{"id":484708,"date":"2026-10-04T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484708\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:50:33","slug":"oakland-man-sentenced-to-8-years-for-human-trafficking-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484708\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland man sentenced to 8 years for human trafficking conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Oakland man was sentenced Thursday to eight years in federal prison for taking part in a conspiracy to force people into commercial sex work, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Simon, 37, was sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/human-trafficking\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/tag\/human-trafficking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">human trafficking<\/a> by force, fraud or coercion. Simon was charged May 26 and pleaded guilty July 16.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional roundup in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland man was sentenced Thursday to eight years in federal prison for taking part in a conspiracy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49162,3650,21219,143,145,144,2897,26468,27933,189574],"class_list":["post-484708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-federal-prison","tag-human-trafficking","tag-northern-district-of-california","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sentencing","tag-sex-trafficking","tag-u-s-attorneys-office","tag-violence-against-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484708","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=484708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}