SF man sentenced for coercing woman into sex trafficking

(KRON) — On Wednesday, a judge sentenced Lamar Nolan Ryan, 42, to nine months in prison for possessing a loaded firearm and attempting to coerce a woman to be his commercial sex worker, United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey said.

On July 1, Ryan possessed a loaded, semi-automatic Glock handgun with an “obliterated” serial number he hid underneath his clothes, prosecutors said. That same day, officials detained Ryan in a motel parking lot for also coercing a woman into being his commercial sex worker.

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According to the US Attorney’s Office, Ryan met the woman at a San Francisco motel, where he paid her $500 for sex.

After having sex with the woman, however, Ryan took the money back and tried to convince her to perform commercial sex work under his management in exchange for a 30% cut of the profits, prosecutors said. The woman was initially reluctant but soon after agreed.

Ryan then took the woman to South San Francisco and rented a motel room. While in the motel room, Ryan showed the woman his gun and told her she would be “protected” while working for him, prosecutors said.

Not long after, South San Francisco police officers found Ryan and the woman — whose family had tracked her location using her cellphone– in a parked car outside a laundromat, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Ryan was ordered to serve three years of supervised release after his prison term is completed. The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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