Motel security guard sentenced in sex trafficking
Adrian Palmer provided protection for a pimp at a Days Inn in Northeast Phila.
A former motel security guard today was sentenced to over six years in federal prison for his role in sex trafficking minors.
Adrian Palmer, 49, of Philadelphia, worked as a guard in June 2012 at the Days Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard in the Northeast. For two weeks, Palmer provided protection and assistance to Craig Johnson, a pimp who recruited runaway teenage girls to work as prostitutes. According to prosecutors, Palmer accepted between $60 and $100 a day in exchange for directing clients to Johnson's operation and protecting him from police.
Palmer pleaded guilty in October 2013 to conspiracy, sex trafficking and attempted sex trafficking of a minor. In addition to an 80-month prison sentence, U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones II ordered Palmer to pay restitution of $1,400 and register as a sex offender upon his release.