Man pleads guilty in human trafficking case
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) – A man arrested as part of a kidnapping investigation pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of transporting a woman across state lines for prostitution.
Ruperto Moncillo Flores and Jacobo Feliciano-Francisco were arrested June 27 after a distraught woman walked into a police department in Hattiesburg, Miss., and said she had been abducted in Panama City Beach, Fla.
The woman had been a witness in a prior human trafficking case that led to convictions in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Flores, of Lawrenceville, Ga., was arrested as part of the kidnapping investigation, but he was indicted on a charge of transporting a different woman across state lines for prostitution.
The plea hearing took place in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg.
Flores isn’t charged with the Florida abduction.
