A 50-year-old Beloit man accused of giving drugs to women and girls and pushing them into prostitution is convicted following a federal jury trial.

According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice Cory Hereford was found guilty Thursday of sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, maintaining a property for the purposes of distributing and using controlled substances, and of having committed sex trafficking of a minor while being a person previously convicted of a crime that required registering as a sex offender.

According to the criminal complaint Hereford gave his victims crack cocaine and heroin and eventually forced them into prostitution in order to pay him back.

Hereford is a registered sex offender from a 1994 conviction.

Hereford faces a minimum of 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced on May 12th.