Sacramento Adult Entertainment: Sacramento man pleads guilty in sex-traffic case
A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to operate a sex-trafficking ring of teenage girls in Sacramento and the Bay Area.
Mahendar “Mike” Singh, 40, entered the plea Wednesday before a federal judge in Oakland, who is scheduled to sentence him in March. The crime is punishable by up to life in prison.
Singh and his wife, Helen Jean Singh, 22, were arrested in August by police in South San Francisco. According to an FBI affidavit, police who were looking for a runaway teenager found Mahendar Singh at a motel with two 16-year-old girls and a 19-year-old, who he claimed were his stepdaughters.
They told investigators that Singh lured them into prostitution by offering them a home, drugs and money, but later resorted to force to keep them in line, the FBI said.