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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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‘Captain Save-A-Hoe’

PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit upheld the sex trafficking conviction and sentence of a man who identified himself as “Captain Save-A-Hoe” to FBI agents who were investigating him for picking up two runaway teen girls and forcing them to have sex with him and others for money and shelter. He voluntarily went to a police to “clear his name” by writing a false statement, and recorded messages intended as blackmail in case the kids he had trafficked didn't “keep quiet” to law enforcement.

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