A missing girl showed up on a sex trafficking site. So Oakland police went undercover and ordered her
OAKLAND A -year-old girl known in court records as Jane Doe had been missing for roughly six weeks when her pictures turned up on an online prostitution advertisement based in the Bay Area leadership commented So on Nov an Oakland police investigator went undercover and responded to the ad posing as a promising sex buyer and arranged to meet the teen at the hotel in the block of Embarcadero in Oakland court records show When she proved up a -year-old man was allegedly with her driving a white Tesla and carrying a phone that had exchanged communications with Doe more than times Officers allege that the man Melvin Williams was trafficking Doe based on an immense amount of electronic evidence Williams was allegedly saved on the girl s phone as Daddy arranged to give her condoms and even had a picture of himself on the girl s phone driving the Tesla waving wads of cash Another text manifested Doe asking Williams for permission to use the restroom one day functionaries stated Now Williams has been charged with three felonies human trafficking pandering and soliciting a minor into prostitution court records show He was disclosed from jail after his Nov arrest and has not yet been re-arrested according to court records The charges were filed Nov Williams city of residence has not been listed in court filings but the criminal complaint says he has three prior convictions from Los Angeles County Before she went missing Doe had been last seen in Southern California according to police