September 20, 2026 – LOS ANGELES, CA – A Riverside County man was sentenced on Friday to 262 months in federal 
prison for sex trafficking two minors throughout Los Angeles County, including on the Figueroa Corridor in South Los Angeles, an area of the city notorious for sex trafficking, including of minors.
Christian Brandon O’Neal Scurlock, 23, of Moreno Valley, was sentenced by United States District Judge Wesley L. Hsu, who also ordered him to pay $159,246 in restitution and placed him on lifetime supervised release.
Scurlock has been in federal custody since August 2024. He pleaded guilty in July 2025 to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
According to his plea agreement, Scurlock recruited two minor victims (ages 13 and 16) to engage in commercial sex work, including on the Figueroa Corridor in South Los Angeles – a 3.5-mile stretch of Figueroa Street spanning from Gage Avenue down to Imperial Highway, which Scurlock knew was patronized by commercial sex workers and customers.
Among other steps taken to maintain the victims in commercial sex work, Scurlock told them how much to charge for commercial sex acts, bought them clothes to wear when soliciting customers, brought the minor victims to popular areas for soliciting customers, collected and controlled the victims’ money, and provided the victims with smartphones to communicate with him. Scurlock exerted undue influence over his victims by controlling their finances, housing, transportation, and food and by supplying them with marijuana and alcohol.
Scurlock recruited one of the minor victims when she was 13 years old after she ran away from a group home. In addition to maintaining her for commercial sex work, Scurlock also admitted to having illicit sexual intercourse with her.
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In April 2024, Scurlock transported the minor victims from Los Angeles County to a motel in Las Vegas so that they could engage in commercial sex work. He was found and arrested by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department with the two minor victims in his car, as well as $985 in cash and condoms.
The FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department investigated this matter.
Assistant United States Attorneys Kelsey A. Stimson of the General Crimes Section and Danbee C. Kim of the Environmental Crimes and Consumer Protection Section prosecuted this case.
Source: DOJ Release
