Three individuals have been hit with felony charges over two distinct human trafficking cases, following indictments by the Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Multi-County Grand Jury. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) Human Trafficking Unit and the Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD) Vice Unit conducted the investigations leading to these charges, according to the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office.
Inside the walls of Mack Alford Correctional Center, inmate Charquion Pope is alleged to have run a human trafficking ring. The OBN Human Trafficking Unit began to unravel Pope’s scheme in February 2025, when they discovered his purported “pimp” persona splashed across multiple social media accounts and his digits listed in sex-for-hire ads. A Victim Recovery Operation launched later in February spotted a string of communications between Pope and a victim, a grim exchange pointing to Pope’s alleged management of the victim’s commercial sex gigs – from buyer chats to schedule-setting and pocketing the profits.
Documentation from the Department of Corrections, examined by agents, supposedly confirms the finer points of the case against Pope, who they argue was wheeling and dealing through contraband cell phones from his cell…