CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Xaver Boston, a U.S. Army reservist accused of trafficking young women from Charlotte to other states for sex, had his case continued in federal court on Tuesday.
Boston has been in jail in uptown Charlotte since his arrest last week.
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An indictment said Boston, 28, sex trafficked the women from at least 2012 through 2016, and then for several months after he returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2017.
Boston is charged with six counts of sex trafficking, one count of inducing a person to travel in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution and two counts of using an interstate facility to promote a prostitution enterprise.
The report said Boston had several ways of maintaining control over the victims.
It said Boston “obtained and arranged for others to obtain hotel rooms within North Carolina and other states for purposes of prostitution."
The indictment said Boston maintained control of the women by withholding drugs as a form of punishment and also by using violence against them when he suspected they were withholding money or lying to him.
It also said Boston advertised the women on Backpage.com and collected the prostitution proceeds for his own profit while providing the women with drugs, including heroin to maintain control of their actions.
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