A Camden County judge sentenced Brian Moore to 20 years in prison for human trafficking and promoting prostitution.
CAMDEN -- A Trenton man convicted of pimping out four women was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in state prison, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.
A Camden County jury found Brian Moore, 47, guilty in October of five counts of first-degree human trafficking and six counts of third-degree promoting prostitution. The four women he forced into prostitution testified against him during the trial.
Camden County Superior Court Judge Gwendolyn Blue sentenced Moore Wednesday to 20 years without parole and a $25,000 fine. Authorities arrested Moore in March 2014 as the result of an undercover operation by the Cherry Hill Police Department and investigation by the Camden County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit.
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Moore became the target of the operation when he was seen dropping women off at a local hotel and then picking them up at a later time, police have said. An investigation showed that Moore forced the women into prostitution through threats of violence and daily trips to Camden to purchase narcotics, according to the prosecutor's office.
Moore recruited the women in Camden and then posted photos of them in lingerie on Backpage.com. Moore drove the women around South Jersey, where they engaged in sexual acts several times a day in exchange for money, according to testimony.
The women supplied Moore with thousands of dollars a week, which he held for himself in several bank accounts and used it to buy electronic equipment and two vehicles, the investigation revealed.
Police encountered the first of Moore's women when she solicited an undercover detective and was arrested. The woman identified two more victims in the human trafficking and a fourth came forward after the case was publicized.
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