Mark Pinnock. Photo courtesy Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board.
Mark Pinnock Jr. was finally free after serving eight years for trafficking a 15-year-old girl for prostitution and he landed a job as a delivery driver for Amazon while out on probation. But this week, the Massachusetts man was sent right back to where started when he was convicted for intimidating a woman who threatened to report him after he exposed his genitals to her.
Pinnock, 32, pleaded guilty to the charge, according to court records obtained by Law&Crime, and he was sentenced on Jan. 5 to 33 months, or just under three years in prison, for a single count of witness intimidation. He also received a sentence of three years probation.
In a statement of information, prosecutors said it was July 2022 when a woman working at a condominium in Brockton, Massachusetts, called police to report that a man had exposed his penis to her.
Within four days of the call, the flasher was deemed to be Pinnock, and he was charged with open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior. By that August, his probation officer sought to revoke his release from prison and a judge just two months later set a hearing on the matter for November 2022.
But one week before it would be decided whether his bond should be revoked, Pinnock called a security officer at the Brockton condo complex.
He told the person, who was not identified in court records, to warn the “cleaning lady” not to come to court. He also instructed this co-conspirator to pretend that he worked for state and to warn her if she went to court, she would be deported.
The person “stood with a hand in his pocket as if he had something in it” to further intimidate her, prosecutors said.
Over the next few days, Pinnock, “while confined to his residence, made three calls to the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line in attempt to have the victim detained or removed from the United States,” court records show
He told DHS the woman was “trying to … put … cases on people … so she can try to get her … citizenship and stuff like that” and that she was “gang affiliated.”
When the operator asked him who he was, Pinnock admitted he was the defendant the victim was preparing to testify against within the next 48 to 72 hours.
Pinnock served eight years in prison starting in 2014 after Massachusetts police located him transporting a 15-year-old girl between Baltimore and Boston for sex. Court records show he would advertise the girl online using sites like Craigslist and the now defunct Backpage.com. Backpage was shuttered in 2018 for its sweeping sex trafficking violations.
Prosecutors said the teenage victim was coaxed into becoming an escort by Pinnock and that upon an interview with investigators prior to his arrest, they learned that she thought escort work had something to do with the drug trade. She also told police Pinnock paid for her bus ticket from Baltimore to Boston. Once she realized what Pinnock was demanding she do for money, prosecutors said the girl admitted to feeling like she “had no choice” because she had no way of paying for her ride back home to Maryland.
Pinnock enticed the girl to have sex with 10 men and told clients she was 20 years old. He also took her to “parties” to introduce her to prospective clients, the sex trafficking indictment states.
It wasn’t until the girl was finally able to sneak away from Pinnock that she could call her father and ask for him to come get her. Police were alerted “minutes later” and Pinnock was arrested shortly afterward. Police apparently uncovered a vast swath of text messages between Pinnock and a fellow pimp, including nude photos of the minor girl that he sent to prospective clients.
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