9/18/2013 – JohnTV has uncovered more details regarding an Oklahoma couple recently indicted in Tulsa for human trafficking – details that indicate the couple’s indictment is tied to both Oklahoma City and Tulsa prostitution activities and may cast one of the accused in a new light….. “victim” as opposed to “trafficker.”
Local media, and JohnTV, were all abuzz with the July arrest and Sept indictment in Tulsa of Ronald Everette Spivey Jr., 47, aka ‘Big Daddy’, and Kimberly Haven, 25, both of Oklahoma City.
According to court records, on July 25, a female undercover Tulsa police officer placed an ad in the ‘escort’ section of Backpage.com and indicated that she needed to make some money.
Soon thereafter, Spivey replied to the ad via text message and suggested that the undercover officer should go with him to Vegas or Florida to work.
The female officer replied that she was only 17-years old and was a stripper – to which Spivey replied that he was “cool” with that.
Spivey and the undercover officer continued to exchange text messages over the next few days.
![Ronald Spivey in a 2006 DOC mugshot.]()
Ronald Spivey in a 2006 DOC mugshot.
Eventually, Spivey insisted on meeting the undercover officer so that he could take her to Dallas. The officer stated that she would meet Spivey at the McDonald’s located near Admiral and Memorial in Tulsa and would be wearing a pink shirt.
When Spivey arrived at the McDonald’s he parked across the street and sent Haven on foot to approach the undercover officer (Like the coward he is).
When Haven was arrested she told investigators that she was sent inside by Spivey to look for a woman in a pink shirt. Haven also reportedly told officers she was “recruiting girls to prostitute.”
On Aug. 13, Spivey and Haven were charged in Tulsa County with attempted human trafficking.
JohnTV, having encountered Haven previously on S. Robinson Ave. in south Oklahoma City, felt something wasn’t quite right with this story so we did a little more digging and what we found casts additional light on this case and begs the question, “should Haven be treated as a predator or prey?”
JohnTV reported on Spivey back in Aug. of 2012 when he was arrested, along with at least 47 others, for transporting an individual for the purpose of prostitution.
In that case, Spivey allegedly drove a known female prostitute to the upscale Skirvin hotel in downtown OKC to meet with a ‘John’ that had contacted her through an ad she had placed on Backpage.com. What Spivey didn’t realize is that he was driving right into an undercover prostitution sting conducted by OKC Vice, the FBI and OBN.
The prostitute, Leslie Lee Grant, was taken into custody after she agreed to perform specific sexual acts in exchange for money.
Spivey was then confronted by agents who had been watching him and placed under arrest after he was found to be in possession of a cell phone associated with online prostitution ads and allegedly admitted that he, “had an idea that [Grant] was going to the hotel to engage in prostitution related activities.”
Even though Spivey has extensive DOC criminal record, in April of this year he was allowed to negotiate a plea of guilty in exchange for only a fine and court costs. This, despite court records that indicate that police and prosecutors acknowledge Spivey is a violent pimp going back to at least 1998.
Quote from Oklahoma County search warrant #SW-13-596
Spivey has been identified as a suspect in numerous police reports as a pimp. Several of the reports involved female victims under the age of eighteen. Spivey was known to use drugs and/or physical violence to get some of these women to work for him. … It should be noted that Spivey’s involvement in prostitution goes back to 1998. …
As proof that such lax sentences only empower and embolden the criminal activity of the likes of Spivey, just five days after his guilty plea and slap-on-the-wrist, Spivey was encountered during another OKC Vice sting.
According to court documents, on Apr. 23, Spivey once again was spotted by undercover officers transporting a woman for prostitution.
Around 10:40 p.m. Spivey drove Kimberly Haven, to the LaQuinta Inn near I-40 and Meridian after undercover officers responded to her Backpage.com escort ad.
Once in the hotel room, Haven became suspicious of the undercover officer and left a few minutes later without establishing probable cause for her arrest.
Fifteen days later (5/8/2013) Haven walked into the Oklahoma County Court Clerk’s office and filed for a Victim’s Protective Order against Spivey.
In her petition for a protective order, Haven identified Spivey as her “boyfriend” and indicated that he had threatened, harassed and stalked her.
