The defendant was brought to Alameda County Superior Court after serving a bank robbery term.
OAKLAND — A Bay Area man who spent nearly seven years in jail on bank robbery charges, only to be brought to court in a Hayward sex trafficking case, was released from jail through a plea deal, record show.
Charles Goatley, 36, pleaded no contest to pimping, and was sentenced to time he’s already served, in a plea deal finalized in March, court records show. In exchange, human trafficking charges against him were dropped. Goatley was released from jail the same day. Goatley was sentenced in 2014 to six and a half years in federal prison on charges that he and another man
in Alameda. Once he was done serving that prison term, he was transferred to Alameda County custody to face the trafficking case, which stemmed from a 2013 arrest, Superior Court.
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