A violent migrant pimp was convicted of forcing a Long Island sex worker into sleazy hotel rendezvouses by beating her up and plying her with crack and heroin.

Barbados citizen Michael Howell, 65, advertised the unidentified woman’s services online from April 2023 through February 2024 and then pocketed all the cash from the meetups in Suffolk and Nassau counties, authorities said.

“Michael Howell preyed upon his victim by using crack, heroin and violence to maintain control over her in order to profit from her exploitation,” Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney said after the pimp was found guilty Tuesday in Suffolk County Supreme Court. 3

Howell, who lived in Brooklyn, would become violent when the woman resisted — and he once slammed her head into a wall, prosecutors said

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