A sex offender CEO of a private jet company pimped out girls — some as young as 12 years old — across New York City by urging his lecherous clients to ply the victims with booze and marijuana to “make them more cooperative,” prosecutors said.

Accused sex trafficker Paul Alexander, 57, was thrown in handcuffs on Thursday when he struck a deal with the wrong client — an undercover cop, authorities said.

Investigators had been tracking the Bronx man since March when a teen girl came forward and said he had sex trafficked her and other girls, authorities said.

The state Attorney General’s Organized Crime Task Force and the NYPD’s Human Trafficking Squad immediately launched an investigation, which they dubbed “Operation Mile High” after learning Alexander was listed as the CEO of Central Jet Charter, a private aircraft charter company.

He was arrested in the Bronx after he offered up a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl to the undercover officer for $100 each — or $300 for both — authorities said.

During the sit down, Alexander showed the cop naked pictures of the girls and called the children on the phone for a brief meet-and-greet, officials said.

Alexander was charged with sex trafficking of a child, attempted sex trafficking, endangering the welfare of a child and prostitution. He was ordered held without bail at a Bronx Criminal Court arraignment Friday.

Central Jet Charter did not immediately return a request for comment.

The arrest marks the first time that the state Attorney General has charged someone under the new child sex trafficking law which was signed by Gov. Cuomo last year.

The law eliminates the need to prove force, fraud or coercion where a child under 18 is trafficked, and strengthens prosecutors’ ability to hold sex traffickers accountable.

“There is nothing more reprehensible than sexually exploiting a child,” James said in a statement Saturday. “This individual’s alleged actions jeopardized the health and safety of our children and highlighted the critical need for these new protections that strengthen our ability to hold perpetrators accountable for these gross violations of the law.”

Through the use of hidden recording devices, social media searches and undercover operatives, detectives were able to prove that Alexander had moved his girls around the five boroughs for sex, officials said.

The AG’s office said there was no current evidence that the airline CEO used his planes to traffic girls outside the city.

“The NYPD will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to eradicate the trafficking of children in our city and work to bring justice to victims of these heinous crimes,” NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.

Alexander was added to the state’s Sex Offender Registry after he was sentenced to a year in prison in 2003 for kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl in Yonkers and for possessing child porn, public records show.

He also did stints in prison for sex abuse in 1992 and for bribery in 2008, court records show.

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