OAKLAND \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
At Williams\u2019 March 2025 preliminary hearing, the alleged victim testified that she met Williams in person on Valentine\u2019s Day that year, and he offered to let her live in his Oakland apartment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was cold, I was hungry, I didn\u2019t want to stay in my car too much longer,\u201d she testified. Later, after she agreed to be a sex worker for him, he pulled\u00a0a gun on her during a dispute, she testified.<\/p>\n
But the woman\u2019s time on the stand was also contentious and erratic at times. When Judge Delia Trevino sustained a defense objection, for instance, she exclaimed, \u201cI don\u2019t care what you\u2019re talking about. Like this is my story and I\u2019m going to tell it.\u201d When Trevino warned her to only answer lawful questions, she threatened to \u201cwalk off this board.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, I don\u2019t have to sit here,\u201d the woman said. Later, she cursed at Williams\u2019 public defender and taunted her, saying, \u201cyou\u2019re not going to win this case.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman testified she\u2019d 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\u2019 probation terms include a stay-away order from the woman, and a $300 restitution fine, court records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A city resident has been sentenced to two years of probation for pimping a woman who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,145,144,43351,12906],"class_list":{"0":"post-210612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-bay-area-crime","9":"tag-california-crime","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-oakland-pimp","14":"tag-oakland-prostitution"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210612","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=210612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}