A Washington man charged early this year with Human Trafficking and Sexual Servitude of a Minor after being arrested at Little America on I-80 in Sweetwater County has been sentenced to federal prison. 63-year-old David Peter Vier was arrested
on January 20th
after deputies responded to a call of two girls hiding from a man in the restaurant of Little America Hotel. Deputies located the two girls, ages 12 and 14, as well as Vier, who was the man the girls were hiding from. According to court documents, “Vier told the girls that when they got to the motel he was going to have sex with them. [The girls] conversed and agreed that they had to run…When the girls escaped from Vier at Little America, they took his cellular phone with them to call for help.” A search warrant of Vier’s pickup recovered “multiple restraint items, including handcuffs, soft restraints, tape, rope, mouth gags, whips, [and] clamps.” They also recovered a hypnotic tranquilizer and intravenous Benadryl. Vier was sentenced this week to 15 years in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release.
