OAKLAND – A Fremont man known as “Breaking News” was detained by police and FBI agents, who say they have witnessed him to have recruited sex workers, one who turned out to be 17 years old, according to the judicial archives.
But now, Kevin Barnes Jr., 28, faces two criminal cases: an accusation of alleged crime that he “contributed to the delinquency of a minor” and an accusation of violation of his parole for a condemnation in 2024 to a pimp of the County of Stanislau. Barnes was released from prison while the two cases are pending, according to the files.
The accusations arise from a surveillance operation of March 18 involving Oakland police and the FBI, who would have observed Barnes and another man speaking to alleged sex workers – young women walking 14th avenue and an international boulevard in slightly dressed clothes. The men had their hands behind their back while they were talking, which said that the investigators said that court documents were “coherent behavior” with the recruitment attempt.
Later, the police contacted a 17 -year -old girl who was part of the group to which Barnes would have spoken, and she told a man known as “Bristering announcements”, the authorities announced. The girl would have denied having a pimp, telling the police that she was protecting herself by carrying weapons like a paralyzing pistol or a knife, and asks other sex workers. After the interview, the police called his mother.
When they detained Barnes, he said that he had hoped “smoking grass” and having sex with the woman, and had offered him a tour to a levary bus station because she had problems with another man. But Barnes said he believed that the girl was 18 and did not tell her if he had known that she was younger, the authorities said.
In 2022, Barnes was arrested, suspected of having thrown six women to Modesto, according to the media. In 2024, he was sentenced to three years in state prison, with credit for the time purged. Last December, he was arrested for firearms in Los Angeles, but the case was rejected due to the lack of evidence, according to the judicial archives.
Barnes then went to Fremont, ostensibly to work in an Oakley Pool cover company, according to court documents in its conditional liberation affair.
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