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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Muskegon man who was found guilty of sex trafficking teens in Muskegon and Kent counties could spend the rest of his life in a federal prison.
Richardo Urbina, 58, was sentenced to 40 years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He’ll also have to pay $40,000 in fines.
He was convicted in May of three counts of sex trafficking minors, three counts attempting to sex traffic minors, conspiring to sex traffic minors, sex trafficking an adult by force and three cocaine-related charges.
Authorities say Urbina targeted teenage runaways who needed money and a place to stay, coercing them into having sex for money and taking half the cash. He would give them alcohol and cocaine to get them to go along with it. One woman told jurors she only managed to escape him with help from a john.
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