2 men accused of trafficking teen girls for sex at Dallas hotel

Two Dallas males face federal prices after authorities say they trafficked minors for intercourse.

LaDarius Alton Smith, 33, and Ulises Rene Garcia, 22, have been every indicted Tuesday on two counts of intercourse trafficking of a kid. Their attorneys didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

On April 12, brokers with the North Texas Trafficking Process Pressure have been notified by the Texas Division of Household and Protecting Companies a couple of runaway juvenile. The 16-year-old woman was seen on an internet site that advertises business intercourse, based on courtroom paperwork.

An secret agent contacted Smith and organized to satisfy the woman that night for intercourse at a resort in northwest Dallas, based on courtroom paperwork.

Authorities started to surveil the resort and have become conscious of one other woman. That woman, who’s 17, misplaced her resort key and authorities noticed Garcia give her a brand new one, officers wrote in a prison grievance.

An secret agent spoke to Smith on the resort and organized to satisfy each ladies in a room later that night for $400. Later that day, brokers noticed Smith arrive on the resort with a 3rd woman, additionally 17, based on courtroom paperwork.

Finally, authorities noticed the 2 17-year-olds standing with Garcia and positioned him beneath arrest. The 16-year-old was taken out of the resort room Garcia was staying in, based on courtroom paperwork.

Throughout a search of Garcia’s room, investigators discovered a highschool schedule for one of many ladies and clothes worn by one other woman in a web based commercial, courtroom paperwork say.

Throughout an interview with authorities, the third woman stated she posted the net ads and had reached that settlement with Smith in alternate for not having to interact in business intercourse, courtroom paperwork say.

The third woman stated she had been with Smith for about two months and had contacted the primary two ladies, who traveled from Wichita Falls, based on courtroom paperwork.

Throughout an interview with police, Garcia advised investigators he knew Smith had engaged in prostitution earlier than, and that when he noticed the three ladies he assumed Smith was having them carry out business intercourse. He stated he didn’t know the way previous the women have been, however that they’d “child faces,” courtroom paperwork say.

Every man faces as much as life in jail if convicted.