SMITH COUNTY — Two Shreveport men who operated a prostitution enterprise in a Tyler hotel were sentenced to federal prison.
Cederrick Monshod Shaquil Clarkson, 25, of Shreveport, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in January to one count of facility of interstate commerce in aid of a racketeering enterprise and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, according to the judgement document filed in the court's electronic records.
Clarkson was sentenced to 11 years and three months or 135 months in federal prison in the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division on May 25.
The Court also recommended Clarkson participate in the residential drug treatment program. Additionally, the court recommended Clarkson be housed at a federal prison in Louisiana.
Upon release, Clarkson will be required to serve three years of supervised release.
The 24 page complaint filed in The Norther District of Texas said the Fort Worth Police Department's VICE unit started the investigation into the sex trafficking after receiving a call from the Nation Center for Missing and Exploited children regarding a victim of child sex trafficking. This call led investigators to an add on a web site containing photographs of a woman who who was advertising commercial sex acts and scheduling dates for those acts.
Fort Worth investigators located the woman in the add at a hotel room. They also located tow other women who were hiding in the closet of that room.
The woman told investigators she engaged in commercial sex acts from January to March of 2017 at at the discretion of Kentrell Davis, 25 and Clarkson, according to the complaint. The woman also said Davis and Clarkson would post ads, determine the prices for sex acts, provide condoms and pay for hotel rooms in various location throughout Texas, to include Tyler, according to the complaint.
Davis was arrested at a Tyler hotel in April 20, 2017 after a 911 call was made by an underage woman claiming she had been taken to Tyler, drugged and forced into prostitution by Davis and Clarkson.
He was charged with the outstanding warrants out of Fort Worth, Tarrant County and Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Clarkson fled the hotel and was on the run until he was located in Louisiana.
After an extensive investigation by local, state and federal authorities, Clarkson was located and arrested Aug. 30, 2017 by the U.S. Marshal's Service at his home in Shreveport. He was held in the Smith County jail, but transferred to another facility in Oct. 2017.
The Smith County's inmate booking sheet shows Clarkson was booked into the Smith County jail Monday on a federal detainer.
Davis was sentenced to 151 months or 12 years and seven months in federal prison.
Davis pleaded guilty in January to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and was sentenced May 25, according to the judgement document filed in the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division.
The court recommend Kentrell Davis serve his sentence in a federal facility in Louisiana. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release when he finishes his sentence.
Davis filed a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is appealing his sentence, according to the document filed in the court's electronic records.
