It was announced by the Department of Justice on Tuesday that 32-year-old Brandon Michael Gadson was sentenced on last Friday on charges of Interstate Travel to Promote Prostitution.

It was in July of 2010, that Gadson, also known as Mickey Vegas traveled to Anchorage, bringing with him three women and another man.

He had brought the women into the state, the youngest being 19, with the express purpose of trafficking them on the Internet.

He brought the women to a hotel room at Howard Johnsons and then posted explicit advertisements with the women’s pictures on the Internet on Craigslist and Backpage saying that the women were available for commercial sex acts.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel R. Cooper, Jr., Gadson appeared in at least three videos published on YouTube, all of which lyricized the degradation of women through sex trafficking, and promoted the exploitation of women through physical force.

It was not long before the Anchorage Police Department’s Vice Squad got wind of the operation, and set up a “sting” operation of their own.

Within an hour of setting up their operation, the detectives with that unit arrested the three women involved in the scheme as well as Gadson’s parter. When the women were arrested, they had insignificant amounts of cash on their person. When Gadson was arrested later, he had approximately $10,000 in his possession.

In U.S. District Court, Judge Sharon M. Gleason said that Gadson’s conduct was demeaning and dispicable to women and called his crime reprehensible. Noting the word “Pimp” tattooed on Gadson’s neck, Gleason said that it was apparent that Gadson was proud of his conduct. Gleason also noted that Gadson was a long-time sex trafficker and lived off of women.

During the investigation, the 19-year-old prostitute told investigators that Gadson had hit her over the head with a cell phone.

Gadson denied injuring the woman and also said in a sentencing memorandum that he was not proud of what he was doing, but rather that he was just providing “assistance to working women who voluntarily chose that lifestyle.”

Also in his memo, Gadson pointed out that one of the women was a former lover and that another of the women was in a current relationship with him.

Gadson was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Gleason. That sentence is to be followed by three years of probation. During that time, Gadson is not allowed to access the Internet without the express permission of his probation officer.