A man accused of trafficking women was arrested at his million-dollar high-rise condominium in Midtown Atlanta the day before the Super Bowl.
Police arrested Emmett Murphy on Feb. 2 on multiple charges, including trafficking of persons for labor servitude and trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Police told Channel 2 that a 19-year-old woman from New Jersey said she met Murphy on social media. She told officers the two talked for about six months and Murphy repeatedly asked her to come to Atlanta to be in a music video.
The woman said she eventually agreed when the suspect offered her $3,000, police said.
She told police she arrived in Atlanta around 5 p.m. the night before Super Bowl LIII. As soon as she arrived at the suspect’s condo on the 38th floor of The Atlantic, she said he told her she’d be dancing naked at a strip club named Follies and selling her body for money. She said the suspect also told her that she’d be giving him all the money.
The woman told investigators she met another woman inside the condo, who told her the suspect would beat her if she didn’t listen to him.
In an exclusive interview, attorney Mohammed Luwemba told Channel 2 the allegations against Murphy are not true and said his client “can’t believe that he’s been victimized this way by the judicial system.”
Murphy is being held in the Fulton County Jail.
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