By J.J. Stambaugh
Knoxville News Sentinel
A 36-year-old Knoxville man arrested early this week has admitted to the FBI that he employed up to 400 female escorts who performed sex acts for cash in Knox and surrounding counties, court records show.
Selvin Salvador Perdomo, a Honduran national who is the United States legally on a visa, ran the sexual delivery service out of a house he rented at 5101 Papermill Drive and almost exclusively employed illegal female immigrants of Hispanic descent, according to the FBI.
Perdomo took appointments through his cell phone and then drove the women to clients’ homes in his red Ford Escort, records allege. In return for his services, the FBI alleges, Perdomo took half of the women’s earnings.
His arrest came after at least a year of surveillance by an FBI task force that worked with the Knoxville Police Department, Knox County Sheriff’s Office, Clinton Police Department and Blount County Sheriff’s Office.
