A federal jury found a Delaware man guilty Friday of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, the trafficking of two women, and interstate prostitution in the first jury verdict resulting from the investigation that shuttered the infamous Sayville Motor Lodge in 2022.

The jury of seven women and five men reached a split verdict to convict Michael Johnson on four charges, acquitting him of one charge of sex trafficking, after more than two full days of deliberations before U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert at the Eastern District courthouse in Central Islip.

Johnson, 36, of Selbyville, Delaware, was indicted in the sex trafficking conspiracy along with another alleged trafficker and the motel’s owners and staff in November 2022 when prosecutors announced an investigation revealed motel owne

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