CLEVELAND — A Euclid man has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in federal prison for sex trafficking crimes involving both a child and an adult woman.

Donte Cole, 40, pleaded guilty this past spring to charges of of sex trafficking of a child and coercing a woman into commercial sex. On Monday, U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman IV, of Western Pennsylvania, sentenced Cole to 150 months each for both of the offenses. The sentences will be served concurrently.

According to the Department of Justice, Cole admitted to transporting the minor and an adult from Ohio to a hotel in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, to engage in commercial sex.

"Investigators located condoms, lubrication, cleaning wipes, pregnancy tests, and only a few pieces of clothing in the room used by the minor and similar ite

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