OAKLAND — An Alameda man was sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in federal jail for a gun that police discovered whereas investigating him for suspected human trafficking.
Adesola Kehinde, 38, was being investigated final 12 months on suspicion of trafficking a teen lady, whereas on probation for a previous human trafficking of a minor conviction. However as a substitute of dealing with intercourse trafficking prices, Kehinde was charged as a substitute in federal courtroom with being a felon in possession of a firearm, courtroom information present.
He in the end pleaded responsible and was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Decide Araceli Martínez-Olguín.
In a sentencing memo, Kehinde’s lawyer stated that he was shot within the pelvis, at a bowling alley, in 2006 and that his life was by no means the identical. On the time, he was a group faculty scholar with a ardour for soccer. After the capturing, he misplaced the power to play and has suffered from Publish Traumatic Stress Dysfunction since then, the memo says.
In a letter to the courtroom, Kehinde wrote that he has mirrored on his life whereas in jail, taken benefit of self-help packages behind bars, and desires an opportunity to show that he can do the precise factor.
“I want to experience the world and see what life really has to offer. I want to experience life with my son and teach him new things and show him how big not just the United States is but the world as well,” he wrote, later including, “I definitely plan on doing nothing but positive things and keeping positive people around me and in my circle.”
A prosecution sentencing memo paints a considerably much less flattering image. It says police had been investigating Kehinde in a human trafficking investigation involving a 17-year-old who admitted to being trafficked. The lady was detained through the probe, and gave permission for police to go looking her cellphone, the place they discovered an image of Kehinde and the lady “kissing on a couch.”
“On (Kehinde’s) phone, officers located saved images consistent with (Kehinde’s) ongoing role in sex work, including screenshots from various websites for advertising sex work and a screenshot of contacts saved as ‘LuxeDolls,’” Assistant U.S. Lawyer Jonah Ross wrote in a sentencing memo.
Kehinde additionally faces pending human trafficking prices in Solano County. Authorities say he advised an undercover police officer posing as a intercourse employee she’d need to pay $5,000 to have him as her pimp, and that he confirmed as much as a Vacaville resort to satisfy together with her, then sped away as police closed in.
Kehinde was convicted of human trafficking in San Francisco in 2015, and once more in Alameda County in 2022, the latter of which required him to register as a intercourse offender.
The Alameda County conviction stemmed from an incident in 2021 when a lady he was trafficking secretly texted a social employee that she was being held in opposition to her will. Kehinde’s lawyer argued that the lady lied or exaggerated a lot of her claims.
