A bail bondsman is going through prison costs in Florida for allegedly approaching incarcerated ladies and providing to bond them out if they provide him intercourse in return.
Russell Bruce Moncrief faces counts of human trafficking and racketeering – together with accusations that he used his authority inside the prison justice system to prey on notably weak ladies, stated a current information launch from the workplace of the state’s legal professional common, Ashley Moody.
Moody’s workplace stated Moncrief, 75, would goal ladies jailed on accusations involving intercourse work or medication, together with in Orange county, the place Orlando is. He would suggest posting their bonds to await the outcomes of their circumstances from out of custody in the event that they agreed to have intercourse with him afterward, Moody’s workplace alleged.
The Moncrief Bail Bonds proprietor would additionally allegedly accept “intercourse from somebody outdoors of jail” as compensation for his scheme, prosecutors stated. And he additionally purportedly would sexually proposition ladies whose bonds he posted to different patrons with whom he did enterprise as a part of what Moody’s workplace’s assertion dismissed as a “sickening scheme”.
“After bailing his victims out of jail, he continued to make use of his energy over them to promote the ladies for intercourse to others for his personal monetary acquire,” the assertion continued.
Moncrief would moreover threaten to revoke or pull the bonds of the ladies on whom he preyed – or to falsely accuse them of violations that may ship them again into custody – to coerce their compliance, Moody’s workplace charged.
Moody’s workplace stated authorities discovered of Moncrief’s plot amid an investigation right into a former protection legal professional, John Gillespie, who was arrested on comparable prison allegations in 2020. Investigators alleged that victims of Gillespie had additionally been compelled to interact in intercourse with Moncrief.
If convicted as charged, Moncrief may obtain as much as 125 years in jail, Moody’s workplace stated. Investigators who constructed the case in opposition to Moncrief stated his alleged bonds-for-sex ruse dated again not less than a decade.
Moncrief was booked into the Orange county jail on Thursday, data present. Based on Fox’s Orlando affiliate, at a preliminary courtroom listening to, an legal professional for him stated: “It’s Mr Moncrief’s place that he denies any and all allegations, and he appears ahead to proving his innocence in courtroom.”
Moncrief has reportedly been within the bail bond enterprise since 1978. Beside Orange, his Moncrief Bail Bonds has workplaces within the Florida counties of Osceola, Brevard and Pinellas, because the Fox Orlando affiliate famous.
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