WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:
A federal jury in the Northern District of Indiana convicted Anthony Mayers, 36, of Gary, Indiana, of four counts of trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and other related charges.Mayers lured vulnerable women into his scheme with promises that they would make enormous sums of money or be provided safe housing or other needs, and then he turned violent, coercing them to engage in commercial sex and taking the money they earned. Victims testified that he beat and threatened them by brandishing a firearm and shooting at them inside the house.
"Anthony Mayers is an extremely violent sex trafficker who preyed upon vulnerable women...