{"id":483045,"date":"2026-10-02T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483045\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:16:10","slug":"emeryville-man-charged-with-threatening-woman-into-sex-trafficking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483045\/","title":{"rendered":"Emeryville man charged with threatening woman into sex trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 An Emeryville man has been charged with trafficking a woman while on probation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/12\/08\/penalty-for-men-accused-of-robbing-oakland-sex-buyers-probation-for-one-9-days-in-jail-for-the-other\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stealing money from a sex buyer last year,<\/a> court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Andrew Silva, 25, was charged with human trafficking, pimping, pandering and domestic violence, and has been released from jail after pleading not guilty on Sept. 28, records show. Silva was charged last year with robbery in an alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/07\/29\/men-come-to-oaklands-blade-expecting-sex-for-money-sometimes-instead-they-get-robbed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">scheme to set up sex buyers with a woman<\/a>, but received a two-year probation term after agreeing to plead no contest to grand theft.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, a woman accused Silva of threatening to kill her and her kids if she didn\u2019t agree to be his prostitute. An Oakland police investigator said the threats also involved physical violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring this time (Silva) would threaten (the woman) by pointing and hitting (her) with a black handgun in the face and head,\u201d police allege in the arrest report. \u201c(Silva) would also choke (her) until she passed out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next court date has been set for Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>In Silva\u2019s 2025 case, police alleged that his co-defendant was picked up by a man and brought him to a local Motel 6, where Silva robbed him at gunpoint for $300 and car keys. Silva\u2019s probation was set to expire in late 2027, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 An Emeryville man has been charged with trafficking a woman while on probation for stealing money&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,863,145,12905,144,12906],"class_list":["post-483045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-crime","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-human-trafficking","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-prostitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483045","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=483045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}