise, including through California, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Georgia. In furtherance of the enterprise, Berry regularly engaged in commercial sex acts on multiple days of nearly every week between about March 2014 and September 2017.

Schenck and Berry posted numerous advertisements containing photographs of Berry on multiple location-specific online classified ad service websites and social media applications in that invited interested individuals to contact Berry to schedule sexual interactions, many of which were explicitly commercial.

Beginning in about 2015, the prostitution enterprise evolved to include a scheme to defraud, whereby Schenck caused Berry to arrange “out call” interactions at the residences of men who met her through online postings. While at the residences, Berry placed substances in the beverages of the men for the purpose of “spiking” their drinks and rendering them unconscious. Berry then took items of value from the incapacitated men, including jewelry, firearms, electronics, cash, and debit and credit cards.

Schenck faces up to five years in prison as to Count 1 and up to twenty years in prison as to Count 7, a fine of up to $250,000.00, up to three years of supervised release after imprisonment, and a mandatory $100 special assessment per count. Schenck may also be ordered to pay restitution to his victims. Sentencing before Judge Ashe has been scheduled for August 18, 2021, at 1:30 p.m.

U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans praised the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in investigating this matter and expressed appreciation for the support of the law enforcement agencies involved.