An indictment was unsealed at present in federal courtroom in Central Islip charging Narendarakuma Dadarwala, his spouse Shardaben Dadarwala, their son Jigar Dadarwala, Ashokbhai Patel, and Himanshu, Inc. d/b/a Sayville Motor Lodge with intercourse trafficking conspiracy. The Dadarwalas, Patel, and Himanshu, Inc. are additionally charged with managing a drug premises, and Narendarakuma Dadarwala is charged with distribution of proceeds of prostitution and narcotics companies. Patel was arrested yesterday in Nebraska and can be arraigned within the Jap District of New York at a later date. The opposite defendants had been arrested this morning and can be arraigned this afternoon earlier than United States Justice of the Peace Decide Lee G. Dunst. A fifth co-conspirator stays at massive.
Breon Peace, United States Lawyer for the Jap District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Cost, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Discipline Workplace (FBI), Rodney Okay. Harrison, Commissioner, Suffolk County Police Division (SCPD), and Raymond A. Tierney, Suffolk County District Lawyer, introduced the indictment and arrests.
“As alleged, the defendants made the Sayville Motor Lodge a money-making refuge for prostitution and narcotics trafficking, and a blight on the encompassing neighborhood,” acknowledged United States Lawyer Peace. “With these arrests, we ship a transparent message that our Workplace will prosecute those that use motels or every other venue as their base of operations for trafficking human beings and medicines.”
Mr. Peace additionally thanked america Marshal Service, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Workplace, the Nassau County District Lawyer’s Workplace, United States Customs and Border Safety, and Homeland Safety Investigations for his or her help.
“We allege the proprietor and workers of the Sayville Motor Lodge regarded the opposite means when pimps trafficked human beings of their resort. Extra egregiously, we allege they took cash from these pimps and drug sellers, who beat and abused the ladies concerned in entrance of them. Different resort homeowners who function in a similar way ought to take heed, we’ll maintain them accountable for his or her actions in permitting intercourse trafficking to happen of their institutions. We’re asking anybody who’s a sufferer of human trafficking, or believes they know of somebody who’s, to name us at 1-800-CALL-FBI,” acknowledged FBI Assistant Director-in-Cost Driscoll.
“From the skin, the Sayville Motor Lodge seemed to be a typical roadside motel, however in actuality, there was excess of simply in a single day stays occurring there,” acknowledged SCPD Commissioner Harrison. “The homeowners and workers facilitated intercourse trafficking and drug gross sales for monetary achieve on the expense of ladies, together with a minor. We are going to proceed to work with our regulation enforcement companions to cease those that exploit victims of human trafficking and can proceed to assist these victims obtain the companies they should get their lives again on observe.”
“These defendants are alleged to haven’t solely knowingly allowed legal conduct to run rampant on the Motor Inn for years, additionally they financially benefited from these identical unlawful actions immediately by kickbacks,” acknowledged District Lawyer Tierney. “Due to our partnership with U.S. Lawyer Breon Peace and the Suffolk County Police Division, this blight on the neighborhood will not be open for illicit enterprise.”
As set forth in courtroom filings, the Dadarwalas have owned and operated the Sayville Motor Lodge since roughly 1984. They reside and work on the motel. From 2017 to 2019, Ashokai Patel was employed and likewise lived there. The Dadarwalas and Patel facilitated the legal exercise on the Sayville Motor Lodge and profited from the prostitution and narcotics exercise that routinely occurred there. Particularly, the Dadarwalas and Patel conspired with traffickers. They exercised management over room leases and booked dates and set room charges for business intercourse. They had been conscious that girls engaged in prostitution, together with at the very least one minor trafficking sufferer. They warned traffickers and ladies engaged in prostitution when regulation enforcement was on the premises and noticed traffickers inflict bodily violence on their victims and prospects. Additionally they financially benefited from the business intercourse exercise on the Sayville Motor Lodge. The traffickers, intercourse employees, and drug sellers on the Sayville Motor Lodge continuously interacted with the workers and referred to as Narendarakuma Dadarwala “Dad” and “Pa” and Shardaben Dadarwala “Mother” and “Ma.”
From roughly 2014 till 2018, an unapprehended co-conspirator allegedly operated his intercourse trafficking enterprise out of the Sayville Motor Lodge, in coordination with the Dadarwalas and Patel. The co-conspirator trafficked a number of ladies out of the motel, together with a minor, and routinely subjected the ladies who labored for him to bodily violence. In furtherance of his operation, the co-conspirator saved the ladies who labored for him hooked on medication and launched them to prostitution in alternate for medication, posted adverts on the web and set charges for business intercourse acts, confiscated proceeds from prostitution, and mentally and bodily abused the ladies and minors who labored for him.
As well as, from 2014 to the current, the Dadarwalas, Patel, and Himanshu, Inc. profited from the narcotics trafficking that was carried out overtly on Sayville Motor Lodge property. The defendants allowed prospects to freely use medication, together with heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine, in plain view and in motel rooms. Very similar to the traffickers, drug sellers paid the Sayville defendants for the privilege of promoting medication on the Sayville Motor Lodge. Narendarakuma Dadarwala wired funds from the rental of rooms for prostitution and narcotics trafficking to his son and Patel.
Additional, as set forth within the indictment, the federal government is in search of to forfeit the Sayville Motor Lodge. To make sure the property is preserved for forfeiture, america has obtained an order restraining the defendants from transferring, encumbering or working the Sayville Motor Lodge in violation of regulation.
If convicted, the defendants every face a minimal of 15 years’ imprisonment and a most of life imprisonment on the intercourse trafficking cost. Jigar Dadarwala, Narendarakuma Dadarwala, Shardaben Dadarwala and Ashokai Patel resist 20 years for the managing a drug premises cost; and Narendarakuma Dadarwala faces as much as 5 years on distribution of proceeds of prostitution and narcotics companies cost.
The fees within the indictment are allegations, and the defendants are presumed harmless except and till confirmed responsible.
For those who had been a sufferer, please contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
The federal government’s case is being dealt with by the Workplace’s Civil Rights Part and Lengthy Island Legal Division. Assistant United States Attorneys Catherine M. Mirabile, Samantha S. Alessi and Particular Assistant United States Lawyer Vanessa McEvoy are in command of the prosecution. Assistant United States Lawyer Brian Morris of the Workplace’s Asset Restoration Part is dealing with forfeiture issues.
The Defendants:
JIGAR DADARWALA (often known as “Cobra”)
Age: 44
Sayville, New York
NARENDARAKUMA DADARWALA (often known as “Naren,” “Pa” and “Dad”)
Age: 76
Sayville, New York
SHARDABEN DADARWALA (often known as “Sharda,” “Ma” and “Mother”)
Age: 69
Sayville, New York
ASHOKBHAI PATEL, often known as “BG”
Age: 58
Omaha, Nebraska
HIMANSHU, INC. d/b/a Sayville Motor Lodge
E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 22-CR-22-CR-494 (JS)