Eugene man pleads guilty to trafficking minor in Lane County, Seattle

Federal prosecutors said Anthony D’Montrez Crawford, 30, of Eugene pleaded guilty Tuesday to sex trafficking a minor after admitting he trafficked a 17-year-old girl in Eugene and Springfield from July 2024 to August 2024 and transported her to Seattle on two occasions for prostitution.

The plea moves the case from allegations to sentencing and gives Lane County a stark local example of how child trafficking can move through familiar places, from neighborhood streets in Eugene and Springfield to hotel rooms and interstate travel corridors. Crawford had been charged by information on March 5, 2026.

The case did not begin with the guilty plea. On Sept. 5, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Crawford and Kaytlynn Ann Crawford, also identified as Kaytlynn Ann Crawford a/k/a Alderman, had been arrested and charged by criminal complaint. Prosecutors alleged sex trafficking of children by force, fraud or coercion, transportation for prostitution, coercing a minor to travel for prostitution, use of an interstate facility to induce a minor into prostitution, transportation of a minor for prostitution and conspiracy. The earlier filing said Crawford advertised sexual services online, coordinated prices and services by phone and text, rented hotel rooms, collected money through intimidation, threats of violence and actual violence, and drove victims in rental cars to other cities, including Portland. FBI Seattle rescued a minor victim forced into prostitution in Seattle, Portland and the Eugene-Springfield area, and an adult victim was also identified.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Huynh prosecuted the case as part of Project Safe Childhood, the Justice Department initiative launched in 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. For families, schools and teens, the warning signs in this case were concrete: secretive phone use, online sex ads, hotel rooms, unexplained trips to other cities and adults controlling where a minor goes and who they meet.

Lane County has seen similar enforcement before. In a 2016 Eugene-area case, Darryl Tyrone Norwood Jr. was sentenced to 160 months in prison after prosecutors said he trafficked a 16-year-old on and off for four months using online solicitation, hotel rooms, rides to locations and a phone to facilitate the abuse. Prosecutors said then that stopping sex trafficking throughout Oregon was a top priority.

The broader public-safety picture remains troubling. Oregon Department of Transportation says human trafficking occurs in rural, suburban and urban areas, and the National Human Trafficking Hotline identified 160 cases involving 227 victims in Oregon in 2024. Lane County’s OR-500 Eugene, Springfield/Lane County Continuum of Care coordinates housing programs and services across the county and secures more than $4 million in annual funding, a system that becomes critical when victims need shelter, stabilization and trauma-informed support after rescue.