Two Miami men will spend the rest of their lives behind bars for sex trafficking, after they lured unsuspecting women to South Florida, slipped them drugs, taped them performing sex acts and sold the images to pornographers.

Former Miami Beach Police officer Lavont Flanders Jr., 41, of Miami Gardens, and Emerson Callum, 45, of Miami were sentenced Friday to 12 consecutive life terms by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore.

“The multiple life sentences imposed by the court are warranted punishment for the cruelty and depravity with which these defendants treated their young victims,’’ U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer said in a statement. “We are hopeful that today’s sentences will bring some closure to the victims.”

Five of the victims appeared at the sentencing hearing, and four spoke, describing how their lives were traumatized by what happened.

From 2006 to 2011, the men lured women from around the country by giving them high hopes of becoming models in South Florida, prosecutors said.

Flanders claimed to be a talent scout for companies such as Bacardi, Sony and Paramount Pictures, and asked the women to audition for commercials that were fake.

During the auditions, he would ask them to drink and promote different brands of alcohol. But the drinks were laced with date-rape drugs, prosecutors said.

After the drugs took effect, Flanders drove the victims to a Miramar warehouse where Callum would have sex with them while Flanders filmed.

The duo edited, produced and sold sex videos of the acts over the Internet to private buyers and pornography stores and businesses country-wide. Investigators said the women were never paid.

Flanders was a Beach cop and also worked at the Department of Homeland Security and the Opa-locka Police Department. He was also a Miami-Dade Transit bus driver.

In 2007, the state charged both men with similar crimes. Those charges were dropped and re-filed in the federal system.

“We are pleased that the judge sent a clear message to these two evil predators who committed these heinous acts,’’ John V. Gillies, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Miami, said in a statement.

“We will continue to work with all our law enforcement partners to identify, investigate and prosecute all predators operating in South Florida.”