The trooper dispatch revealed that after an investigation of two California men, they have been indicted on a multitude of sex crime charges and kidnapping by an Anchorage grand Jury in what is reported to be a state-wide prostitution operation.

37-year-old Kendale Stanifer of Concord, California and 34-year-old Jamal Williams of Antioch, California were indicted for Kidnapping, Sexual Assault I, Sex Trafficking I x6, Sex Trafficking II x6 and Sex Trafficking III x6 on February 19th, 2016. The indictment was handed down for “allegedly forcing  two young ladies into prostitution by intimidation, abuse, and with the use of narcotics,” the trooper dispatch reported.

Troopers say that “the pair first popped up on Alaska State Troopers’ radar when a Cantwell-based trooper contacted them and two female companions during a traffic stop for speeding on the Parks Highway Feb. 7.” During the stop, the trooper suspected the two men to be involved with either sex trafficking or drug trafficking and alerted the State-wide Drug Enforcement Unit and the Special Crimes Investigation Crimes Unit in Anchorage.

Four days later, on February 11th, Fairbanks Police contacted the two men after the rental company for the vehicle they were driving was reported stolen after it had not been returned to the company as expected. When stopped, police noticed the odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle, as many as 10 cell phones and a large amount of cash in the vehicle. Based on that observation , Fairbanks Police contacted SDEU.[xyz-ihs snippet=”adsense-body-ad”]

When SDEU responded and investigated, they spoke with the two women in the vehicle, who reported to investigators that “they were being pimped out by both men in a statewide prostitution enterprise.”

During the investigation of the two men, Investigators with SCIU and the Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team (WAANT) served a search warrant for a storage unit Standifer rented in Anchorage on Feb. 12 where an estimated $280,000 worth of drugs were discovered,” troopers revealed in the trooper dispatch.

Additional charges for the drugs are forth-coming, troopers say.

The FBI, DEA, IRS, U.S. Postal Investigators and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Anchorage are assisting with the on-going investigation.

Investigators, during the course of their investigation uncovered many items that they associated with sex trafficking, such as $10,000 in cash, ledgers with client names and numbers, multiple cell phones and what they called numerous documents on money laundering when they served search warrants.

The two men face between 30 and 99 years in prison if convicted. They have been jailed without bail since their arrest on February 11th.[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adversal-468×60″]

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