A father‑son duo led a five‑year operation fueled by violence, drugs, and coercion. Seven victims—including two minors—have now seen their abusers brought to justice.
A federal court has handed down nearly 120 years in prison to five members of a Alabama‑based sex trafficking ring, closing a case prosecutors described as one of the most brutal human trafficking prosecutions in the state’s recent history.
Kimani Jones, 32, known on the streets as “Statik,” was sentenced to 54 years for leading the operation. His father, Tremayne Lambert, 50, known as “Bayrock,” received 30 years for his role as enforcer and monitor. Three other co‑defendants received sentences ranging from 36 months of probation to nearly 20 years in prison.
The sentences, announced Thursday by the Department of Justice, mark the culmination of a years‑long investigation that uncovered a systematic campaign of violence, addiction, and exploitation targeting seven individuals—two of whom were minors at the time.
A Business Built on Violence
For five years, according to evidence presented at trial, Jones ran an extensive commercial sex operation that spanned multiple cities. He rented hotel rooms, posted online advertisements soliciting customers, set daily earnings quotas, and dictated where victims would live and work. Jones had no legitimate employment during that period; he lived entirely off the proceeds of the trafficking, often flaunting cash on social media.
But the machinery of the operation was held together by fear.
The jury heard testimony that Jones routinely choked, punched, and beat the women and girls under his control. In one instance, he grabbed a minor victim by the throat and dragged her across the floor for moving too slowly. He knocked out one woman’s teeth, broke another’s jaw, and struck a third so hard she urinated on herself.
Jones also used sexual assault as a tool of dominance, threatened to harm family members—telling one victim that her son “would not be able to play sports if his legs were broken”—and brandished firearms in front of victims. A convicted felon with a prior federal firearms charge, Jones further controlled victims by facilitating addictions to heroin and methamphetamine, using drugs to ensure their continued participation in commercial sex acts.