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   From: enabling.black.rapists@tim.walz   
      
   ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Marquet Johnson, a former private prisoner transport   
   guard who repeatedly sexually abused female pretrial detainees, was sentenced   
   to 30 years in prison for violating the civil rights of a woman he raped at   
   gunpoint during a 2019    
   prisoner transport between New Mexico and Colorado.   
      
   “A transportation officer, Marquett Johnson, had one job: to transport me   
   safely,” said the victim who asked to be identified only by her initials   
   T.P. in a statement read to the court. “Instead, the Defendant raped me,   
   forcing himself on me and    
   putting a gun to my face. He took what was not his to take, and I will never   
   be the same.”   
      
   Johnson, 44, of West Memphis, Arkansas, worked as a driver and guard for   
   Inmate Services Corp (ISC). He admitted in his plea deal to raping two other   
   women in addition to T.P. during prisoner transports.   
      
   Federal investigators identified a total of 15 victims – from multiple   
   states including Minnesota – Johnson subjected to various forms of sexual   
   assault.   
      
   Two of those women testified at his sentencing, and others including T.P. sent   
   in victim impact statements asking the court to impose the greatest sentence   
   possible.   
      
   “There is no sentence this court can give you that will erase the trauma   
   you’ve caused me,” wrote T.P., whose statement was read aloud by her   
   attorney.   
      
   “You violated the public trust with people who could not protect   
   themselves,” said Federal Judge Kea Riggs as she sentenced Johnson to the   
   maximum 30 years allowed under the plea agreement. “There is nothing   
   worse.”   
      
   I Don’t Want to Do This   
      
   Johnson came under investigation in 2019 when T.P.  was picked up at the Santa   
   Fe, New Mexico jail to be transported on a warrant to Delta County, Colorado.   
      
   According to court records, she was loaded into a white van that held three   
   male detainees.   
      
   About an hour into T.P.’s transport, the van stopped in Albuquerque to drop   
   off the three men leaving her alone with the guards.   
      
   A few minutes later, around 5:50 AM, the van stopped at a gas station with an   
   attached Carl’s Jr. restaurant.   
      
   The other guard went inside to buy breakfast and that’s when Johnson ordered   
   T.P. into the back row of the van and climbed in after her. He removed her   
   ankle restraints, loosened her handcuffs, leaving her belly chain in place.   
      
   T.P. told the guard that she was unsure what was going on, but that she did   
   not want “to do this.”   
      
   In response, Johnson pulled out a short black gun, rested it on his lap, and   
   told T.P. that he wanted her to cooperate, “otherwise, it was going to get   
   ugly.”   
      
   He then raped her while holding his gun against her cheek, she said.   
      
   Afterwards he ordered her to quickly pull up her pants. She was still doing so   
   when the other guard came back with the breakfast burritos.   
      
   The other guard got in the driver’s seat and Johnson stayed in the back row   
   with T.P.   
      
   In her statement to the court, T.P. wrote, “Please put yourself in my shoes.   
   My life flashed before my eyes. I felt a gun pressed to my head. There was a   
   heavy body on top of me penetrating me without my consent. On top of it all,   
   the Defendant had the    
   audacity to put a piece of paper in my back pocket and say, 'Here’s my   
   number. Call me when you get out.'"   
      
   When dropped off at the Delta County Colorado jail, T.P. told the booking   
   officer about the attack and requested a rape kit.   
      
   DNA from that rape kit was matched to Johnson after federal investigators   
   served a search warrant on him.   
      
   The FBI investigation would discover T.P. was far from being alone.   
      
   A History of Rape   
      
   When the FBI began investigating, they identified 14 other women with eerily   
   similar accounts to T.P. They revealed Johnson sexually assaulted them while   
   they were being transported on out-of-state warrants.   
      
   Six of those women said they were attacked after T.P. reported being raped by   
   Johnson.   
      
   When FBI agents served a search warrant on ISC headquarters in Arkansas they   
   discovered the company had received warning about Johnson’s behavior toward   
   female detainees prior to T.P.’s attack.   
      
      
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