OAKLAND \u2014 Police were responding to a report of an adult sex worker being beaten and robbed in a local hotel, when they inadvertently rescued a missing 16-year-old girl from Southern California, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Now the man allegedly driving her around, identified in court papers as Jordan Sanders, 28, of Stockton, has been charged with human trafficking of a minor.<\/p>\n
Sanders, jailed in lieu of $200,000 bail, was allegedly tied to both victims in the Sept. 7 incident. Police identified him as the longtime pimp of the hotel beating victim, and say he was trafficking the girl, forcing her to work off a $5,000 fee to earn her freedom.<\/p>\n
Alameda County prosecutors charged Sanders with soliciting a minor and pandering, and say he has three prior felony convictions.<\/p>\n
It all started around 8 p.m. on Sept. 7, when a woman called police to report that being robbed of $500 while a man dragged her around the Palms Motel on West MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, authorities said. The alleged robber, identified as a 20-year-old suspected sex worker from Los Angeles, was arrested days later but hasn\u2019t been charged, court records show.<\/p>\n
Police identified Sanders as the suspected attacker and tracked him down on 9th Avenue and International Boulevard the following day. When they pulled him over in a Kia K5, the girl was with him in the vehicle, along with eight condoms and a motel key, according to police.<\/p>\n
The girl told authorities she was trying to pay Sanders $5,000 so that she could leave him and return to a previous pimp, according to investigators. Officers noted that she had a lump on her forehead.<\/p>\n
In a police interview, Sanders admitted to getting into an argument with his girlfriend at the motel but denied participating in a beating or robbery. He couldn\u2019t explain why the girl \u2014 a runaway from Southern California \u2014 was in his vehicle, according to police.<\/p>\n
Sanders\u2019 preliminary hearing has been set for Oct. 20, where a judge will review evidence and decide if there\u2019s enough to uphold the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Police were responding to a report of an adult sex worker being beaten and robbed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,47441,157359,143,145,144,190302,190301],"class_list":["post-487846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-human-trafficking","tag-human-trafficking-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-runaway","tag-santa-monica-runaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487846","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=487846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}