Sex Trafficking Ring Busted In N.J.

TRENTON, N.J. - Investigators break up what they call a major sex trafficking ring that was up and running in New Jersey.

Police say thanks to ‘Operation Red Light,’ dozens of women are free from a life of sex slavery.

The New Jersey Attorney General Friday detailed the case which she calls "horriffic."

"This is a case about human trafficking which, put simply, is modern-day slavery," said NJ Attorney General Anne Milgram. "It is a heartbreaking case in which the freedom and the dignity of many women, women between the ages of 17 and 43, was taken away."

47-year-old Allen E. Brown, Jr., a.k.a 'Prince,' is accused of human trafficking, racketeering, laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars among other charges.

According to authorities, the women were lured to Jersey City by Brown and forced into a life of drug addiction and prostitution.

Officials say Brown kept the women enslaved through various methods.

“Once they were forced into his stable of prostitutes, they were subjected to beatings, to isolation from others, into corrosion. They were locked inside apartments,” said Milgram. "A daily quota which varied woman by woman but ranged about between $500 and $1000 a day. We've charged that they were beaten or they were denied entry into the house or they were refused the drugs they had become addicted to."

Authorities say Brown ran the ring for nearly two decades.

Six other people also face charges.

He faces a mandatory 20 year prison sentence if convicted.