{"id":467497,"date":"2026-09-18T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467497\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:30:10","slug":"man-sentenced-to-prison-for-pimping-girl-in-oakland-days-after-release-from-prison-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467497\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to prison for pimping girl in Oakland, days after release from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

OAKLAND \u2014 A man accused of trafficking a teen girl days<\/a> after he was released from state prison for attempted pimping has been sentenced to six years and eight months behind bars, court records show,<\/p>\n

Jordan Townsend, 28, pleaded no contest to pimping and to a burglary charge in a separate case from 2020, records show. He was sent to prison in June and remains incarcerated in Corcoran.<\/p>\n

Townsend was arrested in 2025 and charged with trafficking the then-17-year-old, who he allegedly stayed in touch with while serving the attempted pimping sentence in Ironwood State Prison. In one call, he allegedly told her \u201cI\u2019m gonna get you,\u201d when he got out, but the girl later told police she interpreted the remark to be \u201clighthearted.\u201d Twelve days after being paroled, he allegedly found the girl and began trafficking her in Oakland.<\/p>\n

At Townsend\u2019s August 2025 preliminary hearing, the teen took the stand, answering \u201cI don\u2019t recall\u201d 25 times and generally describing Townsend in positive terms. She came forward to police during a drug-induced haze after staying awake for two days, according to court records.<\/p>\n

At the hearing\u2019s end, a judge upheld the human trafficking count but said there wasn\u2019t enough evidence to support the allegation that Townsend had used \u201cforce, fear, deceit, or violence\u201d to victimize the girl.<\/p>\n

In a sentencing memo, Townsend\u2019s lawyer said that Townsend endured a \u201cvery challenging upbringing\u201d and that the girl conceded to authorities she \u201cworked for years as an independent prostitute in a variety of cities across California.\u201d His client is \u201cremorseful,\u201d Deputy Public Defender Matthew Dalton added.<\/p>\n

Oakland police said in court filings that the same girl was present with Townsend in San Diego \u2014 when she was 13 \u2014 in a vehicle with two adult sex workers. That led to the underlying attempted pimping charge and the four-year prison term, according to court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A man accused of trafficking a teen girl days after he was released from state prison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,184039,143,145,12905,144,54615],"class_list":["post-467497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-ironwood-state-prison","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-human-trafficking","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-pimping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467497","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=467497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}