A Brooklyn man was convicted by a federal jury on Monday of participating in the murder of a rival pimp while sex trafficking women in East New York, according to federal prosecutors.
Omari Scott, also known as “Prince” and “Sir Prince,” was convicted of murder in the course of sex trafficking and the sex trafficking of Jane Doe 2.
Prior to trial, on May 16, 2025, the defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of the indictment, charging him with promoting prostitution and sex trafficking of Jane Doe 1. The charges relate to Scott’s trafficking of women at an open-air sex market along a stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn known as the “Penn Track.”
“The Penn Track has been a blight for too long and my office and our law enforcement partners are working diligently to prosecute violent sex traffickers who promote prostitution by exploiting vulnerable victims and endangering the entire community," Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement.
As proven at trial, Scott orchestrated and participated in the May 1, 2023 murder of rival pimp, Cleveland Clay, after a dispute over the control of a trafficking victim.
On April 2023, Scott learned that Jane Doe 2 was planning to leave him to work for Clay, who was also trafficking women on the Penn Track. On April 30, 2023, Scott found Jane Doe 2 on the Penn Track, grabbed her by the hair, dragged her in the street and threw her into his car. The next morning, Scott was captured on surveillance video engaged in a heated argument with Clay along the Penn Track.
Scott recruited Michael Simmons, another sex trafficker, to murder Clay, which Simmons carried out by shooting Clay multiple times at point blank range in a White Castle parking lot on the Penn Track. Simmons then returned to Scott, who had been waiting for him in a nearby laundromat parking lot, to report that the job was done. Clay succumbed to his wounds several hours later.
Simmons pleaded guilty in January 2025 to murder in the course of sex trafficking and sex trafficking of Jane Doe 2 and is awaiting sentencing.
When sentenced, Scott faces a mandatory minimum term of 15 years in prison and up to life in prison.
