10/28/2015 – Edmond, OK — A woman at the center of a recently busted Edmond brothel, run by her University of Central Oklahoma senior pimp and boyfriend, appears on an Internet ad for an Edmond massage parlor as a warrant is issued for her arrest on a shoplifting charge.
JohnTV has several times now reported on 21-year-old Rachel Lauren Herrera of Del City – starting back in January, after her former ‘John,’ turned boyfriend, turned pimp – Ali Hussain Al-Yousuf – was busted advertising on Backpage.com a brothel he was running out of his upscale Edmond apartment.
The Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office, in its infinite wisdom, choose to ignore the fact Herrera and Al-Yousuf committed felony computer crimes and had both their infant daughter and Herrera’s underage sister at their brothel apartment while they were inviting strangers over to pay for sex. The couple was only charged with misdemeanor offenses; Al-Yousuf with maintaining a house of prostitute and aiding and abetting prostitution and Herrera with engaging in prostitution. Both received deferred sentences (probation only, no official conviction or record) earlier this year – because, as DA David Prater has publicly stated, he has a policy of being more lenient on younger prostitution and human trafficking offenders (aka, I don’t have the balls to do the job I was elected to do).
Prater’s leniency naturally only encouraged Herrera and Al-Yousuf’s delusions of being the next Bonnie and Clyde – as is apparent in these Facebook images Al-Yousuf posted following Prater’s ‘Hug-A-Thug’ version of justice….
Ali Al-Yousuf Facebook public Facebook post.
Ali Al-Yousuf Facebook public Facebook post.
Oh, and the fact that only seven days after pleading guilty to prostitution, Herrera was charged with felony larceny of merchandise from a local Target Store (and once again she involved her underage sister). Al-Yousuf, after being arrested and held by immigration in Tulsa, had a warrant issued for his arrest in Sept. on an application to accelerate his deferred pimping sentence.
Rachel Herrera public Facebook post.
Additionally, just last Wednesday, Herrera appeared in a Backpage.com ‘body rubs’ ad for Empire Massage Studio in Edmond (West 15th and Fretz). You can see the ad below… (Rachel is featured in the bottom right as ‘Alex’)
Empire Massage on West 15th in Edmond.
Oddly enough, Empire Massage removed Herrera’s photo in their most recent ad, posted today.
JohnTV has no idea why Herrera’s photo was removed from Empire’s ad, if Herrera even still works there, or if her employment included acts of prostitution. What we do know is that yesterday a new warrant was issued for Herrera’s arrest for failure to appear in court on her felony larceny charge.
If you happen to know where Herrera is, please feel free to contact the Oklahoma County Warrant Squad at 405-713-2070.
JohnTV will continue to follow this case.
