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Texas Man Indicted for Sex Trafficking and Obstruction Offenses
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Press Release Texas Man Indicted for Sex Trafficking and Obstruction Offenses Thursday, November 5, 2026 Share
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A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas returned an eight-count superseding indictment charging Felix Omoruyi, 39, of DeSoto, Texas, with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, sex trafficking of a minor, and related charges.
According to court documents, from December 2007 through November 2025, Omoruyi compelled five adult women to perform commercial sex acts in Texas and elsewhere for his financial benefit. Omoruyi trafficked one of those women beginning when she was a minor. After he was arrested on the initial indictment in November 2025, he also corruptly attempted to destroy evidence and obstruct and interfere with his prosecution by contacting victims and witnesses to influence their statements and testimony.
Omoruyi is charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion; sex trafficking of a minor; attempt to destroy, alter, or conceal a document or object; and obstruction and interference with the enforcement of the sex trafficking statute. If convicted of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, he faces a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison along with mandatory restitution.
Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Ryan R. Raybould for the Northern District of Texas; and Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey A. Grimming of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New England made the announcement.
The HSI New England Field Office is investigating the case with assistance from HSI Dallas and the Barnstable Police Department.
Trial Attorney Matthew Thiman of the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandie Wade for the Northern District of Texas are prosecuting the case.
Anyone who has information about human trafficking should report that information to the National Human Trafficking Hotline toll-free at 1-888-373-7888, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For more information about human trafficking, please visit www.humantraffickinghotline.org. Information on the Department of Justice’s efforts to combat human trafficking can be found at www.justice.gov/humantrafficking.
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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