{"id":127278,"date":"2022-06-27T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127278"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:20:44","slug":"update-on-sex-trafficking-navy-o-5-select","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127278","title":{"rendered":"Update on sex trafficking Navy O-5 select"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lt Comm Charles Cranston Jr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We talked about this guy, Lieutenant Commander Charles Cranston<\/a>, back in March. Since then, he’s been found guilty of sex trafficking. You’ll remember he’s the one that talked to an undercover cop who he believed was a prostitute, and became the woman’s pimp. He is\/was an active duty Navy O-4 with a line number for O-5. No word in the article as to what the service will do with him.<\/p>\n

From WTKR<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Local Naval officer sentenced to 2 years in prison for sex trafficking charge in Henrico Co<\/h3>\n

A Hampton Roads-based Naval officer was sentenced after pleading guilty to sex trafficking with intent to receive money.<\/p>\n

Authorities arrested Lt. Cmdr. Charles Cranston Jr. last November at a Norfolk base and charged him with commercial sex trafficking. At the time of his arrest, Navy officials told News 3 that Cranston, 47, was assigned to U.S. Fleet Forces Command.<\/p>\n

At a sentencing hearing Friday in Henrico Circuit Court, Cranston received a ten-year sentence with eight years suspended, leaving two years to serve. Cranston will receive credit for time served since his arrest in November 2021.<\/p>\n

A ten-year period of supervised probation will begin upon his release.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said it all started on November 2, 2021, when Henrico County Police’s VICE team posted an ad targeting potential sex trafficking.<\/p>\n

A detective got a response from Cranston after the ad was posted.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors went on to say there were texts from Cranston, using an alias of \u201cTony,\u201d agreeing to split the costs of a hotel room with the prostitute, and discussing what would take place.<\/p>\n

Cranston, according to prosecutors, also told the undercover detective posing as a prostitute he had a studio and OnlyFans website to help make money.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors added that Cranston, in a phone call, expressed wanting to help further the prostitute’s career, and eventually posted an ad on behalf of the prostitute which got more than a dozen responses.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said during the hearing Cranston was arrested with the help of Chesapeake Police and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)<\/p>\n

Cranston was with the Navy for 27 years and has lived in Virginia since September 2019. He’s been in Chesapeake since April 2020 with his family.<\/p>\n

Cranston remains behind bars at Henrico County Jail, with a listed release date of November 7, 2023.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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