Natomas Man Admits to Interstate Transportation of a Minor for Prostitution

SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Jamal Kareem Warren, 24, of Natomas, entered a plea of guilty today to a federal charge of interstate transportation of a minor for prostitution.

According to court documents, in November 2009, Warren met a 16-year-old girl who wanted to run away from home. The girl indicated that she thought Warren was a pimp and wanted to work for him. Warren took sexually explicit photographs of the girl and posted them on the Internet, advertising her for prostitution. On December 6, 2009, Warren and others took the girl to Reno, Nev., so she could prostitute; they stayed there until December 8, 2009 when they returned to Sacramento. On December 15, 2009, law enforcement officers discovered Internet prostitution advertisements for the girl and were able to rescue her from a motel in Natomas.

This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Sacramento Police Department, working together as part of the FBI’s Innocence Lost Task Force. Assistant United States Attorney Carolyn K. Delaney is prosecuting the case.

Warren is scheduled to be sentenced by United States District Judge William B. Shubb on October 31, 2011. The maximum statutory penalty for interstate transportation of a minor for prostitution is life in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a lifetime term of supervised release. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.