Illinois Man Sentenced to 24 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking

RAPID CITY - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Niles, Illinois, man convicted of three counts of Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion and one count of Money Laundering. The sentencing took place on May 30, 2025.

Daniel J. Kubica, a/k/a “Danny Haddreck,” 41, was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $400 in special assessments to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.

A federal grand jury indicted Kubica for the charges in March 2023. He pleaded guilty on February 28, 2025.

Starting no later than April 2021, Kubica created, organized, and maintained an illegal sex trafficking operation using multiple women in and around Rapid City. Kubica recruited women to engage in sex acts for money, which he then used to fuel his own fentanyl addiction. Kubica used multiple means of coercion and force to traffic the women. He committed acts of physical and sexual assaults and threatened to further assault the women if they tried to get out of the trafficking ring. Kubica supplied money, drugs, and alcohol to one victim to keep her engaged in trafficking even when he knew she was addicted to those substances. He also strangled and threatened to kill a victim and her 14-year-old sister and sexually assaulted another woman to get her to continue working for him. Between January 2022 and October 2023, Kubica used the currency exchange platform CashApp to conduct financial transactions related to his illegal sex trafficking operation. He would receive payments via CashApp from either the men who purchased sex with the sex trafficking victims, or from the victims themselves after they had engaged in sexual activity with the men.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Homeland Security Investigations, Box Elder Police Department, Rapid City Police Department, Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, and South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Knox prosecuted the case.

Kubica was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.