A Florida couple has been charged with human trafficking after they allegedly bonded three women out of jail in Marion County and forced them into prostitution.

The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, a multi-agency organization in central Florida, said it believe Joselito Martinez, 34, and Tanya Wurster, 30, may have more victims, WSVN reported.

Martinez and Wurster allegedly forced the women to engage in “commercial sex acts with customers” and made about $300,000 over the two years between 2019 and 2021.

The MBI said that the couple gave the women a place to live and that Martinez used “narcotics, threats of violence, and humiliating acts such as  shaving the victim’s head to control the victim.”

He forced two of the women to get tattoos to brand them as his property, investigators said.

Martinez and Wurster share a child who was present at the home where the prostitution took place.

Martinez was charged with three counts of human trafficking and was given a $45,000 bond, according to WKMG. Wurster faces three counts of deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution. Martinez was also charged with violating probation.

Martinez and Wurster were previously arrested in 2016 for their part in a fraud scheme against the state of Florida orchestrated by a former Department of Economic Opportunity employee, WPLG reported. According to jail records, Wurster served a year and six months on the charges. Martinez was released in 2019 and was on probation at the time of this arrest.

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[Featured image: Tanya Wurster and Joselito Gonzalez-Martinez/Orange County Jail]