(Omaha, NE) -- An Omaha man is sentenced to ten years in federal prison for trafficking a minor.
This week, Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that 35 year old Jonte Fuller was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Fuller pled guilty in April 2022 to Transporting a Minor to Engage in Prostitution.
Federal prosecutors say around September 2020, a 16-year-old who had run from home met Fuller and his co-defendant Phillip Gonzales in Omaha. Investigators say Gonzales took photos of the minor and placed them in advertisements he posted on a website used to advertise commercial sex, using an account under Fuller’s name and email address. Gonzales initially did not have a car, so Fuller drove the minor to “out calls” where they engaged in commercial sex with customers. The minor provided a portion of the money they received from such "out calls" to Fuller.
Prosecutors say in early October 2020, Fuller drove Gonzales, the minor and an adult from Iowa to a home in Bellevue, Nebraska for an out call. At the residence, both the minor and the adult engaged in commercial sex with a customer. Gonzales pled guilty in in February 2022 to Producing Visual Depiction of Minor Engaging in Sexually Explicit Conduct and was sentenced on May 25, 2022 to 180 months imprisonment.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Omaha Police Department.