A 33-year-old Trinida­di­an na­tion­al and law­ful per­ma­nent Unit­ed States res­i­dent has plead­ed guilty to sex traf­fick­ing and ad­mit­ted to kid­nap­ping six ad­di­tion­al women.

A news ar­ti­cle by CMC stat­ed that the De­part­ment of Jus­tice (DOJ) said that, dur­ing a plea hear­ing, Chad Bar­clay ad­mit­ted that on Sep­tem­ber 13, 2022, he en­ticed a woman to his res­i­dence to en­gage in com­mer­cial sex, where he robbed and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed her.

As part of a plea agree­ment, Bar­clay “stip­u­lat­ed to kid­nap­ping six ad­di­tion­al women be­tween 2022 and 2023”, ac­cord­ing to the DOJ.

The de­part­ment said Bar­clay was charged in Au­gust 2023 in a 20-count su­per­sed­ing in­dict­ment in­volv­ing five vic­tims. The charges in­clud­ed in­ter­state pros­ti­tu­tion, Hobbs Act rob­bery, kid­nap­ping, ac­cess de­vice fraud, ag­gra­vat­ed iden­ti­ty theft, and wit­ness tam­per­ing and ob­struc­tion of an of­fi­cial pro­ceed­ing.

In May 2026, Bar­clay was charged with sex traf­fick­ing in­volv­ing one of the orig­i­nal five vic­tims, as well as in­ter­state pros­ti­tu­tion, Hobbs Act rob­bery, kid­nap­ping and oth­er re­lat­ed of­fences in­volv­ing two ad­di­tion­al vic­tims, in a sec­ond su­per­sed­ing in­dict­ment, the DOJ said.

Joseph No­cel­la Jr, US At­tor­ney for the East­ern Dis­trict of New York, de­scribed Bar­clay as “a dan­ger­ous preda­tor” who used force and in­tim­i­da­tion to sex­u­al­ly as­sault a vic­tim and ad­mit­ted to ad­di­tion­al con­duct, in­clud­ing kid­nap­ping six oth­er women.

The DOJ said Bar­clay faces a min­i­mum sen­tence of 15 years in prison.

The FBI New York Field Of­fice and the NYPD are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the case as part of the Child Ex­ploita­tion and Hu­man Traf­fick­ing Task Force, the DOJ said.