‘Guerrilla pimp’ who forced 16-year-olds to work notorious NYC site kept ammo in bizarre hiding place: feds
A Brooklyn “guerrilla pimp” who stashed ammo in his air fryer forced victims as young as 16 to work for him at a notorious open-air sex market in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors say.
Ferron Facey, 38, was hit with a slew of charges after threatening the young women into working for him at the not-so-secret “Penn Track” in East New York — where he used violence and coercion to control them, according to Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Facey, also known as “Azul” or “Royal Da P,” recruited at least two women — the young teen and a 20-year-old — to work the sex market in early July, prosecutors said.
He allegedly exchanged text messages with the minor victim in which he discussed prostitution meet-ups and prices, including for a “car date.”
The 20-year-old woman was able to escape and reported Facey to a non-governmental agency in Houston, Texas, where she labeled him as an “abusive guerrilla pimp” who beat her and choked her until she nearly passed out, according to court papers.
Facey was arrested Monday inside his home, where federal agents found a loaded 9mm handgun in a bedroom and several rounds of ammunition hidden in an air fryer in the kitchen.
Authorities said they also found a powdery substance scattered all over a bathroom and nearly $3,000 in cash rolled up in elastic behind a bed in the bedroom.
Prosecutors claim Facey has a “history” of threatening violence against women after he was caught on camera in a social-media video verbally assaulting a woman at the Penn Track — before two women get out of his car and jump the woman.
“I got hoes out here that’ll beat you up right now,” Facey allegedly said before adding that he “puts hands on b–ches.”
Facey’s arrest comes after federal prosecutors arrested two pimps from the “Penn Track” in April for allegedly killing a rival who tried to recruit one of their sex workers.
Omari “Sir Prince” Scott, 43, and Michael “Victory” Simmons, 42, were hit with charges related to a deadly turf war — which ended with the fatal shooting of fellow flesh peddler Cleveland Clay, prosectors have said.
Facey was ordered detained on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution of young women from out of state by a Brooklyn Federal Court judge at his arraignment.
He faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years if convicted of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion — while the interstate prostitution charges comes with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
