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4/4/2010 9:25 PM
A Gaithersburg man accused of coercing minors to have sex for money, drugging them and threatening them with firearms, could spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted by a federal jury March 24.
Between April and May of 2007, Lloyd Mack Royal, 29, drove underage girls to hotels in Gaithersburg and Washington, D.C. to have sex with paying clients, Marcia Murphy, spokeswoman for the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, said last week.
During his two week trial, witnesses testified that Royal and his two co-defendants – who both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking— gave the girls cocaine, cigarettes dipped in PCP, alcohol and marijuana before getting them to have sex with customers.
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