The feds say a convicted sex trafficker from Mattapan tried to get a woman he exposed himself to detained by immigration enforcement so she couldn’t testify against him.
Mark Pinnock, 32, of Mattapan, pleaded guilty to one count of witness intimidation on Wednesday in federal court in Boston. He could be sentenced up to 20 years in prison for the charge. His sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 5.
“Let the cleaning lady know” she would be arrested by ICE if she were to go to court, Pinnock wrote to the security officer of a Brockton condo building last November, days before she was set to testify against him.
The message was sent over an encrypted platform on a phone handed to the guard by a co-conspirator, who the feds say Pinnock directed to the location to intimidate the witness on his behalf.
Pinnock was convicted to eight years in prison for sex trafficking in 2014 and had only recently been let out on probation for that when he got a job as an Amazon delivery driver. While delivering a package to the Brockton building in July 2022, he allegedly exposed his genitalia to the woman threatened in the above quotation.
To make good on the threat, according to the document filed in the federal complaint, Pinnock allegedly placed three phone calls to ICE to have the woman detained and said things like he had heard she was affiliated with a gang.