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A 34-year-old pimp who ran a prostitution ring that traveled from Texas to Florida, Baltimore and Henrico County was found guilty Wednesday on two counts of receiving money from sex trafficking.

Edwin Guyton of Richmond, entered an Alford plea, acknowledging that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him but not admitting guilt, before Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Gary A. Hicks found him guilty. He is set to be sentenced Sept. 18.

Jabari Nkosi Whittington, 20, of Houston, was also found guilty of aiding prostitution, a misdemeanor, in back-to-back hearings. He pleaded no contest, and was sentenced to a year in jail with half of that time suspended.

Whittington was a “pimp-in-training” and “enamored with the lifestyle,” according to Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael Feinmel, who summarized the testimony that two women who worked for Guyton would have given had the cases gone to trial. But Feinmel said Whittington was more of an “errand boy.”

Both women, who are from Texas, traveled to Miami and then up the East Coast to Baltimore with Guyton and Whittington. They first visited Henrico County in March when police set up a date with one of the women who had been listed on a website frequently used for prostitution.