pressofatlanticcity.com – A man in state prison on other charges pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to transporting minor girls across state lines to work for him as prostitutes in Atlantic City, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.

Javon “Teflon” Gordon, 28, who has lived in Atlantic City and Vineland, faces from 10 years to life in prison and as much as $250,000 in fines when he is sentenced Nov. 22, Fishman said.

Gordon admitted Thursday that he acted as a pimp for underage girls and adult women in a prostitution ring he ran in the Atlantic City area from September 2007 to July 2008, Fishman said. He admitted he controlled the females and required them to turn over the money they got for sex acts with customers.

Gordon admitted that he went to Philadelphia from Atlantic City to pick up a minor girl to work as a prostitute, and also took an adult woman and another minor from Boston to Atlantic City to engage in prostitution, Fishman said.

Gordon was indicted in October on eight charges, including running a child exploitation enterprise, sex trafficking of children, sexual exploitation of children, distribution and possession of child pornography and two counts of transportation of a minor to engage in prostitution. He pleaded guilty Thursday to just the transportation of minors counts.

According to the indictment, Gordon trained the women how to perform sex acts for money, how much to charge for which acts and the areas of Atlantic City where they were to find customers. He used the money they earned for hotel rooms, gambling in Atlantic City casinos and other items, the indictment alleged.

Gordon took digital photos of the girls naked, partially clothed and in suggestive poses and posted them on Craigslist and other websites in order to attract customers, Fishman said Thursday. He also used the Internet to solicit women to work for him.

A September 2008 sworn affidavit by FBI Special Agent Daniel A. Garrabrant provides insight as to how Gordon ran his operation.

Atlantic City police found a 17-year-old girl April 17, 2008, who said Gordon had assaulted her, and that she had worked as a prostitute for him for more than a month, Garrabrant said in his statement.

The girl told police she was living in Philadelphia and her family was having financial difficulties when she met a woman who called herself Kitty, and said she was 24 and working for Gordon, Garrabrant said. The woman advised the girl to come to Atlantic City with her, and in February 2008, the two of them took a cab to the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, where Gordon met them and paid the driver. Gordon took the girl back to Philadelphia by cab so she could pick up some clothes, and they returned to Atlantic City.

The girl told Gordon she was 19, but Gordon called her “Baby Girl” because she looked so young, Garrabrant said. He put her to work as a prostitute, and gave her two cell phones and instructions on performing the job, Garrabrant said. Gordon, Kitty and the 17-year-old also traveled to a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., where they stayed in a motel and solicited customers over the Internet, the agent said.

Kitty turned out to be Colleen Stapleton, 18, who had been reported missing from Colorado in June 2007, Garrabrant said.

In March 2008, the New Jersey State Police conducted part of an ongoing investigation in the Taj Mahal, and a female undercover officer was approached by a man, later identified as Gordon, who asked her to work for him, Garrabrant said. Gordon gave her a phone number to call if she was interested, Garrabrant said.

In July 2008, Absecon police went to the Superlodge motel following a report of another 17-year-old girl who had been reported missing from Lawrence, Mass., Garrabrant said in his statement. Police found the girl, who told them Gordon had forced her into prostitution, made her take a handful of pills and threatened her with a stun gun, the agent said. Police staked out the room, and Gordon, Stapleton and another man were arrested when they returned.

The girl told police that she and her 14-year-old sister traveled to Atlantic City in early July 2008 and got a room at the Superlodge. They met Stapleton, who arranged for them to meet Gordon in the Taj Mahal parking garage, Garrabrant said. Gordon came up behind the girl, forced her into a car, punched her and threatened to kill her if she didn’t work for him or tired to run away, Garrabrant said.

Gordon and Stapleton tried to force the 14-year-old to work as a prostitute, Garrabrant said. When the girl refused, Gordon assaulted her, the agent said. The child got away, went back to Massachusetts and told her mother where her older sister was. The mother then called police.

Gordon is currently in the Mid-State Correctional Facility serving a 4-year sentence for resisting arrest and eluding police in a motor vehicle in Essex County, according to the state Department of Corrections Web site. He was also sentenced to a one-year term in July 2009 for promoting prostitution in Atlantic County.

His attorney, Michael Riley of Mount Holly, could not be reached for comment Thursday evening.