A San Francisco man who pleaded no contest in January to two counts of human trafficking for pimping two teens he’d brought to a South San Francisco motel from Sacramento in 2013 was sentenced to 13 years in state prison Wednesday, San Mateo County prosecutors said.
Sate Stallone Jones, 28, was arrested on Feb. 16, 2013, after a clerk at the La Quinta Inn at 20 Airport Blvd. reported that a suspect had dropped off two girls there that day and two others a day prior, prosecutors said.
Police responded and found two females there, one 17 years old and the other 18 years old, and learned that they were destitute and had been taken from Sacramento several days earlier by Jones and 26-year-old Andrew Jordan.
They had used them as prostitutes at motels in San Francisco and South San Francisco for several days while Jones and Jordan took all their money and gave them drugs to keep them working all night long, prosecutors said.
Police had the victims call Jones, who arrived in his Mercedes with his girlfriend, 28-year-old Maria Jimenez. Both were arrested. Jordan remained free for months but was eventually captured. Both he and Jimenez eventually took plea deals with prosecutors. Jimenez was sentenced to a year in jail while Jordan was sentenced to an eight-year prison term.
The human trafficking conviction of Jones is the first in the county’s history.
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