DATE: October 20, 2025

CASE: James Edward Floyd (Case #24FE004646)

PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney Courtney Martin

On October 17, 2025, the Honorable Jerome Price sentenced James Edward Floyd to 45 years and 8 months to life in prison. On November 25, 2024, a jury convicted Floyd of persuading a minor to engage in commercial sex act and the allegation that Floyd used force, fear, fraud, deceit, coercion, violence, duress, menace, and/or threat of injury in the commission of the offense. Floyd was also convicted of pimping a minor over 16 years old, two counts of deriving support from proceeds of person’s prostitution and two counts of pandering by encouraging.  The jury also found true that Floyd suffered two prior strikes for first-degree burglary. The judge struck one of the prior strikes.

In January 2024, a detective with the Sacramento Police Department’s Human Trafficking Unit was engaged in proactive efforts to identify and investigate human trafficking of minors. The detective located digital evidence suggesting that Floyd had trafficked a 17-year-old girl he met online. When the detective interviewed the victim, she reported that Floyd sexually exploited her by posting online prostitution ads featuring photographs of her, transporting her to and from acts of commercial sex and giving her directions regarding prostitution. The victim gave Floyd the money that she made. On at least one occasion, the victim tried to leave but Floyd forcibly kept her in a house and continued to put her out on the street to engage in prostitution. It was also found that Floyd had previously sexually exploited two other victims.