An Anchorage man has been charged with seven counts of sex trafficking in connection to what prosecutors are calling “a statewide prostitution enterprise.”
Terry Lee Keehn II, 42, was indicted Thursday by an Anchorage Grand Jury following a months-long investigation that began in October 2015 when the Alaska Bureau of Investifation received information from the FBI that there was a suspected sex trafficker operating out of Wasilla. The FBI provided the ABI with a telephone number of the suspect, which investigators found to be used by Keehn.
On Jan. 13, the ABI’s Special Crimes Investigation Unit made contact with Keehn in his vehicle near his Anchorage residence. Authorities had a warrant to search the residence, Keehn and his vehicle.
Charging documents say investiators seized 138 grams of methamphetamine and 14 grams of heroin. Keehn was then taken into custody and charged by the U.S. Attoreny’s Office in relation to the seized drugs.
Also seized were computers and cell phones.
“A forensic examination of those devices revealed a recording that Keehn had made of himself persuading a young woman to be trafficked in his prostitution enterprise,” charging documents say. “Keehn told the young woman ‘I have girls. I’m a pimp.’”
Keehn went on to say he had “an incall spot in Anchorage and Wasilla” — which charging documents note are “places of prostitution maintained by sex traffickers.” In the video, Keehn tells the woman she could make money in the Valley and Fairbanks.
“Evidence subsequently uncovered by SCIU indicates that Keehn was successful in his attempts to recruit and traffic the young woman in the video,” the indictment states.
Keehn faces three counts of second-degree sex trafficking and four counts of third-degree sex trafficking.
Charging documents reveal Keehn has no criminal history in Alaska but has extensive criminal history out of state.
