Three people, including one from Monroe County and another from Northampton County, are charged in a multi-county sex trafficking ring, according to authorities.
Thomas Cory Green, 33, of Effort, the alleged leader of the group, is charged with trafficking individuals, rape and aggravated assault, Attorney General Dave Sunday said Thursday in a news release.
Christopher Williams, 32, of Easton and Quindell Bowers, 27, of Lithia Springs, Georgia, also are charged with trafficking in individuals, involuntary servitude and related offenses, Sunday said.
Green used violence, intimidation and emotional manipulation to compel victims to perform “commercial sex acts” in various counties, including Lehigh, Luzerne and Lackawanna, the AG said. The alleged incidents happened between 2023 and November 2025.
The AG’s office alleged Green used his prior criminal convictions for violence and alleged gang affiliation to scare and control the victims, many of whom reported that he was violent toward them, and they feared aggression if they did not engage in sex acts on his behalf.
Once under his control, he would set up advertisements on websites frequented by sex traffickers to solicit buyers, the AG said. Green controlled the ads and collected some or all of the money received for the sex acts, the release states.
Green was arraigned on the charges last week. Arraigning District Judge Colleen Mancuso denied him bail, saying that he is “extremely dangerous,” and no condition will make the community safe, according to court records.
Williams was arraigned on the charges last week and sent to Monroe County Prison on $500,000 bail. Bowers has not been arrested as of Thursday, court records state.
“Defendant Green used violence and his criminal past to invoke fear in these women, whom he devalued as people and viewed solely as a means to make money,” Sunday said in the release. “This type of collaboration with Pennsylvania State Police is precisely why we formed a Human Trafficking Section, to coordinate large-scale investigations targeting traffickers and providing resources to the survivors.”