SAN ANTONIO – A 27-year-old admitted prostitute testified that Glen Dukes invited her to join his "family" in the fall of 2011, promising her food, clothing, a place to live and drugs.
Wearing a gray prison uniform, the woman, who is serving time on prostitution charges, said that she was working on the streets of south and east San Antonio as a prostitute to support her crack cocaine and heroin habits.
She said she soon realized that the family Dukes referred to was several prostitutes who worked for him out of a home on Martin Luther King Drive. And that he was what prosecutors called a pimp.
"What were you supposed to do?" asked prosecutor Kirstin Melton.
"Make money," the woman testified.
Dukes is accused of acting as a pimp for five women living in the home. The women would turn tricks at the home, she said, and Dukes would force them to turn over the money to him.
The woman said a police raid at the home led to her arrest.
"The cops came and there was a lot of noise like a cannon," she said. "It was a loud boom."
If he is convicted, Dukes is facing a punishment range of 25 years to life in prison. He is also facing capital murder charges in the death of a prostitute. No trial date has been set in that case.
Testimony in the human sex trafficking trial will resume on Thursday in Judge Ron Rangel's 379th District Court.