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Chattanooga: Police document first sex trafficking case

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photo Khari Matthew “King Black” Troutman

Chattanooga police were able to document their first reported case of sex trafficking over the weekend.

A 21-year-old Baltimore woman was kept captive in a local hotel last week and prostituted to johns through an ad posted on Backpage.com, according to a Chattanooga police arrest report.

The woman, who was held against her will, was reportedly prostituted out and held captive by a 31-year-old Atlanta man for several days.

Khari Matthew “King Black” Troutman faces charges of domestic assault, kidnapping and promoting prostitution.

The woman told police she met Troutman at a Comfort Inn in Silver Springs, Md. She said she agreed to work for him as a prostitute. She was pimped out through online ads in Knoxville, Chattanooga and in North Carolina, according to the report.