Man guilty of trafficking teen runaways from Ohio
PITTSBURGH – A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to sex trafficking four teenage runaways from Ohio who were found in his car during a traffic stop last year, along with 8,000 individual dose bags of heroin.
Officials said Robert Middlebrook, 41, agreed Thursday to a sentence of 12 years in prison, though a federal judge must approve it when he returns to court May 9.
The Clairton man’s co-defendant, Kiari Day, 26, of Rankin, pleaded guilty in November to helping Middlebrook by teaching the girls how to interact with customers and helping post online prostitution ads.
The girls, all 17 or 16, were from the Canton-Akron area.