Violent Pimp Sentenced to 11 Years for Trafficking Juveniles Across Oregon and Washington

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Washington confirmed that a violent pimp,  35-year-old Dominique Terrel Gonzales from Washington State, who trafficked victims across the country, was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday.

Pimp Who Preyed On Oregon & Washington Juveniles Sentenced

Gonzales preyed on juveniles and young women, forcing them into prostitution to support his expensive lifestyle of luxury cars, multiple apartments, travel, and luxury goods from his residences in Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, and Washington, as well as several short-term rental homes on the East Coast.

He used violence, threats, and emotional coercion to force vulnerable young women into having sex with strangers and giving their earnings to him.

Preying on teenagers and insecure young women who were estranged from their families, Gonzales physically beat them, verbally assaulted them, and forced them to install tracking programs on their cellphones so that he could follow their every move. To fund his luxurious lifestyle, he used any means necessary to ensure that his victims engaged in prostitution.

The case heard in the U.S. District Court in Tacoma court centered on a Seattle investigation by law enforcement in Idaho. Court documents indicate that in August 2020, Gonzales trafficked a juvenile female across state lines to Portland, Oregon, where he forced her to engage in commercial sex acts.

Between 2016 and 2019, Gonzalez also used force, fraud, and coercion to force four adult women to work for him as prostitutes.

Gonzales lured victims he met on daying appa, promising them a relationship before pushing them to perform sex acts on strangers.  He arranged the “dates” and then used threats and violence before forcing the women to turn over any money they earned. One victim was lured from her Idaho home and then forced to engage in prostitution.

Gonzales had a Desert Eagle 9mm semi-automatic pistol and ammunition in his possession when he was arrested, despite three felony convictions prohibiting him from possessing firearms. The felonies were:

• 2 counts of second-degree assault (domestic violence): Found guilty in August 2014 in King County Superior Court.
• 1 count of unlawful imprisonment for domestic violence from the same incident.

Gonzales has been in federal custody since his illegal firearm possession arrest in August 2020.

U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle sentenced Gonzales yesterday to 11 years in prison for the sex trafficking of a minor and ordered that Gonzales be on supervised release for 15 years following his prison term. Restitution for the victims will be set at a hearing in August 2025.

For more information about human trafficking, visit the Human Trafficking Hotline website. If you have information about human trafficking, report this to the National Human Trafficking Hotline toll-free (available 24 hours a day, seven days a week) at 1-888-373-7888.