Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that a “ruthless predator” from Brooklyn was sentenced to 13 years in prison after she lured victims to three Queens locations where they were beaten.
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A Brooklyn woman was sentenced on Oct. 19 in Queens Supreme Court to 13 years in prison on sex trafficking, kidnapping, assault and robbery charges for three 2022 incidents in which she lured victims to Queens locations for sex, then detained, assaulted and robbed them with the help of a Long Island man, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office.
Destiny Lebron, 20, of North Portland Avenue in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty on Oct. 6 to sex trafficking; promoting prostitution in the second degree; assault in the third degree; two counts of kidnapping in the second degree; two counts of robbery in the first degree; two counts of robbery in the second degree; two counts of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree; unlawful imprisonment in the second degree; and three counts of grand larceny in the fourth degree.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the sentencing of Lebron on Oct. 20, adding that the case against co-defendant Gil Iphael, 23, of Copiague Street in Valley Stream, is pending.
According to the charges, Lebron befriended a female victim via Instagram in February 2022. The two exchanged messages of sexual content and photos and engaged in prostitution-related conversations. In July 2022, when Lebron asked her to engage in prostitution, the victim declined. Lebron continued to call and message the victim over two days and the two agreed to meet. On July 30, 2022, Lebron and Iphael went to pick the victim up and the three traveled to the Quality Inn hotel located at 153-95 Rockaway Blvd. in Springfield Gardens, where the woman was told that she would have to either help Lebron and Iphael rob victims lured to the hotel by Lebron posing as a prostitute, or she would have to engage in prostitution…
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