9/16/2013 – Tulsa, OK — An Oklahoma City couple, arrested in Tulsa on a human trafficking complaint, have been named in a federal grand jury indictment earlier this month.
Members of the Tulsa Police Vice Unit arrested Ronald E. Spivey, 47, aka ‘Big Daddy’, and Kimberly Haven, 25, in July outside a Tulsa restaurant.
Details are few, but JohnTV believes that undercover officers in Tulsa placed an ad online – pretending to be a female juvenile needing to make some money. In response, either Spivey or Haven texted the undercover officer, asking ‘her’ to go to Florida or Vegas to make the needed money.
Kimberly Haven posing for a Backpage.com prostitution ad at a hotel near I-40 and South Meridian.
When Spivey and Haven met with what they thought was going to be an underage female, they were taken into custody.
Court records indicate that Haven told officers “she was recruiting girls to prostitute.”
Both Spivey and Haven were booked into the Tulsa County Jail. Spivey’s bond was set at $200,000 and Haven’s at $100,000.
On Sept. 6, both Spivey and Haven were named in a grand jury indictment and described as being involved in a “sex trafficking business with the intent to recruit and prostitute children under the age of 17.”
US Attorney Danny C Williams for the Northern District of Oklahoma says if convicted, Spivey would face a minimum of 10 years in prison and up to a $500,000 fine and Haven would face a maximum of five years in prison and up to $250,000 fine.
The couple remains in custody unable to make bond.
JohnTV readers may recall that Spivey was arrested in Aug. of last year in Oklahoma City during a highly publicized multi-agency prostitution sting that netted 48 arrests.
In that instance, Spivey was arrested and charged with transporting an individual for the purpose of prostitution.
And, in another example of how truly lax Oklahoma County is with pimps, Spivey pleaded guilty in April of this year and was sentenced to only a fine – even though he is a previously convicted felon and a known violent pimp and human trafficker going back to 1998.
JohnTV will continue to follow this case.