BOSTON — A Boston federal judge handed down a prison sentence of more than a dozen years Tuesday to a South Florida man prosecutors said was part of a human trafficking conspiracy.
From 2020 to 2021, prosecutors said Angelo Dominic Lombardo, 29, of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, conspired with others to traffic four women, using physical violence and coercion, across “various states.”
Lombardo made “false promises of a better life” and ”explicit threats to one of the victims with a firearm, among other things," according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
“His calculated cruelty, including threatening a victim at gunpoint, is unconscionable,” Leah B. Foley, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said in part in a news release on Tuesday.
Prosecutors said in July 2021, one of the victims called the police. Lombardo was arrested on July 12, 2021, after a traffic stop in Boston and faced Massachusetts state charges.
A search of a hotel room in the Boston suburb of Revere, Massachusetts “resulted in the recovery of a firearm with a laser attached matching the descriptions provided by at least two of the victims, and a loaded large capacity magazine with 20 live rounds of ammunition,” prosecutors said.
Lombardo is a convicted felon who was not supposed to have a gun.
He pleaded guilty in January to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion and one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
“Angelo Lombardo felt entitled to treat women not as people, but as property to be sold for sex,” Ted E. Docks, the FBI’s special agent in charge for Boston, said in part in the release. “Today’s sentence ensures he’ll stay locked up, unable to harm anyone else for decades to come.”
Besides a 13-year federal prison sentence, Lombardo will spend five years on supervised release and will be forced to register as a sex offender.
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