Women held hostage as sex slaves, police say

They didn’t get fed unless they turned tricks.

Sometimes they were deprived of sleep, food and the drugs they were strung out on.

Their captor, they told police, kept an eye on them via a surveillance camera that he watched on his cellphone.

After a monthslong investigation, Palm Beach County sheriff ’s deputies rescued four

women who say they were forced into prostitution and held in a Lake Worth house with a padlocked front door.

Arrested Tuesday on a slew of charges, including armed human trafficking, were Demetrius Wells, aka Jive, 32, Floyd Lopez, aka Fish Grease, 35, and Nikolas Sukie, aka Nephew, 19, records show.

Lantana police began the investigation in October after a tipster reported a big man with a gun wrapped in a bag was waiting outside a room at a Super 8 motel on Hypoluxo Road, according to arrest reports.

One woman said she met Lopez and Wells when they approached her on the street and asked if she needed a place to stay. She did. And she accepted.

She was promptly set up for a sex “date” and told “you can’t stay here for free.”

Another one of the women said she met Wells at a Checkers fastfood restaurant when he asked if she needed anything. She did. And she accepted.

“She would not have to pay for anything,” Wells told her. After giving her drugs, he changed his tune. “Nothing in life is free,” she was told.

She had sex with about five men a day, seven days a week, according to a police report. She was compensated each time with a single piece of crack cocaine and a dime-bag of heroin.

A third woman told police she had sex for money, at the behest of the suspects, with 50 to 60 men from Broward County up to Jupiter.

“[The women] had to engage in sexual intercourse on a daily basis in order to obtain their basic needs such as food and a place to stay,” an arrest report said.

The women’s services were advertised on Backpage.com. They were shuttled to and from their “dates” in a gold Cadillac, reports said.

Another woman was in jail when she reported that the same suspects promised her a place to stay, food and cash in exchange for sex at the house in the Seminole Manors neighborhood in Lake Worth.

She was marketed as “Lulu” and had to have sex with a minimum of two to three men a day. “Lopez would not feed her until she would arrange a date with a male,” the report said.

All three men were jailed Tuesday in Palm Beach County on numerous charges, including sexual battery, false imprisonment and maintaining a house of prostitution.