The Contra Costa County District Attorney has charged a Diablo Valley College faculty member and track coach in connection with human trafficking, pimping and other charges for making two women commit crimes of prostitution.
Kyle Lee Whitmore, a 39-year-old Crockett resident, was arrested last Thursday after one of the women reported her situation to authorities at DVC, a community college based in Pleasant Hill, prosecutors said on Tuesday.He was charged Monday and is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday afternoon in Martinez.
Whitmore did not have a defense attorney listed on record. He is also being held without bail at the West County Detention Facility.Officials at the school and the Contra Costa Community College District that oversees it were not immediately available to comment on the charges against Whitmore, who prosecutors said is an instructor of communication studies and track coach at DVC.
Whitmore had been featured prominently at DVC, winning track coach of the year in 2021-22. The school also interviewed him two years ago in aAnyone with information about the case is asked to call the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office investigation division at 313-2600. People wanting to report human trafficking cases in the county can call a District Attorney's Office hotline at 957-8658 or a national hotline at 211.
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