A Florida bondsman was jailed for purportedly asking incarcerated females for intercourse for bailing them out, Attorney General Ashley Moody announced Tuesday.
Russell Bruce Moncrief, 75, the proprietor of Moncrief Bail Bonds, which has areas in quite a few Florida areas, is charged of human trafficking and racketeering, to call just a few prices, based on the information.
According to Moody, Moncrief focused females in space jail and others that had really been jailed on hooking and/or treatment prices. After bailing the females out, Moncrief saved his energy over them by intimidating to withdraw their bonds.
Moncrief likewise purportedly offered to launch some females on the issue that they make love with a further particular person past the jail. The chief regulation officer affirmed that Moncrief “sold women he bonded out to other buyers.”
The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation decided on the very least 26 possible victims and a wide range of doable witnesses all through its three-year examination, based on a terror document identified by ABC affiliate WFTV.
Moncrief’s prices come a yr after the apprehension of a regional protection 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,” acknowledged a Florida police launch identified by WKMG.
According to courtroom paperwork Gillespie was positioned inexperienced to proceed and continues to be in Orange County Jail.
An lawyer standing for Moncrief didn’t promptly react to HuffPost’s ask for a declaration, but knowledgeable WKMG that the offender “he denies any and all of these allegations.”
If condemned, Moncrief confronts 125 years behind bars. Court paperwork reveal he’s anticipated to indicate up in Orange County courtroom onNov 8.
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