ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. -- The St. Joseph County Police Department reports officers responded to the Baymont Hotel in the 200 block of South Dixie Way in Roseland for a report of an unknown problem on Monday.

While officers were enroute, dispatch informed them a woman in the hotel lobby was crying and reported a man wouldn't let her leave.

A short time later, police were told the woman had returned to a room with said man.

Officers arrived and located the man, identified as 31-year-old Kevin Brazier, and the woman.

Police then spoke to the woman, who stated she was fine. Officers recognized something was wrong and separated the two.

Officers then had a private conversation with her. The woman told police she met Brazier on Facebook about a month ago and talked for a while before they met.

The woman, now identified as a victim, stated Brazier picked her up from out of town a week earlier and brought her to South Bend under the pretense that they'd be “making money together.”

Once in South Bend, Brazier allegedly made an online advertisement on a prostitution website and began bringing men to the hotel room.

The victim reported Brazier took her phone and wouldn't allow her to leave the room without him. Officers then detained Brazier and obtained and executed a search warrant for the hotel room.

Police say they located a firearm and a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana.

Brazier was arrested taken to the St. Joseph County Jail.

He has been formally charged with Criminal Confinement, Unlawful Possession of a firearm by a Serious Violent Felon, and Promoting Prostitution.

The case has been sent over to the St. Joseph County Special Victims Unit. It is also being investigated by SJCPD's federal partners.