Two nabbed for human trafficking

A San Francisco couple was arrested Saturday at a South San Francisco hotel after four women, one underage, told police the pair recruited them to solicit and engage in prostitution and gave them drugs in order to keep them working all night, according to police. South San Francisco police responded to the hotel on Airport Boulevard at about 11 a.m. after a clerk alerted authorities about possible prostitution activity. It was initially reported that on two consecutive days the same clerk observed four young women, one 17, being dropped off at the hotel by a man who would leave the area once the women rented two different rooms, according to police. Police contacted the women who said they were repeatedly given illegal narcotics to keep them up and working and were sometimes deprived of food, according to police. When the man returned with another woman to pick up the four women they were immediately arrested, according to police. Arrested were Sate Jones and Maria Jimenez, both 25. They face charges of human trafficking, pimping and pandering, according to police. They were both booked into San Mateo County jail on an $80,000 bail. Late last year, management at several hotels in South San Francisco were provided training by police to help identify potential indicators of human trafficking and prostitution, according to police. silverfarb@smdailyjournal.com (650) 344-5200 ext. 106