A former bonding agent charged with human trafficking was in court Monday for arraignment in the case where he entered “not guilty” pleas.
Dwight Jurgens is charged with four counts of aggravated human trafficking, two counts of attempting to commit aggravated human trafficking, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy. The human trafficking and aggravated counts are charged due to his authority of controlling persons because of his bonding business. He had worked for TNT bonding at the time of the initial arrest.
All four victims testified that they were threatened with being taken back to jail if they didn’t agree to have sex with him.
After he entered the not guilty pleas, Judge Trish Rose set a pre-trial hearing in the matter for June 28 at 3:30 p-m. Those hearings are usually set up to see if there are any plea deals in the works, or whether they need to set a motions deadline and actual trial date.