OAKLAND — An alleged East Bay pimp beat his human trafficking case right here after the alleged sufferer testified she made up all the pieces, not solely asserting that she lied to police however that she additionally fabricated texts in case she wanted to get him in hassle, court docket data present.
Lavell Boyland, 37, was charged in Could with of human trafficking and pimping, in addition to misdemeanor counts of resisting police and little one cruelty. However final August, prosecutors dismissed the case in opposition to him, following a preliminary listening to the place the alleged sufferer turned the case on its head. The dismissal eradicated the necessity for a listening to on a protection movement to have the case thrown out, citing the girl’s testimony.
However the authorized victory was short-lived. Simply 4 weeks in the past, police in Alabama arrested Boyland in a remarkably related case.
The girl, often called Jane Doe, initially claimed Boyland pressured her into prostitution and held her to a $1,000 per day quota, and police mentioned the textual content messages between them proved it. On the witness stand, she testified that all the pieces she mentioned was a lie.
“To be honest he’s the only man that came in my life and actually took care of me. So when he tries to leave, it’s like I try to use his background to make him stay, which is not okay,” Doe testified, maybe referring to Boyland’s prior convictions for pandering and failure to register as a intercourse offender. She added, “He doesn’t have me sex working. He’s never asked me to sell my body. He’s never told me to do anything of that sort.”
When requested concerning the messages, Doe mentioned she hatched the ruse when she had time alone with two totally different digital units, permitting her to manufacture a dialog about intercourse work.
“Literally those messages, that’s me texting me,” she testified.
Regardless of her testimony, Decide Delia Trevino allowed pimping fees to proceed on the listening to, however by means of out the extra severe human trafficking depend. Police additionally testified on the listening to, court docket data present.
On the time of Boyland’s arrest final Could, police alleged that he used a younger boy, Doe’s son, as a “deterrent” when the cops got here, ignoring each the kid’s cries and the boy’s mom, and holding onto the boy in order that police couldn’t initially arrest him.
After his launch from jail, Boyland moved to Alabama, the place he and Doe had beforehand lived, based on court docket data. On Nov. 22, police in Tuscaloosa County arrested him on trafficking fees. Media reviews there say he allegedly imposed a $1,000 per day quota on a girl who he’d beforehand trafficked in California, managed fundamental features of her day-to-day life, and threatened her with a gun. Authorities say they discovered on-line advertisements that includes the girl, relationship again to September 2024.
