{"id":110385,"date":"2025-12-27T15:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110385\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:47:03","slug":"while-out-on-bail-in-kidnapping-case-oakland-man-charged-with-child-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110385\/","title":{"rendered":"While out on bail in kidnapping case, Oakland man charged with child trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"

OAKLAND \u2014 A man who was arrested on kidnapping charges just seven months ago<\/a> has been charged again, this time with human trafficking, after two girls were allegedly found in his hotel room, court records show.<\/p>\n

Brandon Johnson, 37, was charged last week with human trafficking of a minor, soliciting a child to prostitute and pandering, court records show. At the time of his arrest on Dec. 19, he was out on bail for pending charges of kidnapping a suspected adult sex worker in front of an undercover cop, court records show.<\/p>\n

Police say a relative of a 14-year-old girl called police and told them the girl was with Johnson at the Bay Breeze Inn in Oakland. Police went there and found not only the girl, but a 15-year-old girl, as well as a replica gun in Johnson\u2019s hotel room, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Authorities allege that Johnson met one of the girl\u2019s when she was at a youth crisis center in San Francisco and had been with her for several weeks. He reportedly gave the girls $500 daily quotas, instructing them to be sexually abused by adult strangers for as long as it took to make that amount, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Johnson was arrested and charged back in May after an undercover officer allegedly saw him throwing a woman in a bikini into his vehicle and driving off, as she screamed for help. He posted $100,000 bail and was released from jail, records show. Johnson\u2019s lawyer refuted the charges by arguing that the woman police identified as the victim denied it, and said she witnessed a different person throwing a different woman in his car.<\/p>\n

Now Johnson is back behind bars at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, with bail set at $670,000, records show. He has pleaded not guilty and is due in court next on Jan. 12.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s arrest was one of two near-identical incidents that occurred in Oakland that week. On Dec. 15, Oakland police rescued two runaway teen girls<\/a>, aged 14 and 15, and arrested their alleged trafficker, Terrell Williams, who was later charged with rape, statutory rape and crimes related to alleged sex trafficking, court records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A man who was arrested on kidnapping charges just seven months ago has been charged again,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,59204,3650,143,47442,145,144,12906],"class_list":["post-110385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-child-trafficking","tag-human-trafficking","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-arrest","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-prostitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}