Ronald is abusive. He has choked me, hit me in my face. Busted my lip. Said he was gonna have me beat up by someone else (girls). Calls me constantly. When he would hit me and I wanted to leave he wouldn’t let me leave. I told him to leave me alone and he said no. He said he was going to find me. He keeps me from my family. He threatened to have me beat up when I go to court (My family has seen me beat up). All of this happened at his apartment. He blacked my nose and eye. I’ve had multiple bruises on my body. All over. Arms, legs, face, hands. I’m scared to walk down the street by myself. He has prior domestic abuse charges.
Haven’s fear of Spivey was not unwarranted and police records back up his threats of violence against any woman who dares to leave him, cooperates with police or attempts to get a VPO against him.
Quote from Oklahoma County search warrant #SW-13-596
… Spivey was also accused of raping several of the females that filed police reports, but were too afraid to follow through with criminal prosecution efforts…
Spivey apparently made good on his threats against Haven as she was found in his apartment during a May 20, search warrant executed by Oklahoma City Vice.
According to court documents from the search of Spivey’s apartment at The Highlands (12701 N. Penn #293, OKC),
On 5/20/13 at approximately 1030 hours the OCPD Vice Unit executed a search warrant at the apartment of Ronald Spivey (AR). Spivey and a female were contacted inside the apartment. I interviewed the female, who is a known prostitute, while the apartment search was conducted. During the interview, the female confirmed that she worked for Spivey as a prostitute and gave him most of the money she made from her prostitution activities. The female said she was afraid of Spivey because of the physical and mental abuse she received from Spivey. I was aware that the female recently filed for a victim’s protective order (VPO) against Spivey. The female advised that she never sought medical attention for the injuries she received from Spivey but that the injuries were possibly documented by medical staff at medical facilities she’d visited for other medical reasons. The female explained that she came back to Spivey a week after she filed for the VPO because he had all her belongings including her ID cards and birth certificate. It should be noted that officers found the female’s ID in Spivey’s wallet and her birth certificate in the bottom drawer of the nightstand in Spivey’s bedroom on his side of the bed. One of the female’s ID’s were found hidden between the mattresses in a second bedroom.
Among the items seized during the search warrant were;
- Papers containing handwritten notes regarding female’s names, numbers and ‘John’ information.
- State of Oklahoma driver’s license for Kimberly Haven (located between the mattress and box springs of a twin bed).
- Numerous Visa gift cards, MasterCard debit cards and WalMart debit cards.
- Multiple Oklahoma MasterCard tax refund cards.
- A box of ‘erotic services’ business cards.
- A state of Oklahoma ID card in the name of Danielle Renee Smith.
- A state of Oklahoma driver’s license in the name of Sheena Roslind Marie Bauer.
- A state of Oklahoma ID card in the name of Kayla Marie Buff.
- A state of Oklahoma driver’s license in the name of Leslie Renee Grant.
- A Seminole Nation tribal ID card in the name of Rayna Claire Harjo.
- Digital scales.
- Pepper spray.
- Birth certificate for Kimberly Marie Haven.
- Marijuana.
- Numerous medical bills for Kimberly Haven.
- 10 pages of documents regarding Melissa Ann (Gallaher) Pope.
- Nextbook tablet PC
- 14 cell phones.
During the investigation, OKC Vice was able to connect numerous online ads for prostitution to cell phones belonging to Spivey as noted in the affidavit for search warrant #SW-13-596,
Spivey’s cell phone number has been associated with several escort ads posted on various Internet websites. Several of these ads featured photos of different females. One of the females appeared to be very young and has yet to be positively identified. The background areas in these photos appeared to be from inside the same apartment. … While inside Spivey’s apartment, officers were able to identify the locations where several of the photos were taken. Officers also located photo identification cards for some of the females featured in the escort ads, inside Spivey’s apartment. Some of the females that Spivey attempted to work for him as prostitutes reported that he took their identification and other personal belongings and refused to give them back unless they worked for him.
Three days after the search warrant (5/23/2013), Haven appeared before Judge Andrews in an Oklahoma County courtroom. Spivey had not been served a summons to appear, so Haven received a new June court date.
On June 11, the VPO was dismissed after Spivey appeared in court, but Haven did not.
As a result of the May search warrant, OKC Vice was granted two additional search warrants – one that was served to Backpage.com, owned by the Village Voice media and the other to retrieve the electronic data stored on 14 cell phones and one tablet pc recovered during the initial search.
