A Florida bondsman was jailed for purportedly asking incarcerated females for sex for bailing them out, Attorney General Ashley Moody announced Tuesday.
Russell Bruce Moncrief, 75, the proprietor of Moncrief Bail Bonds, which has areas in numerous Florida areas, is charged of human trafficking and racketeering, to name a few costs, according to the news.
According to Moody, Moncrief targeted females in area prison and others that had actually been jailed on hooking and/or medication costs. After bailing the females out, Moncrief kept his power over them by intimidating to withdraw their bonds.
Moncrief likewise purportedly provided to release some females on the problem that they make love with an additional individual beyond the prison. The chief law officer affirmed that Moncrief “sold women he bonded out to other buyers.”
The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation determined at the very least 26 feasible sufferers and a variety of possible witnesses throughout its three-year examination, according to an apprehension record pointed out by ABC affiliate WFTV.
Moncrief’s costs come a year after the apprehension of a regional defense lawyer, John Gillespie, on comparable accusations, TV station WKMG reports.
“Victims of Gillespie alleged that they had to have sex with Bruce Moncrief … in exchange for being bonded out of jail or in exchange for others being bonded out of jail,” stated a Florida police launch pointed out by WKMG.
According to court documents Gillespie was located inexperienced to continue and continues to be in Orange County Jail.
An lawyer standing for Moncrief did not promptly react to HuffPost’s ask for a declaration, yet informed WKMG that the offender “he denies any and all of these allegations.”
If condemned, Moncrief confronts 125 years behind bars. Court documents reveal he is anticipated to show up in Orange County court onNov 8.
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