MARTINEZ — In a long-anticipated verdict, a Bay Point man was convicted Tuesday of torture, aggravated mayhem, conspiracy, human trafficking, rape, and numerous pimping and pandering charges, but acquitted of kidnapping.

Furthermore, jurors hung on a murder charge against defendant Deandre Lewis, who had been charged with murdering a woman by allegedly coercing her to commit suicide. The woman was one of several in a sex trafficking ring that Lewis was running with co-defendant Rachel Elaine Smith, who took a plea deal before trial. The jury split 7-5, leaning toward guilt.

Lewis conferred with his attorney but did not visibly react as the verdict was read. His sentencing is set for early May, and he will most likely receive a life sentence.

The verdict announcement came weeks after Lewis granted a jail interview, in which he claimed that jail guards at the Martinez Detention Facility were using “remote neural monitoring” to “ping” his brain and “torture” him with random buzzing and verbal put-downs sent to his brain via radio waves. He said he’d conducted his own research on the matter while awaiting trial in jail, and that his attorney requested he undergo a mental health evaluation when he first raised the issue.

“I know I’m not crazy,” Lewis said in the late December interview, sitting on the other side of a window from a reporter in a jail visiting room. He called the practice “torture” and said that it was happening to him even as he testified during trial.

He also briefly discussed his case, saying he would “take responsibility” for the things he’d done wrong, but disputing several of the charges, including the alleged kidnapping victim, who he said had given multiple contradictory interviews with police.

The torture and mayhem charges stemmed from a shocking recorded jail call where Lewis ordered Smith to “make that (expletive) bald-headed,” referring to a woman who owed Lewis $1,800, and that Smith should make the woman think she was going to die but not kill her. Lewis testified during trial that he was angry at the woman for lying to him. Smith partially scalped her and cut her from head to toe, causing severe injuries that required hospitalization. The woman recounted the attack on the stand during trial.

The murder charge was filed for a 2012 shooting death at Lewis’ Bay Point residence that was ruled a suicide. The woman, who police describe as one of Lewis’ human trafficking victims, shot herself in the head, according to the coroner’s report. Prosecutors argued that Lewis had ordered her to do it, citing testimony from other women who say he made them put guns to their heads, but the defense argued it was a suicide that authorities were simply trumping up. The jury split 7-5 toward guilt on the murder charge. The District Attorney has not yet decided whether to retry Lewis on the murder charge.

Besides the sex trafficking, Lewis and Smith reportedly convinced a Concord man in his 80s that he was dating a sex worker, who later gained control of his finances. Additionally, Smith stole guns from a client in Brentwood who later testified he thought of her as a girlfriend.

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After reaching the verdict, jurors were instructed to return to the deliberation room and make a determination as to whether $25,000 in assets seized from Lewis were being used for criminal enterprise. If that verdict comes back in the affirmative, authorities will be able to take possession of the property.