Man Who Pimped at Buckhead Hotel Gets Nine Years in Prison

ATLANTA, GA — A confessed pimp will serve nine years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to trafficking a 17-year-old girl from a luxury hotel in Buckhead, according to the Georgia Attorney General’s Office.

A judge sentenced Andre Jones to 19 years in prison, with nine years required to serve, for human trafficking, pimping a minor and pandering a minor, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement. The charges stem from a November 2014 incident, in which Jones drove the 17-year-old to the unidentified hotel in Buckhead for prostitution purposes.

After two days, she was rescued by an FBI child trafficking task force. Jones had enticed the 17-year-old into prostitution as a way to make money for college, but he kept the money she received, the Attorney General's Office said.

Jones was later arrested in an undercover sting operation, prosecutors said. A police officer posing as a 16-year-old responded to an ad that Jones placed on Backpage.com for “military minded hoes” to work for him. Jones then tried to recruit the officer.

Before trafficking the 17-year-old, Jones was arrested for pimping an adult in Sandy Springs, prosecutors said. The co-defendant in the Buckhead case, Daeun Jones, will be tried at a later date.

The FBI task force, also called the Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force (MATCH), includes the Attorney General’s Office, the Atlanta Police Department, the Smyrna Police Department, the Gwinnett Police Department and many other law enforcement agencies in the greater Atlanta region.