Washington County Busts 2nd Time Pimp For 'Running 6 Girls'

Washington County Attorney Pete Orput Wednesday announced that Shaun Michael Maubach, 32, of Mahtomedi entered a guilty plea to sex trafficking of an individual. He was sentenced immediately to 180 months in prison.

Since Maubach had a previous sex trafficking conviction he was also sentenced to an additional 48 months in prison for a total of 228 months.

According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, Maubach was arrested on a Kansas burglary warrant. Police searched his phone and found pictures indicative of the promotion of prostitution and commercial sex trafficking. This included evidence of the posting of numerous commercial sex ads which connected to one woman.

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Text messages on the phone showed that Maubach admitted being a pimp and that he said he was "running 6 girls." After posting bail on the Kansas charge, police found that Maubach was again posting ads for commercial sex with a phone number listing to one woman, according to a news release.

Police then texted this woman and set up a meeting with her, purportedly for sex. Surveillance was set up at the site and police observed Maubach driving a woman to the meet location.

The woman was interviewed and stated that Maubach drove her there for the purpose of sex for money. Maubach had a prior human trafficking related conviction from 2009.

This investigation was the culmination of collaboration between the Washington County Attorney’s Office, the Oakdale Police Department and the Woodbury Police Department.

Orput stated, "Human sex trafficking knows no city boundaries. This investigation shows what inter-agency collaboration can do to further the fight against sex and human trafficking. The use and abuse of these trafficking victims is sickening and antithetical to any rational human being."

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