Will Madam
Organize
Hookers in
Prison?
Judge
sends Madam
of Frederick
to 15 months
in prison
for failing
to report
her income from running whorehouses
Baltimore,
Maryland
(March
9, 2009)-
U.S.
District
Judge Andre
M. Davis
sentenced
Adriana
Delcid, age
42, of
Frederick,
Maryland, on
Friday to 15
months in
prison,
followed by
three years
of
supervised
release, for
money
laundering
related to
her
prostitution
business,
announced
United
States
Attorney for
the District
of Maryland
Rod J.
Rosenstein.
According to
her plea,
from January
1, 2006
through May
2008, Delcid
was
associated
with three
houses of
prostitution
in Maryland
and
Virginia,
making over
$140,000 per
year in
unreported
income. On
Monday of
each week,
Delcid or an
associate
would pick
up the
prostitutes
at
predetermined
locations,
including
the
Greyhound
bus station
in
Frederick,
and
transport
them to the
brothels.
Delcid
rotated two
to three
prostitutes
at one week
intervals
between her
three
brothels.
Prosecutors
say that
Delcid knew
that the
females had
traveled
into
Maryland
from other
states for
the purposes
of
prostituting
in her
brothels and
that some of
the females
were
illegally
within the
United
States.
Delcid did
not
generally
ask for the
age or alien
status of
the
prostitutes
who worked
in these
brothels.
Delcid set
the hours
and prices
at the
brothels and
assisted in
collecting
the money,
which she
used to help
pay rent and
utilities at
the
brothels,
pay her
mortgage,
make
payments on
the vehicle
used to
transport
the
prostitutes,
pay sex
workers and
brothel
managers,
purchase
supplies for
her
prostitution
businesses,
and open two
businesses
in Florida.
This
case was
investigated
by the
Maryland
Human
Trafficking
Task Force,
which was
created in
2007 to
discover and
rescue
victims of
human
trafficking
while
identifying
and
prosecuting
offenders. For
more
information
about the
Maryland
Human
Trafficking
Task Force,
please visit
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/md/Human-Trafficking/index.html.
United
States
Attorney Rod
J.
Rosenstein
praised U.S.
Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement,
the Maryland
State
Police,
Frederick
County
Sheriff
Charles
Jenkins and
his office
and the
Internal
Revenue
Service -
Criminal
Investigation
for their
investigative
work. Mr.
Rosenstein
thanked
Assistant
U.S.
Attorney
Solette
Magnelli,
who is
prosecuting
the case.
