Baltimore County Grand Jury Hands Down Sex-Trafficking Indictments in Separate Cases Involving Runaway Girls

A Baltimore County grand jury has returned sex-trafficking indictments in two separate cases involving vulnerable runaway girls who investigators say were advertised online for prostitution.

Airianna Yvonne Brown, 22, of Essex, is charged with four counts of sex trafficking, one count of prostitution, and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child, according to court records.

In charging documents, police allege Brown forced a girl—who was 15 at the time and had run away —to have sex with adult men for money as a condition of being allowed to live with her. The victim told police Brown advertised her online.

Brown denied the accusations and told investigators she felt bad for the girl and allowed her to stay at her home intermittently to keep her off the streets. She said she was “shocked by the allegation” and told police she always looked out for the girl, who lived with her and provided child care while Brown worked.

According to charging documents, the victim told police “things went downhill when Airanna lost her job.” The girl said Brown told her they needed to pay rent and that she would have to have sex with men if she wanted to stay in the house.

According to charging document, the girl agreed to have sex for money “because she had nowhere to go, and she was scared of Airianna.”

The girl told police the sexual encounters occurred at a home in the 1000 block of Elton Avenue in Dundalk, where she was forced to have sex an aver of five times per day.

A detective with Baltimore County Police Department found online advertisements for both the girl and Brown that listed a contact phone number associated with Brown, according to charging documents. The posts offered sex for money between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31, 2024.

Brown was indicted Dec. 22 and is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center.

In a separate case, Antione Miles, 57, was also indicted Dec. 22 on sex-trafficking charges following an undercover investigation that located a missing Cecil County girl at a motel in Towson.

Miles and Deion Taurence “Poppa Fettii” Philip, 33, both of Baltimore, were arrested in November. Philip is charged with nine counts of sex trafficking; Miles is charged with six counts of sex trafficking and one count of prostitution, according to court records.

The charges stem from an investigation in which a Baltimore County police officer working with a multi-agency task force discovered a teenage girl being prostituted at a Towson motel, according to law-enforcement and court records.

On Sept. 25, investigators with the Maryland State Police Child Exploitation Unit, the Maryland State Police Child Recovery Unit, and the Baltimore County Vice/Narcotics Unit were conducting undercover sex-trafficking operations in the Towson area.

An investigator responded to an online advertisement and arranged a meeting with a girl at a Comfort Inn. Once inside the room, the officer identified himself as a police officer. The girl later told officers she was from Cecil County and had run away from the Arrow Crossroads home for girls.

Officers, assisted by a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from the Child Exploitation/Human Trafficking Baltimore Field Office, searched the motel room and seized a cell phone.

The girl told investigators that after running away, she had stayed with ex-boyfriends and friends in Baltimore City before meeting a man who rented hotel rooms for her.

She told police she was walking near Greenmount Avenue in East Baltimore when a man she knew as “Tony” pulled alongside her in a white or silver vehicle, complimented her, and invited her inside.

Police later identified Miles as a suspect. Philip became a suspect after investigators examined the girl’s cell phone, according to charging documents.

Investigators believe Miles introduced the girl to Philip. The girl told police Philip placed the online ads and took the money she earned. She also said Philip eventually learned she was a missing minor and continued to traffic her.

Philip was arrested Nov. 4 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, by investigators with the Maryland State Police and the U.S. Marshals Service. Police said another missing girl believed to be a sex-trafficking victim was also located at the time of his arrest.

Miles was arrested two days later at an airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Police believe Miles and Philip may have trafficked additional women and urge any potential victims to contact Maryland State Police investigators at 410-694-4700.