Notable Individuals Arrested
| Person | Year | Decision | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Alamo | 2008 | Convicted | In September 2008, Alamo was arrested under the Mann Act He was subsequently convicted on 10 counts of interstate transportation of minors for illegal sexual purposes, rape, sexual assault, and contributing to the delinquency of minors. |
| Chuck Berry | 1962 | Convicted | In January 1962, Berry was sentenced to three years in prison for offences under the Mann Act when he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines. |
| Farley Drew Caminetti | 1913 | Convicted | He and Maury I. Diggs took their mistresses from Sacramento, California to Reno, Nevada. Their wives informed the police, and both men were arrested in Reno. The case, Caminetti v. United States, expanded Mann Act prosecutions from prostitution to non-commercial extramarital sex. |
| Charlie Chaplin | 1944 | Acquitted | Chaplin met Joan Barry, age 24, in 1941. He signed her to a $75-a-week contract for a film he was putting together, and she became his mistress. By the summer of 1942, Chaplin let her contract expire. To send her home, Chaplin paid her train fare to New York which led to his arrest. |
| Finis Dake | 1937 | Convicted | In 1937, he was convicted of violating the Mann Act by wilfully transporting 16-year-old Emma Barelli across the Wisconsin state line "for the purpose of debauchery and other immoral practices". The May 27, 1936, issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune reported that Dake registered at hotels in Waukegan, Bloomington, and East St. Louis with the girl under the name "Christian Anderson and wife". In order to avoid a jury trial and the possibility of being sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000, Dake pled guilty. Subsequently, he served six months in the House of Corrections in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Rex Ingram | 1949 | Convicted | Pleading guilty to the charge of transporting a teenage girl to New York for immoral purposes, he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. He served just ten months of his sentence, but the incident had a serious impact on his career for the next six years. |
| Jack Johnson | 1912 | Convicted | In October 1912, Johnson was arrested under the Mann Act. It is generally acknowledged that the arrest was racially motivated, and that the "prostitute" in question was indeed his girlfriend. and later, wife. A presidential pardon was requested in 2009. |
| Charles Manson | 1960 | Convicted | Manson took two prostitutes from California to New Mexico to work. |
| William I. Thomas | 1918 | Acquitted | Pioneering sociologist William I. Thomas's academic career at the University of Chicago was irreversibly damaged after he was arrested under the act when caught in the company of one Mrs. Granger, the wife of an army officer with the American forces in France. Thomas was acquitted at trial. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | 1926 | Charges dropped | In October 1926, Wright and Olga Lazovich Hinzenburg were accused of violating the Mann Act and he was arrested in Minnetonka, Minnesota. |
| Brian David Mitchell | 2010 | Convicted | Former street preacher and pedophile; convicted in 2010 of interstate kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines connection with the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart; currently serving a life sentence in federal prison. |
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