Dallas man forced Waco woman into prostitution in North Texas, affidavit alleges

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Dallas man who promised a Waco woman he would "help her make money" forced the woman into prostitution against her will, an arrest warrant affidavit alleges.

Jerremie "Ray" Raeshard King, 37, who is no longer listed as an active inmate in the McLennan County Jail, is charged with trafficking of persons, according to the document.

Waco Police Department detectives received a missing person report on Aug. 15. and learned the missing woman began communicating with King on Facebook shortly after they were introduced.

King, the arrest warrant states, offered to pick up the woman in Waco and take her to Dallas to make money. The victim, according to affidavit, made it clear she did not want to engage in sex work and King assured her he "would not pimp her out."

Police wrote in the affidavit that King drove down from Dallas to 1700 Dallas Circle in Waco, where he picked up the woman with the "purpose of transporting her to Dallas County to work in a high-crime area for prostitution."

After she was picked up, the victim had her phone taken away and was given a new phone. The woman reportedly spoke with a relative and told that person that she was taken to a home in the 1700 block of Russell Drive in Dallas, police said.

The woman activated the new phone's GPS tracking application so that her family could track her. Relatives decided to file a missing person report with Waco police when the woman's new phone was turned off.

Police said the victim was found by a Good Samaritan who reported the sex trafficking to police in Dallas and bought the woman a bus ticket back to Waco.

When she spoke with Waco detectives, the woman alleged King "actively took her to areas of Dallas where she was forced to be a sex worker and walk the streets offering sexual favors for money."

Detectives obtained Facebook and phone records "which displayed conversations between the victim and the suspect" that confirmed the victim's story, police wrote in the affidavit.

Furthermore, phone records verified the victim was taken to the residence in the 1700 block of Russell Drive in Dallas.