72-year-old Fort Worth pimp wanted $100 a week from woman he trafficked, warrant says
A 72-year-old Fort Worth man suspected of beating a woman if she didn’t bring him money as a prostitute was in custody Tuesday and accused in a human trafficking case, according to jail records and a warrant.
Charles E. Miller was booked into the Fort Worth Jail on Monday afternoon.
He faces a charge of compelling prostitution by force/threat/coercion, according to jail records.
Officers were dispatched to a human trafficking call on Dec. 18 in the 500 block of Tierney Road at the suspect’s home.
A 45-year-old woman was the reported victim in the case, according to a police call log.
Human trafficking detectives investigated the case.
The warrant written by Fort Worth Detective A. Matthews provided this account:
In a December interview, the woman told Matthews she had met Miller, who goes by the name “Cat,” five to seven years ago.
Initially, Miller provided rides to the woman, and she moved in with him when he eventually got an apartment.
Miller started controlling and harassing her, and demanding for her to help pay the rent. At times, he locked her out of the apartment.
Miller wanted at least $100 per week, and she had to do whatever she needed in order to make the money, he told her. He noted that women walked along Tierney to prostitute themselves.
The Fort Worth man threatened to hurt or kill the woman if she did bring him any money, according to the warrant.
The woman told the detective she stayed with Miller because he was holding important documents from her which she needed to move.
In November, the woman told Matthews she was admitted to John Peter Smith Hospital for blunt-force trauma to her head. Detectives received medical records from JPS in January that verified she suffered the injuries.
After she was released from the hospital, Miller assaulted her when she refused to have sex with him, according to the warrant.
She escaped and called police in December.
In Texas, there are more than 300,000 victims of human trafficking, according to a state study. That included 79,000 minors and youth victims in sex trafficking and nearly 234,000 adult victims of labor trafficking, according to the report from the Statewide Human Trafficking Mapping Project Texas. The study was conducted by the Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Texas at Austin, and Allies Against Slavery.
Miller’s only other arrest in Tarrant County came in 2018, according to Tarrant County court records. He was sentenced to 21 months’ probation for driving while intoxicated.
Miller was in the Tarrant County Jail on Tuesday in lieu of $50,000 bail.
