EL CERRITO — It started with promises of $5,000 and new business opportunities, and ended with reports of a woman “crying hysterically” outside the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station, according to court records.

Now, the man who police say convinced a woman to fly to the Bay Area from Georgia in the hopes of getting into the auto business and becoming a “content model” for the adult subscription site Only Fans has been sentenced to two years in prison, court records show. The police investigation started on March 17, when someone called police from the BART station reporting a woman was crying and said she’d just been “forced to do something she did not want to do,” authorities said in court filings.

The woman told authorities that a man, later identified as 31-year-old JeanPierre Joseph,

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