How a home invasion and 911 call in North Miami led to a sex trafficking saga

When police arrived at a North Miami house after a woman’s frantic 911 call about armed men, they expected a robbery investigation. But it wasn’t just that.

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What unfolded in that rental home in July lifted the veil on a complicated plot involving human trafficking, abuse, drugs and prostitution, according to arrest reports.

The victim in the home invasion case was actually a newly turned 18-year-old whose pimps sent in home invaders to rob the man she was with at the time. She wasn’t in on the plot.

On July 9, armed, masked men broke into a house where the woman had been on a “date” with a man, police say. She ran into the street, called 911 and knocked on neighbors’ doors for help.

Police later discovered she was sent to the house by Brandon Marquez Flint, 33, and his girlfriend, Marianne Davilaluna, 26, for prostitution. The couple planned the robbery behind her back after finding out the man she was with kept drugs and cash in his home, police say.

A friend of Flint’s, Jamarcus Brooks, 27, also took part in the robbery, court records show. Brooks rushed inside the home with a gun.

“Give me the money and the weed or I shoot you and that white b—-,” Brooks told the man, who is paralyzed from the waist down and relies on a motorized scooter, according to Brooks’ arrest affidavit.

Brooks pushed the man out of the scooter and used a USB cable to tie his hands as he ransacked his room. He took $2,000. Brooks ran out the back door as police pulled up.

Flint and Daviluna later picked him up nearby, he told police.

Officers found texts on Brooks’ phone between him and “Twin Twin,” Brooks’ nickname for Flint, planning the robbery, according to his arrest affidavit.

The woman told police she later met back up with Flint, Davilaluna and Brooks after the home invasion. They called her “stupid, a snitch and insulted [her] for calling the police,” according to Flint’s arrest affidavit.

Brooks was arrested by officers the same day of the robbery, July 9. He faces charges including robbery/home invasion with a firearm, kidnapping with a weapon and aggravated battery. As of Friday, he remained at the Metro West Detention Center.

However, officers didn’t catch Flint until two months after the robbery, on Sept. 9. He was initially charged with armed robbery and home invasion, but that changed after authorities learned of the human trafficking plot he was involved in, court records show.

Davilaluna remains on the run, police said.

Discovery of human trafficking

The woman was used as a shield for the home invasion, and she told authorities on Monday that she was a victim of human trafficking since she was 16 years old, at the hands of Flint.

“The victim described her relationship with the defendant and co-defendant as a relationship based on control, force, fear, and coercion to have sex with multiple males in exchange for cash payments and/or cash app payments,” Flint’s arrest affidavit reads.

At 16, she had run away from home, and a “friend” of hers, identified as Amber, took her to a North Miami “Trap House,” known for drugs, prostitution and other illegal activities, police said.

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At the “Trap House,” she was led into a room by Flint, whom she just met. He held her down as he and two other men took turns raping her, she told officers. The sexual assault was recorded by Flint on a cellphone.

“The defendant told the victim, ‘Remember this every time you try to run your mouth,’” according to Flint’s arrest affidavit.

Flint raped her at least two more times, police say. Flint began to groom her, telling her she was attractive and that he liked her, before coercing her into prostitution while she was still 16, police say.

She began to meet with men for sex after Flint posted her photos on Mega Personals, an online platform often used to promote sex work.

She was forced to walk along Biscayne Boulevard at night and solicit men for sex. She had sex with an average of 6 to 10 men a day, seven days a week, she told police.

When she complained of vaginal pain, Flint gave her drugs — cocaine, molly and marijuana — to keep her “active and alert.”

She was forced to sell herself for $40 for half an hour, $100 for one hour, $200 for two and $300 for three hours, though she never saw any of the money. Flint watched her sexual “encounters” from a parked car, police say.

Fateful meeting of two women

This past summer, when she was 17 about to turn 18, she entered a “residential intensive treatment program,” which she was released from after turning 18 and placed into foster care, police say. Flint sent Davilaluna to pick her up, making this the first time the two women met, police say.

Davilaluna was nice at first, the woman told police, but after learning that Flint “had sex multiple times” with the woman, Davilaluna slapped her several times, police say. Davilaluna decided what she would wear and what pictures of her would be posted on Mega Personals.

Davilaluna drove her to sex calls, rented rooms for her to meet men, and collected payments. Davilaluna had told the woman to stop talking to the police about the home invasion, or someone would kill her. She also told her to stop cooperating with the investigation to help get Flint released.

Before Flint was arrested on Sept. 9 in the home invasion, the woman had told them she wanted to stop prostituting, for which she was beaten up and told she could not leave, authorities said. Davilaluna held her down as Flint burned her with a cigarette.

The woman eventually managed to get away from Davilaluna.

A plethora of additional charges dropped on Flint Wednesday over his involvement in the woman’s human trafficking:

Human trafficking of a person under 18 for commercial purposes; prostitution/deriving support from prostitution; sexual battery of a minor by an adult; sexual battery of a child using coercion; drug paraphernalia involving a minor; and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

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He remains locked up at Metro West Detention Center, jail records show.

Miami Herald staff writer Devoun Cetoute contributed to this report.

This story was originally published October 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM.