Queens man transported prostitutes to hundreds of clients in small upstate N.Y. village: feds

A longtime driver for a Queens prostitution ring who was busted by the FBI Wednesday had nearly 400 clients listed on his phone — all residents of one upstate New York village with a population of just 2,400, federal prosecutors said.

Teodoro Rojas Lopez had 383 contacts for Johns living in Brewster, located in Putnam County about 50 miles northeast of New York City, according to a criminal complaint.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors said Rojas Lopez was a driver and coordinator for a large-scale ring operating out of Queens that supplied Mexican and Latin American women mostly to clients in Brewster, which has a large Hispanic population.

Rojas Lopez used his cellphone to set up dates through text messages with clients, provide details on the women he was transporting and the cost of their services — usually $100 for a half-hour, the complaint said.

Rojas Lopez worked for the ring for seven years and had thousands of texts messages with alleged clients on his phone, feds said.

“Who are you bringing,” asked one of Rojas Lopez’s contacts via text on May 28, 2020, according to the complaint.

“A big a— very nice,” Rojas Lopez responded.

Rojas Lopez was previously arrested in February 2018 with two women in the back of his car in Carmel, N.Y., and admitted to cops that he had taken them to 12 separate appointments that day, according to prosecutors.

After serving less than a year in jail, Rojas Lopez began working as a driver again for the ring, which was under investigation by the FBI, the complaint said.

The feds surveilled him for months in the spring of 2020, and saw him in Brewster on numerous occasions dropping off and later picking up unidentified women from the homes of alleged customers, authorities said.

Rojas Lopez was charged with using a cellphone to promote prostitution. No other members of the ring were immediately arrested.