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Lockport Man Indicted On Drug And Sex Trafficking Charges

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York

CONTACT:      Barbara Burns
PHONE:         (716) 843-5817
FAX:            (716) 551-3051

BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 13-count superseding indictment charging Oliver Kimmons, 49, of Lockport, NY, with possession and distribution of heroin and fentanyl, maintaining a drug premises, and sex trafficking. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan A. Tokash, who is handling the case, stated that according to the superseding indictment, over the course of three years, the defendant solicited young, opiate-addicted women to have sex with paying customers. In exchange, Kimmons provided the victims with drugs. The defendant drove the victims to farms, dairies, and Indian Reservations in Western New York where they engaged in sex acts with paying customers. Kimmons collected the money from customers and then “paid” his victims in heroin. The defendant also had sex with the victims in exchange for drugs. 

Kimmons was initially indicted on drug charges in March 2016 and has been in custody since his arraignment on those charges. The defendant is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges included in the superseding indictment on March 23, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder.

The superseding indictment is the result of an investigation by the Niagara County Sherriff’s Office and the Niagara County Drug Task Force, under the direction of Sheriff James Voutour; the Erie County Sherriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Timothy Howard; the Lockport Police Department, under the direction of Chief Michael Niethe; the Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge James J. Hunt, New York Field Division; and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Acting Special Agent-in Charge Kevin Kelly. The investigative team included Investigator Michael A. Licinio of the Niagara County Sherriff’s Office; Investigator Kevin Newman and Officer Eric Herrington of the Niagara County Drug Task Force; Theresa Nietzel of the Erie County Sherriff’s Office; Captain Brian Wentland of the Lockport Police Department; Special Agent Shane Nastoff of the Drug Enforcement Administration; and Special Agent Nathan Spisak of Homeland Security Investigations.

The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.  

Updated March 22, 2017