MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A British national living in Miami Beach is facing multiple felony charges after an undercover human trafficking sting led to his arrest Tuesday, according to police.
According to an arrest report from the Miami Beach Police Department, Robert Brown, born in England, is accused of beating and trafficking a woman he met in March when he paid her for sex himself.
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He started living with her and “never left,” police said.
Police said they encountered the woman at an unspecified location after responding to an online prostitution advertisement.
The report states that the woman told detectives that Brown, 37, texted with clients and ensured they paid, at one point threatening to expose one to his family after canceling a Cash App payment for sex.
Brown was “physically violent” with the victim, according to police, and would “snap” any time he “felt disrespected.”
Authorities said the woman provided police with videos and photos of her injuries and said in one instance, Brown “chased her around the house with a large knife” and pushed her into a bathtub, where he punched her in the legs.
Police said she recorded an Aug. 23 incident in which Brown struck her in the face and called her a “fat c---” and a “f---ing b----,” telling her, “I will end you.”
The woman said she’s given Brown more than $14,000 of her earnings from prostitution dates.
When police took Brown into custody, they found his passport and three pipes with suspected crack cocaine residue in his bag, the report states. His statements to police were redacted from the arrest report.
Brown is facing six felonies: One count each of human trafficking, deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, along with three felony cocaine possession charges.
He’s also facing three misdemeanor battery charges.
A Miami-Dade judge ordered he be held without bond and Brown was jailed in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Wednesday afternoon.