OAKLAND — Barely a year after being freed from jail in a plea deal that convicted him of trafficking a teenager, an Alameda man is back in jail under similar circumstances.
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This time, 37-year-old Adesola Kehinde is being charged with violating his probation, and with possessing a gun and ammunition as a felon, court records show. But the charge doesn’t tell the whole story — Alameda police say Kehinde was arrested last month while sitting in a vehicle parked outside his apartment, with a 17-year-old girl in the passenger’s seat.
Kehinde was required to register as a sex offender for life after his 2022 plea deal and barred from contacting minors, police said in court records.
Police searched Kehinde’s vehicle on Jan. 9, but for the prior two months, detectives in Alameda and Sacramento County have investigated Kehinde for alleged involvement in trafficking a teen girl who ran away from her Northern California home. Phone records placed the girl at the same Buena Vista Avenue apartment complex where Kehinde lives, and police conducted surveillance showing him taking a female to and from a hotel in Oakland that’s known to be a hotspot for prostitution, authorities said. But he was never charged.
Kehinde’s 2022 plea deal stemmed from an incident in 2021 when a girl he was trafficking secretly texted a social worker that she was being held against her will. The girl later told authorities that she spent two weeks being trafficked around hotels in Oakland from an apartment in Alameda, during which time she was sexually abused by 140 people.
Kehinde was also initially charged with sexually assaulting the girl. But at his June 2022 preliminary hearing, prosecutors conceded they hadn’t established enough evidence to move forward on the sex abuse charges and instead asked only for a holding order on the human trafficking count. Five months later, he accepted a plea deal for time served, probation and sex offender registration, court records show.
Kehinde’s bail has been set at $100,000 and he is next due in court Wednesday.