Sex-Traffic Suspect Drives To Meet Teen, Arrested In Napa

NAPA COUNTY, CA – An undercover human-trafficking sting led to the arrest this week of a Contra Costa County man when he drove to Napa to meet a teen he allegedly was luring into the sex trade, according to authorities.

Investigators, posing online as a 17-year-old girl, reportedly began communicating via social media with Marvin Woods, 28 of Richmond, the Napa Special Investigations Bureau said today.

When Woods showed up this week at an address on the 1800 block of Imola Avenue in Napa purportedly to pick up the girl to work for him, he was arrested by NSIB detectives, officials said.

"In (a) continuing effort to combat the destructive effects of human trafficking in Napa County, the NSIB conducted another undercover human-trafficking operation resulting in the arrest of a suspect attempting to pimp and sexually exploit an underage Napa County teenage girl," the agency said.

Detectives said the suspect was actively involved in pimping and possibly trafficking other victims of commercial sex trafficking, and NSIB's investigation is continuing.

Woods was booked into the Napa County Department of Corrections on a $500,000 bail for suspicion of
attempted human trafficking of and pimping and pandering a minor -- all felonies.

Tips on drug- and/or human-trafficking in Napa County can be made to the NSIB at (707) 253-4458. Callers can remain anonymous.

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