A 36-year-old man from Nevada pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 17 years in prison for pimping an underage girl in Anaheim, according to court records obtained Thursday.
Marcus Anthony Boyd pleaded guilty Wednesday to a count of human trafficking of a minor, a count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and two counts of pandering with a minor younger than 16. He also admitted to sentencing enhancements for committing a crime while out on bail in a separate case.
He was given credit for 91 days behind bars.
An investigator with the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force received an email in July about a potential runaway girl from Las Vegas, police said in court documents.
An undercover investigator set up a meeting with the victim through an ad for prostitution, police said.
The girl was seen leaving a residence in Stanton and got into a car driven by Boyd, who was taking her to a motel in Anaheim, police said.
Investigators detained the girl and when officers attempted to pull Boyd over, he led them on a chase to a dead-end street, where he jumped out and tried to run away, according to authorities.
The victim told police Boyd was pimping her and that she had “lost count how many times he has physically assaulted her,” according to police.