HOUSTON – A man accused of sex trafficking was located in the Dominican Republic after officials said he fled the country.
Officials said that Isaac Lynn Williams, 28, used the website Backpage.com for sex trafficking a teenage girl in Texas.
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Officials said an investigation into the website in August 2014 resulted in the rescue of a 17-year-old victim who was being trafficked by Williams and Deborah Cooper, a second suspect in the case.
Cooper pleaded guilty to promotion of prostitution of a minor and agreed to testify against Williams as a condition of a plea deal.
Officials said Williams waived extradition and is waiting to be transferred to Bexar County.
“This case shows that we’ll go to whatever lengths and distance required to catch human traffickers and put them behind bars,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said. “The human trafficking unit of my office is dedicated to relentlessly pursuing every perpetrator who seeks to prey on innocent and vulnerable victims of this heinous crime. We will work relentlessly to break the ability of those like Backpage to facilitate modern-day slavery.”