Judge Trish Rose issued her decision on whether a defense motion should be granted for a former bonding agent charged with human trafficking and rape. The defense attorney for Dwight Jurgens believes the charges should be dismissed, but Judge Rose keeping in line with an earlier ruling by Judge Joe McCarville denied the request. .
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 allege that they were threatened with being taken back to jail if they didn’t agree to have sex with him.
The trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday, but that was pushed back to November 5, after the defense indicated they needed more time to review recorded jail house conversations between the alleged victims and Jurgens.