In one of the warrants, Backpage was ordered to turn over identifying information related to seven prostitution related ads posted in Oklahoma City and Palm Springs.
Just a month after Haven’s attempted VPO against Spivey was dismissed and just two months after Haven told officers she was prostituting for Spivey out of force, fear and coercion she was arrested in Tulsa during a prostitution sting and subsequently indicted, along with Spivey, for human trafficking – where she now faces the very real possibility of being sentenced to five-years in prison.
![Haven as she appears in prostitution related ads and on social media.]()
Haven as she appears in prostitution related ads and on social media.
So, JohnTV asks….. based on this evidence, is Haven a ruthless pimp and human trafficker or a textbook example of a woman forced to do whatever her pimp demands of her – including prostituting herself and recruiting others?
Some might say, “She’s a 25-year-old woman so she’s old enough to know better and fully capable of getting away from Spivey.”
Had Haven lived a ‘normal’ life up to the age of 25 and then happened to meet Spivey, then, in many ways JohnTV would support that idea of personal responsibility.
But that doesn’t appear to be the case. While we know little of Haven’s childhood, what we do know paints a picture of anything but ‘normal.’
Records indicate that Haven and her sister grew up in a broken family and were allegedly exploited by more than just pimps.
Haven’s parents divorced when she was only seven-years old.
By the age of 13 (2001) Haven’s mother had died.
Guardianship of Haven and her sister was awarded to a Paul and Janetta Mitchell (no relation was defined in the court documents reviewed by JohnTV).
Haven’s father, Joe Haven, through local attorney Sam Caporal, filed to have guardianship returned to him shortly thereafter.
During this time in 2002 things apparently started going terribly wrong for Haven, as noted in a court record authored by a police detective,
Haven is a known prostitute and has been associated with the prostitution business since 2002. Haven was thirteen when she was first contacted by the OCPD Vice Unit.
It is alleged that attorney Caporal failed to attend the 2002 court hearing regarding guardianship. Caporal then allegedly failed to attend the rescheduled hearing in 2003 and Caporal took no further action.
Joe Haven died in 2004 – leaving Haven and her sister without parents.
In May of 2011 a civil case was filed on Haven and her sister’s behalf in regard to nearly $100,000 that they allege was wrongfully denied them after their father’s death.
In the lawsuit, Haven and her sister alleged that local attorney Sam G. Caporal and Haven’s aunt and trustee Donna Loyd…
engaged in malicious use of process, abuse of process, fraud, conversion, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and professional negligence. … Plaintiff’s claims against defendant Donna Loyd are based upon conversion and misuse of funds while acting under the color of guardianship. Defendant Sam Caporal’s professional negligence provided the opportunity for and allowed for the concealment of the wrongful acts of Donna Loyd.
What is apparently at issue is approximately $100,000 in life insurance benefits issued to Haven and her sister upon their father’s death in 2004.
The lawsuit contends that attorney Caporal filed a guardianship petition naming Haven’s aunt, Donna Loyd, as guardian over Haven and her sister’s estates since both siblings were minors – though the sisters were approximately 16 and 17 at the time of the filing and 18 when guardianship was awarded to Loyd.
![Haven's prostitution mugshot at the age of 18.]()
Haven’s prostitution mugshot at the age of 18.
The lawsuit goes on to claim that less than a month later Loyd cashed the benefit checks, paid Caporal over $14,000 and the balance has remained unaccounted for.
It is also alleged that social security payments made to Haven were deposited by Loyd and did not directly benefit the siblings.
Loyd apparently told the siblings in 2004 that the money was in a trust and would not be made available to them until they reached the age of 25.
Haven’s attorney contends that information is false and that Loyd continues to refuse to account for the nearly $100,000 in benefits owed to Haven and her sister.
Both attorney Caporal and trustee Loyd, through court filings, deny the Haven siblings allegations.
It would appear Haven had little control or normalcy during her teen and pre-teen years. Exposed to prostitution at the age of 13 and being under the mental and physical control of the likes of Spivey has robbed Haven of the ability to make decisions that are in her best interest.
Haven is currently being held in the Tulsa County Jail.
Her original bond of $100,000 was reduced to $75,000 on Sept 11.
JohnTV will continue to follow this case and invites readers to share your support to define and treat Haven as a ‘victim’ and not an ‘offender.’