Kevin LaGarde, 37, was charged with human trafficking and inflicting corporal injury to a cohabitant.
OAKLAND — An Oakland man was arrested and charged with human trafficking, battering and injuring a woman, and threatening the alleged victim, who reported that she was being forced into prostitution six weeks before the charges were filed, court records show.
Kevin LaGarde, 37, was charged in late February, and is being held without bail, records show. He is due for a preliminary hearing next week, where a judge will review evidence and decide if there is enough to order LaGarde to stand trial. According to police, the alleged victim reported to investigators that on Jan. 4, LaGarde choked her until she went unconscious at the Jack London Inn in Oakland. She also told police LaGarde had been forcing her to have sex with strangers for money for the last three months. She was hospitalized as a precaution but LaGarde wasn’t arrested or charged, records show.
Six weeks later, on Feb. 22, Oakland police Ofc. Giovanni Loverde arrested LaGarde on suspicion of assaulting the woman a second time, and wrote in a police report that he observed a bruise on her arm and that she again identified LaGarde as her trafficker. In 2016, Loverde was one of numerous Bay Area officers charged with sexually abusing the same trafficking victim, butThe charging records say LaGarde has a 2006 conviction for attempted murder and was on probation at the time of his arrest. He has pleaded not guilty.
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