OAKLAND, CA - A man in his twenties has been sentenced to seven years and four months after being arrested for more than two dozen crimes, including shooting a man in the neck during a gun battle and trafficking two women.
The offender, 23-year-old Emiaj Williams, was originally charged with a range of crimes in the Bay Area, including possessing stolen cars, resisting arrest, shooting into a vehicle, pimping, human trafficking, pandering, and leaving a gun where a young child could access it, The Mercury News reported.
He eventually pleaded no contest to two counts of pimping in exchange for a shorter prison sentence. Williams was detained while his case went through the system and racked up credit for more than half the sentence he was just given, once good behavior was factored in. He is currently incarcerated at a state prison in Jamestown, online records show.
Police began investigating Williams in 2024 after he was arrested for evading police in a stolen car in San Jose. After that, he was accused of shooting a bystander in the neck during a gunfight between two cars that traveled through East Oakland in the summer of 2024. When police arrested him at a hotel that October, they found evidence he had been trafficking an ex-girlfriend and another woman.
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