MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Miami Beach police say a Tuesday traffic stop outside of a Normandy Isle motel led to the arrest of a human trafficker known to a victim by the street name “First Class.”
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According to police, the woman they encountered following the traffic stop didn’t know that “First Class”’s real name was Alexandar Jerico Brown. The 41-year-old was on probation at the time of his arrest for trafficking a minor, an arrest report states.
They said Brown, of North Bay Village, lured his latest victim to South Florida with the promise of working as a stripper. Instead, they said he forced her to sell her body.
A Miami Beach Police Department arrest report states that the agency’s human trafficking detectives were surveilling the International Inn, described as a “known prostitution and narcotics” hotspot at 2301 Normandy Drive, Tuesday evening when they saw a man in a black Mercedes drop a woman off at the hotel and leave.
Police said they pulled over Brown and arrested him for having no valid driver’s license and possessing marijuana.
Authorities said they went to the hotel room the woman was in and spoke to her. They said she denied knowing anything about the man in the car, but police said they saw texts from her on Brown’s phone asking about “police officers” and she admitted she knew him.
The report states that the victim told investigators that she met Brown through his “Imdabiggest16″ Instagram page and he flew her to Miami under the pretense of getting her a job working at a strip club.
According to the report, after arriving in Miami, the woman thought she was going to be staying in Brown’s apartment but instead ended up five minutes away at the International Inn, where she was told she would have to prostitute herself in order to “pay him his fee of $10,000.”
Police said Brown told her to make online prostitution advertisements, what sites to use and “how to bump those ads up.”
“When asked if she was doing this of her own free will, she stated she was not, but (Brown) had threatened her with physical violence, the last time being today, and she was afraid he would ‘put his hands on her’ if she did not comply,” the report states.
Police said when the woman found out Brown was under arrest, “she began crying and said ‘he has all my money, now I’m stuck here.’”
Brown is now facing felony human trafficking and prostitution charges.
As of Wednesday, he was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.