Alabama Sex Trafficking Ringleader Gets 54 Years as Five Defendants Receive Nearly 120 in Total

Overview

• A federal judge in the Middle District of Alabama sentenced Kimani Jones, 32, to 54 years in prison and his father, Tremayne Lambert, 50, to 30 years after their October 2025 convictions.
• The court ordered restitution to survivors totaling $1,010,926.50 from Jones and $510,850 from Lambert.
• Co-defendants who pleaded guilty were also sentenced: Joseph Keon Bowe to 235 months, Daryle Gardner to 195 months, and Aleecia Scott to 36 months of probation, with additional restitution orders.
• Jones was convicted of multiple counts including sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, and interstate transportation for prostitution; Lambert was convicted of three counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.
• Trial evidence detailed a five-year operation using hotels, online ads, physical assaults, firearms, and drug dependence to control victims, with HSI, Alabama state and local agencies investigating and DOJ prosecutors leading the case.