Posted on 04/24/2017 12:09:27 PM PDT by Gamecock
CHARLOTTE, NC Inside the Mecklenburg County Jail, Zerrell Fuentes came up with a plan to have his wife, mother and three underage girls help him make bail, prosecutors say.
Now all three members of the Charlotte family face an even longer stay behind bars.
An eight-count indictment issued Friday accuses Fuentes, 22, wife Brianna Wright Fuentes, 24, and his mother Tanya Fuentes, 53, with conspiring to traffic the girls for commercial sex acts in Myrtle Beach. All three face multiple sex-trafficking offenses.
The two-week operation involved three Charlotte girls, all under 18, whom Ferrell recruited while he was in jail, prosecutors say.
Fuentes also used a jail telephone to arrange for his mother and wife to drive the girls to Myrtle Beach where they would be earn money from sex – with the profits coming back to Charlotte to help Fuentes, who was being held on federal firearms charges, raise bail. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte says the criminal conspiracy took place a year ago.
The Fuentes family is a familiar one at the Mecklenburg jail. Records indicate that Zerrell Fuentes has been arrested at least five times on repeated theft, robbery and firearms charges. Tanya Fuentes’ arrest record includes multiple driving under the influence charges and a hit and run, among other alleged crimes.
Under the latest indictment, the three face a minimum of 10 years in prison for each of the eight trafficking charges and up to a $250,000 fine. Zerrell Fuentes’ unrelated federal firearms charge carries up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine.
The wife and mother were scheduled to be in federal court Monday morning.
Who is Ferrell? Or is that a typo?
Family is everything. /S
Dreamers?
He can pay for his attorney the same way.
Sometimes you just have to shake your head in disbelief at what people will do.
So he’s in jail facing some serious charges. And the plan is to have others engage in criminal activity to raise money so he can make bail.
Yes what could go wrong?????
Zerrell Fuentes, so I assume Ferrell is a typo combining the first name with the first letter replaced with the first letter of his last name.
Arrested five times. He’s not paying off the right people.
“””....whom Ferrell recruited while he was in jail, prosecutors say.”””
How did he do that? He had to have help from someone inside.
And the plan is to have others engage in criminal activity to raise money so he can make bail.
= = =
OH Here is the reason that Calif is trying to “Reform” the bail system - it is unfair.
Stop crime by letting him out, no bail.
Nobody left to pimp
Why would they turn tricks for him?
The two-week operation involved three Charlotte girls, all under 18, whom Ferrell recruited while he was in jail, prosecutors say.
Whew!
For a moment I mis-read this as to being THEIR own offspring!!
You can’t fix stupid. Proof # 3,459,098 of why you can’t.
Very funny, thanks for the bedtime laugh.
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