Media release
OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 13, 2026) – Three individuals are facing felony charges in two separate human trafficking cases after Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Multi-County Grand Jury indicted them on multiple counts this week. These indictments follow investigations by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) Human Trafficking Unit and the Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD) Vice Unit.
Charquion Pope, an inmate at Mack Alford Correctional Center, is accused of orchestrating a human trafficking operation from inside prison walls.
Beginning in February 2025, the OBN Human Trafficking Unit launched an investigation into Pope after learning he maintained multiple social media accounts identifying himself as a “pimp” and listing his phone number in commercial sex advertisements. During a Victim Recovery Operation conducted that same month, agents identified communications between Pope and a victim indicating that he was advertising the victim for commercial sex, communicating with commercial sex buyers, scheduling sex acts and collecting money from the victim.
Agents were able to corroborate key details of the investigation with documentation from the Department of Corrections. Allegedly, Pope operated the trafficking enterprise using multiple contraband cell phones while incarcerated.
In a separate case, Alaze Grant and Danasia Turner are accused of trafficking a victim for commercial sex in Oklahoma City.
In early January 2026, OCPD Vice officers responded to a residence where they encountered a victim along with Grant and Turner. Allegedly, Grant and Turner advertised the victim for commercial sex, scheduled sex appointments, coerced the victim into engaging in commercial sex acts and collected money from customers.
“Human trafficking is exploitation in its most calculated and predatory form,” Drummond said. “Whether operating from a prison cell or a neighborhood residence, those who manipulate and profit from vulnerable individuals will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Every person arrested or charged is presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law. Read the indictments here and here.
