OAKLAND \u2014 A 33-year-old man was arrested and charged with human trafficking of a 15-year-old girl after she ran away from her home in the Central Valley, court records show.<\/p>\n
Police say Phillip Gipson, of Oakland, who uses a wheelchair, provided \u201crides and protection\u201d for the alleged sex trafficking victim, who told police she gave Gipson $600 to $1,000 in proceeds every night. Gipson was arrested after the girl called police on March 26 and reported that she was a teen runaway who was being trafficked, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Police responded to Gipson\u2019s home on Brookdale Avenue, where he and the girl had reportedly been living together, and arrested him, according to court records.<\/p>\n
The girl initially identified Gipson to police as \u201cJamal,\u201d describing him as her boyfriend, but investigators later identified Gipson as the suspect. He has been charged with human trafficking of a minor, pimping a child, and pandering, with an offense date range that covers an eight-month period, starting last August, court records show.<\/p>\n
The girl told police that she initially pretended she was 18 but later informed Gipson of her real age, authorities said in court filings.<\/p>\n
Gipson pleaded not guilty at an April 17 court appearance, where Judge Thomas Reardon granted a defense motion to release him without bail while the case is pending. Reardon\u2019s order says Gipson is to have \u201cno contact with minors.\u201d<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing, where a judge will review the prosecution\u2019s evidence and decide if there is enough to order Gipson to stand trial, has been set for May 29, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A 33-year-old man was arrested and charged with human trafficking of a 15-year-old girl after she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120886,862,143,863,145,12905,144,54615,120885],"class_list":{"0":"post-282054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-brookdale-avenue-oakland","9":"tag-california-crime","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-crime","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-human-trafficking","14":"tag-oakland-news","15":"tag-oakland-pimping","16":"tag-phillip-gipson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282054","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=282054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}