OAKLAND– Eugene Latrell McNeely, aka Sleepy, aka Slim Sleep da Mac, pleaded guilty in federal court to transportation of a minor with intent to prostitute.
In pleading guilty, McNeely, 36, of Oakland, admitted that on October 3, 2015, he drove from Oakland to Salem, Oregon, picked up a fourteen-year-old girl that he had been communicating with by text message and through Facebook messenger, and drove her across state lines back to Oakland, California to work as one of his prostitutes. For approximately three months thereafter, the child worked as a prostitute and McNeely was her pimp.
On November 1, 2018, a federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment charging McNeely with one count of transportation of a minor for prostitution; one count of sex trafficking of children and two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.
McNeely is currently in federal custody awaiting sentencing.
