San Jose Escorts: Alamo trial to hinge on witness testimony
Arkansas State Police troopers and FBI agents investigated Alamo long before launching a Sept. 20 raid on his compound in Fouke, a town of 845 people near Arkansas’ border with Louisiana and Texas. Police descended on the 15-acre complex a day after a federal prosecutor accidentally sent an e-mail to reporters that detailed plans to have specialists on hand to help children who allegedly suffered sexual abuse at Alamo’s hand.
Initially, FBI agents looked for evidence Alamo produced child pornography at his ranch home on the compound. Agents seized a Polaroid camera and film during their search a favorite of child pornographers as the film doesn’t require developing. However, the agents recovered no nude photographs, according to court filings.
Alamo, arrested Sept. 25 in Flagstaff, Ariz., instead faces charges that he violated the Mann Act, a federal law that bans carrying women or girls across state lines for “prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.” The 1910 act gave federal authorities powers to prosecute vice crimes over fears about “white slavery” that young women from rural areas moving to the city were being abducted by immigrants and forced into prostitution.