El Cajon man convicted – attempted to lure, coerce victims into prostitution, including teen girl

One of the two vehicles mentioned to have been driven by Steven Terrell Lewis convicted in a sex trafficking occurrence Agents suspect he approached more casualties Photo courtesy of U S Attorney s Office An El Cajon man has been convicted of attempting to recruit a teen girl and a woman into prostitution in East and South County agents commented Steven Terrell Lewis drove up to the girl aged in April while she was walking to a friend s home in El Cajon according to the U S Attorney s Office He used his car to block her way then grabbed her cellphone in order to get her number prosecutors revealed Once he began texting her he sent a sexually explicit picture while identifying himself as Pimpin Lewis tried to convince her to work as a prostitute but the girl explained a coach at her high school and El Cajon police along with Sheriff s deputies were notified One week later prosecutors say Lewis contacted a -year-old woman through a personals website and directed her to work as a prostitute in the South Bay However she was picked up by an undercover National City police officer who posed as a foreseen client The U S Attorney s Office revealed the woman was able to leave prostitution but Lewis continued sending her threatening messages in order to get her to resume working for him One of this text messages to her stated run me a few bread or I m pulling up on u when u least expect it Another mentioned I can invariably find u Administration arrested Lewis on May They suspect Lewis has attempted to solicit other casualties into prostitution Prosecutors cited a picture revealed on his phone of a handwritten note It read If I find out one more time that this car is following my daughter down Graves Ave we will have a issue The U S Attorney s Office reported Lewis was known to drive a white four-door Oldsmobile with California license plate number TIF and a brown or beige four-door Chevrolet with California license plate number REC Lewis is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug The attempted coercion enticement of a minor count carries a mandatory minimum sentence of years The attempted sex trafficking by force coercion charge has a -year mandatory minimum term Anyone who believes they or someone they know had an encounter with him or knows the author of the note about the child being followed was questioned to call the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force at - - - or text