Jamika “Jae” Weese will serve five years in federal prison after running a prostitution ring from an Atlanta apartment and fraudulently obtaining nearly $70,000 in pandemic relief funds.
What It Means For You: Atlanta authorities have removed a sex trafficking operation from Buckhead, making the community safer while ensuring COVID relief funds go to legitimate businesses rather than criminal enterprises.
What Happened: Weese operated a brothel in Buckhead where she controlled women for commercial sex work, taking more than half their earnings and sometimes using physical abuse and gun threats to maintain control.
Between the Lines: Law enforcement caught Weese during a 2019 undercover operation before the Super Bowl, a time when sex trafficking typically increases in host cities.
- Weese transported women across state lines to Arizona, Colorado, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida for prostitution.
- After her initial arrest and release, she committed fraud by claiming to run a cosmetics company to secure pandemic relief loans.
The Sources: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, FBI Atlanta, Homeland Security Investigations, Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, and Gwinnett County Police Department.
B.T. Clark
B.T. Clark is an award-winning journalist and the Publisher of The Georgia Sun. He has 25 years of experience in journalism and served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta for 15 years and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc. for 8 years. His work has appeared in several newspapers throughout the state including Neighbor Newspapers, The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal. He is a Georgia native and a fifth-generation Georgian.
