CHICAGO | A Chicago man was charged Friday with a range of offenses relating to human trafficking for allegedly operating a prostitution ring in Chicago and suburban Cook County, forcing women to work as prostitutes, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's office announced.

Troy Bonaparte, 45, of the 8000 block of South Ridgeland, Chicago, is charged with the felony offenses of involuntary servitude (Class X felony); trafficking in persons for forced labor or services (Class 1 felony); unlawful restraint (Class 4 felony); pandering (Class 4 felony); and two counts of possession of a controlled substance (Class 4 felonies).

Bond was set Friday at $75,000 cash. His next court date is Sept. 9.

According to prosecutors, Bonaparte targeted and recruited three women in three different Chicago neighborhoods and the suburbs between May and August this year and put them to work prostituting themselves for his profit.

Bonaparte took sexually provocative photos of the three women and posted the pictures in Internet advertisements for escort services, prosecutors said.

Bonaparte, who had the women call him "Magnificent," would rent motel rooms at various locations in the city and surrounding suburbs where the women would live with him. The women would sometimes service eight to 12 customers per day, and Bonaparte gave them none of the proceeds, prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, Bonaparte used violence to control the women, beating one of them when she challenged him. Two of the women threatened to quit several times, but Bonaparte threatened to beat or kill them if they tried to leave. When one of the women's families attempted to intervene, he threatened to kill the family as well.

In some cases, if clients offered the women extra money, Bonaparte would order them to perform acts or services they were uncomfortable with, according to prosecutors.

Bonaparte's operation was uncovered earlier this week when one of the women was discovered by Cook County Sheriff's Police vice officers, who were working undercover to respond to one of Bonaparte's Internet ads at a motel in Elk Grove Village.

Bonaparte was taken into custody Tuesday after being caught in another motel room across the hall with a second woman. The third woman was located at another nearby motel.

All of the rooms were rented in Bonaparte's name, according to investigators. One of the women had been working for Bonaparte since May, the second had worked for him for approximately two weeks, and the third had worked for him for less than 24 hours.

Police recovered more than $2,700 in cash, six cameras and a laptop computer in his motel room, as well as small amounts of crack cocaine and heroin, which were locked in the motel room's safe, prosecutors said.

According to investigators, Bonaparte threw the safe key out of the motel window when police came to the door.

The case is being handled by the State's Attorney's Human Trafficking Initiative Unit.