A 42-year-old Jefferson man has been convicted on multiple federal sex trafficking and related charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Abe McGlothin, Jr. announced Monday.
Corey Lamar Johnson was found guilty on May 19, 2025, by a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker. Johnson was convicted on two counts of sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, obstruction of a sex trafficking investigation, three counts of interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, and conspiracy to violate the Travel Act.
Co-defendants Jessica Smith and Rachel Walker had previously pleaded guilty to related offenses.
According to trial evidence, Johnson trafficked young women across the country, using force, threats, fraud, and coercion to compel them into commercial sex for his personal profit. He recruited victims through social media, advertising a luxurious lifestyle and promising the same to the women he lured. Once under his control, Johnson introduced them to commercial sex work and used violence and threats—including brandishing firearms and referencing a prior murder charge—to prevent them from leaving.
On June 15, 2023, Johnson and his co-conspirators were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges including sex trafficking, transportation, obstruction, and conspiracy to violate the Travel Act.
At sentencing, Johnson faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years and up to life in federal prison, in addition to mandatory restitution. A sentencing date will be set following a presentence investigation by the U.S. Probation Office.
The case was investigated by the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division, with assistance from the Canton, Chandler, Arlington, and Bossier City Police Departments.
Prosecution was led by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert A. Wells and James Mack Noble IV, and Trial Attorney Slava Kuperstein of the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, with support from Trial Attorney Julie Pfluger and Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel C. Kummerfeld.
