OAKLAND — A city resident has been sentenced to two years of probation for pimping a woman who testified she met the defendant on TikTok when she was living out of her car, and that he offered to let her live with him before recruiting her into prostitution, court records show.
Devontay Williams, 33, pleaded no contest to pimping and gun possession charges as part of a plea deal with Alameda County prosecutors. If he violates his probation, he could be sentenced up to six years and eight months in prison, a judge warned him before he was sentenced. The plea deal was finalized in mid-February, court records show.
At Williams’ March 2025 preliminary hearing, the alleged victim testified that she met Williams in person on Valentine’s Day that year, and he offered to let her live in his Oakland apartment.
“I was cold, I was hungry, I didn’t want to stay in my car too much longer,” she testified. Later, after she agreed to be a sex worker for him, he pulled a gun on her during a dispute, she testified.
But the woman’s time on the stand was also contentious and erratic at times. When Judge Delia Trevino sustained a defense objection, for instance, she exclaimed, “I don’t care what you’re talking about. Like this is my story and I’m going to tell it.” When Trevino warned her to only answer lawful questions, she threatened to “walk off this board.”
“Like, I don’t have to sit here,” the woman said. Later, she cursed at Williams’ public defender and taunted her, saying, “you’re not going to win this case.”
The woman testified she’d been a sex worker earlier in life, before she met Williams, and police say they stayed together for about 10 days before he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence against her. Williams’ probation terms include a stay-away order from the woman, and a $300 restitution fine, court records show.