The website was seized by federal agents in 2018 as part of a wide-ranging investigation into prostitution and child sex trafficking.
Prosecutors say Guizar-Cuellar, of San Jose, oversaw a sex trafficking ring that sold sex with adult women and at least three underage girls on Backpage from September 2014 to January 2016. Prosecutors say Guizar-Cuellar transported the girls to hotels and motels across the Bay Area to meet the men who responded to his ads, providing the victims with condoms and collecting the money they were paid.
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