Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the indictment of DEANNA DICASTRO, 39, and GILLIAM CORDERO, 38, for running a prostitution operation that involved sex trafficking a child and at least one gunpoint robbery. Intimate partners DICASTRO, a New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (“DOCCS”) employee, and CORDERO are charged with running the operation in Manhattan, the Bronx, and in the Rome and Utica, New York, areas between October 2025 and January 2026. They are charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with Sex Trafficking of a Child, Robbery in the First Degree, and Promoting Prostitution in the Third Degree.[1]
“As alleged, a DOCCS employee and her significant other ran a prostitution operation that spanned from Manhattan to upstate New York,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Disturbingly, that included the trafficking of at least one child. This investigation is active and ongoing. We urge anyone with information to call our Human Trafficking Unit at 212-335-3400.”
As alleged in court documents and statements made on the record in court, the defendants, who have been dating for at least four years, worked together to run a prostitution operation which involved sex trafficking a child and committing at least one gunpoint robbery.
On October 8, 2025, DICASTRO created an account with Megapersonals to post prostitution advertisements of various women and at least one underage girl. Both CORDERO and DICASTRO worked together to arrange prostitution encounters in hotels in Manhattan, as well as in the Bronx and upstate near DICASTRO’s home in Rome, New York.
The defendants used text messages to communicate with the women and girls, and on at least one occasion instructed a child to perform prostitution, including sending various men to her hotel room and ordering her to take certain amounts of money.
On November 16, 2025, DICASTRO identified a person for CORDERO to rob at gunpoint. After DICASTRO passed that person’s information to CORDERO, CORDERO robbed them at gunpoint, threatening to shoot them if they did not give him their belongings.
As further alleged, many of the financial proceeds passed through accounts controlled by DICASTRO, and a vehicle used by CORDERO to transport women and girls is registered to DICASTRO. As a licensed peace officer – a supervisor at DOCCS in charge of training other staff – DICASTRO was able to obtain a firearm license and has ten pistols registered in her name. The investigation conducted by the Office’s Human Trafficking Unit is ongoing. Please call our Human Trafficking Unit at 212-335-3400 with any information.
Assistant D.A.s John Fuller and Caroline Rowley are handling the prosecution of this case under the supervision of Assistant D.A.s Courtney Razner (Deputy Chief of the Human Trafficking Unit) and Jonathon Junig (Chief of the Human Trafficking Unit), and Executive Assistant D.A. Justin McNabney. Investigators Ariela DaSilva and Sean Ryan, and Investigative Analysts Margaret Murphy and Nina Huang, are assisting with the investigation. Human Trafficking Clinical Director Melissa Martinez provided invaluable clinical support.
District Attorney Bragg thanked Detective Harrison Graf of the NYPD 9th Precinct Detective Squad, and the Rome, New York Police Department, particularly Captain Alex Sypniewskia.
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[1] The charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. All factual recitations are derived from documents filed in court and statements made on the record in court.