NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A New Orleans man is accused of prostituting his girlfriend in a number of states and making her drug and rob men, including one who died.
Arraignment is scheduled Tuesday for Randy Jonal Schenck, who is accused in a federal indictment of posting sex ads with the woman’s photo in places that include California, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Georgia. Some of those ads “were explicitly commercial,” according to the indictment. Schenck’s arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday.
The two met in early 2013, and Schenck made the woman prostitute herself from at least October 2013 until September 2017, when they were arrested in Sandy Springs, Georgia, according to the indictment.
Schenck, also known as “RuRu” and “Shaq,” was indicted earlier this month on charges of sex trafficking by coercion; transporting someone for prostitution; using an interstate facility for illegal activity, which involved posting ads for paid sex on websites or an app; wire fraud for using the debit card of the man who died; and aggravated theft of the man’s identity. Penalties range from 15 years to life if he is convicted on all charges.
His court-appointed attorney, Arthur Lemann III, did not respond to an email and call Thursday requesting comment.