Quinton Brown, 30, was charged with sex trafficking and pimping in three southwestern states on Thursday

Two men have been arrested and a woman is at large after allegedly pimping out eight teenage girls in a sex trafficking ring that sprawled across three states.

California residents Quinton Brown, 30, and Gerald Lavell Turner, 32, were charged with pimping 13 female victims, including eight minors, for commercial sex work.

Along with Mia McNeil, 32, who is still at large, the three suspects face a total of 54 charges that include sex trafficking, pimping and identity theft, authorities said on Thursday.

The ring was busted six months after the initial probe was launched as investigators claim the three operated 16 brothel sites across California, Nevada and Texas.

Among the victims were eight young women between the ages of 15 and 17 years old. The five other victims were between the ages of 18 and 21.

Brown faces the most charges with 41 criminal counts, while Turner has six counts and McNeil has 12, reported Fox 11.

Gerald Lavell Turner, 32, (left) and Mia McNeil, 32, (right) are also accused of being part of the massive ring that had 13 female victims, including eight minors. Turner is in custody while McNeil is at large

According to California's Attorney General's Office, the suspects rang their ring in 'plain sight', using social media to lure the young women away from home and then used the same sites to sell them.

Brown is accused of luring a majority of the victims from the Central Valley and trafficked them throughout the state, primarily in the Los Angeles area as well as in Las Vegas and Texas, reported NBC 7.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said in a news conference: 'Years ago, a human trafficking case of this magnitude was not likely.

'We knew the more we looked, the more we would find.'

McDonnell was joined by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, and said the trio 'sought to exploit children while defrauding their victims and other unsuspecting people.'

Authorities say McNeil used stolen identities to rent apartments across California that were used as brothels and purchased luxury cars that were used to transport the victims

Investigators launched a probe in December after Los Angeles County deputies were called to an apartment in West Hollywood to follow up on a missing person report filed in Tulare County, McDonnell said.

The deputies found the missing teenage girl and two other adults in the apartment and later learned the apartment was being used as part of the human trafficking that included the victims.

Human trafficking has become 'one of the fastest-growing criminal enterprises worldwide,' Becerra said.

Authorities said McNeil used stolen identities to rent apartments across California that were used as brothels and purchased luxury cars that were used to transport the victims throughout California and to Las Vegas, Nevada and Texas.