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Man gets 3 years in prison for pimping at Costa Mesa motel

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A Fresno man was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for pimping two women at a Costa Mesa motel, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

During a hearing in Orange County Superior Court, Kurtis Chappell, 23, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of pimping, two felony counts of pandering by procuring and one misdemeanor count of driving without a license, prosecutors said.

Chappell was accused of driving two women from Fresno to Costa Mesa with plans to have them work for him as prostitutes.

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Costa Mesa police arrested Chappell on July 26 after they arranged to meet one of the women, prosecutors said.

An officer posed as a customer and went into a room with both women at a motel on Harbor Boulevard, authorities said.

According to prosecutors, Chappell waited outside in a car until he thought the supposed customer had left.

Police arrested him at the motel and found “large quantities” of matching condoms in the room and in Chappell’s car, according to authorities.

Police also discovered text messages that appeared to show Chappell was pimping the two women, prosecutors said.

All the money the women made by selling sex was funneled to Chappell, who kept it for himself, according to prosecutors.

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