A Dallas man was arrested Tuesday after Waco police say he coerced a Waco woman into sex work in Dallas, according to an arrest affidavit.
Jerremie “Jay” Reashard King, 37, was booked in McLennan County Jail on a second-degree felony charge of trafficking of a person.
Detectives began investigating after the 22-year-old woman’s family filed a missing person report Aug. 15, according to an arrest affidavit.
King had traveled from Dallas to the 1700 block of Dallas Circle in Waco to pick up the woman and take her to Dallas County, the affidavit says.
Social media exchanges between King and the woman show she did not want to work in the sex trade, and King assured her that was not his intent, according to the affidavit.
After picking her up, King took her phone and gave her a different one to use, according to the affidavit.
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She was able to communicate her location to her family using GPS tracking, but the family grew concerned and filed a missing person report after the phone’s GPS was turned off, according to the affidavit.
A bystander in Dallas helped her contact police, who provided her with a bus ticket back to Waco, the affidavit says.
Once back in Waco, the woman told detectives King had taken her to various areas in Dallas where she was forced into sex work, according to the affidavit. Social media and phone records corroborated the woman’s account of where she was taken, detectives wrote in the affidavit.
King was released from jail by Thursday on $10,000 bail.
