Randolph Man Sent Behind Bars For Braintree Sex Trafficking

BOSTON, MA — A Randolph man will spend time behind bars for running a sex trafficking operation around Greater Boston and Cape Cod, the state Attorney General's office announced Tuesday.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury found Marvin Pompilus, (a.k.a. “Kise”), 33, guilty of 10 counts of trafficking people for sexual servitude and seven counts of deriving support from prostitution. Judge Mitchell Kaplan sentenced Pompilus to 6-6.5 years in a state prison. The AG’s Office had recommended a sentence of 12-15 years in state prison.

“This defendant preyed on vulnerable women and profited off of their exploitation,” Attorney General Maura Healey said in a release. “This has become a troubling pattern we are seeing in our efforts to combat both human trafficking and the devastating opioid epidemic here in our state—a pattern that we are dedicated to disrupting to protect people from this egregious conduct.”

An investigation into Pompilus began in May 2015 after the case was referred by the Randolph Police Department. Pompilus was arrested that August in Randolph by Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Attorney General's Office along with the Randolph Police.

Pompilus targeted and recruited multiple women over a two-year period to provide commercial sexual services at hotels and other locations in Randolph, Boston, Braintree, and Hyannis. Pompilus would have the women post ads online offering sexual services in exchange for money. Pompilus allegedly kept the money from these sexual encounters and would provide the women with drugs instead, according to the AG's office.

He was indicted in November 2015 and arraigned in Suffolk, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties and all charges were then consolidated into Suffolk Superior Court.

Information in this article was provided by the state Attorney General's office.

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