Oakland man gets probation for pimping woman struggling to find housing

OAKLAND — A city resident has been sentenced to two years of probation for pimping a woman who testified she met the defendant on TikTok when she was living out of her car, and that he offered to let her live with him before recruiting her into prostitution, court records show.

Devontay Williams, 33, pleaded no contest to pimping and gun possession charges as part of a plea deal with Alameda County prosecutors. If he violates his probation, he could be sentenced up to six years and eight months in prison...