Major sex-trafficking case could trigger investigations of North Carolina Marines

A Marine veteran turned drug-dealing sex trafficker already has been sent to prison but evidence from the investigation is headed to police agencies in and around Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, that could help identify his clients, both civilian and military.

On May 7, Jesse Gabriel Marks, 38, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for drugging and prostituting an estimated 300 women throughout two decades in Onslow County, North Carolina ― home to Camp Lejeune, one of the largest Marine Corps bases. “There is no excuse ever for one human being to try to entrap and own another human being,” Onslow County Sheriff Hans J. Miller said at a livestreamed Tuesday press conference. “This guy is no longer a Marine. He is an ex-Marine. I’m so glad he was taken off the street and I think our community is safer for it.”