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Mankato Free Press
April 28, 2018
Carter allegedly told an officer he took the glasses because the complainant could not produce the agreed upon $100 after they had sex. The complainant also reportedly admitted they had engaged in prostitution and told police Carter refused to take a check. The man has not been charged with a crime.
Corvallis Gazette Times
April 28, 2018
Three men arrested in February after responding to an online advertisement created by law enforcement inviting people to pay to have sex with a woman have entered guilty pleas, court records show. Kevin McLain Beaudoin, 51, of Albany, John Jerry De Jong, 70, of Corvallis, and Kevin Eugene Waite, 52,Ãâà...
Tampabay.com
April 27, 2018
BROOKSVILLE — Gov. Rick Scott suspended Hernando County Commissioner Nick Nicholson from his position on Thursday, a week after the 71-year-old commissioner was arrested on prostitution-related charges. Nicholson was arrested April 19 on charges of operating a location for the purpose ofÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
April 27, 2018
Columbus officials boarded up a Far North Side massage parlor Friday for running a house of prostitution. A complaint filed in Franklin County Environmental Court outlined the details of the case against East Wind Massage, 6815 Flags Center Drive, in a shopping plaza near Cleveland Avenue andÃâà...
NOLA.com
April 27, 2018
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Vice Squad investigators arrested an employee at a Metairie massage parlor accused of illegally offering erotic services with her massages. The 54-year-old woman was booked with prostitution by massage and practicing without a massage therapist license, according to anÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
April 27, 2018
Two Tri-State-area men were charged earlier this week during a prostitution sting in Hagerstown. ... 27, of Hagerstown, and Michael Patrick Raymond, 63, of Inwood, W.Va., were charged with one count each of general prostitution, according to a news release from the Hagerstown Police Department.
The Herald
April 27, 2018
Police in York County have charged five people with prostitution after a sting near a hotel on Carowinds Boulevard, according to police and jail records. Sheriff's deputies along with drug agents conducted the operation Thursday targeting meetings arranged on the Internet, said Trent Faris, spokesman forÃâà...
Mason City Globe Gazette
April 27, 2018
A Bettendorf attorney turned himself in this week after police say he exposed himself to a female client and placed her hand, without her permission, on his genitals to feel an implanted medical device in January. Police also say Stephen Warren Newport, 66, called the woman later that day and indicatedÃâà...
FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
April 27, 2018
SPRING HILL (FOX 13) - A Hernando County commissioner has been suspended by Governor Rick Scott following a prostitution scandal. The governor issued an executive order of suspension on Thursday for Nicholas Nicholson, who was arrested on April 19 and accused of paying women for sex andÃâà...
WTSP.com
April 27, 2018
Gov. Rick Scott has suspended Hernando County Commissioner Nicholas "Nick" Nicholson from office after his arrest on prostitution charges. The governor issued the suspension Thursday. “The charges against Mr. Nicholson are disturbing and unbecoming of someone who is supposed to serve theÃâà...
FOX13 Memphis
April 27, 2018
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Human trafficking is the second-fastest growing crime in the United States. A man is behind bars, indicted for kidnapping a teen runaway, raping her, and forcing her to work as a prostitute. Melvin Howard Williams, 32, was indicted on felony charges of rape and two counts of trafficking forÃâà...
CapitalGazette.com
April 27, 2018
Police arrested two women from New York Wednesday and charged them with prostitution and performing massage therapy without a license at a business in Linthicum. In a media release, Anne Arundel County Police said members of its Vice Unit received complaints about possible prostitution at theÃâà...
KFDM-TV News
April 27, 2018
Multiple agencies are trying to get to the bottom of what they suspect is prostitution happening at a spa in Beaumont. Beaumont Police they have been surveilling the "Tulip Spa," located in the 3300 block of Laurel, for more than a year. Thursday, officers executed an "evidentiary warrant" at that location. They pulled phoneÃâà...
HarpersBAZAAR.com
April 27, 2018
The results of the Prostitution Reform Act have been beneficial for sex workers. A study from the Christchurch School of Medicine found that “90 percent of sex workers believed the PRA gave them employment, legal and health and safety rights. A substantial 64 percent found it easier to refuse clients.
WGNO
April 26, 2018
SLIDELL, La. — The Slidell City Council has approved an immediate moratorium on new massage parlors, spas and salons in the city until local lawmakers can figure out possible new regulations after four recent prostitution arrests. The council introduced an ordinance for the moratorium that will be votedÃâà...
Estevan Mercury
April 26, 2018
Often messages that are posted online will mention escort services, he said, and will carry a message for potential clients. If the EPS does talk to someone involved with the sex trade as part of an investigation, then they will try to talk to that person in a setting in which the individual is alone, safe and secure,Ãâà...
Quad City Times
April 26, 2018
Bettendorf attorney charged with sex abuse, prostitution ... Newport, last known address in the 5600 block of Kerrs Lane, faces charges of third-degree sexual abuse, a Class C felony, prostitution, an aggravated misdemeanor, and indecent exposure, a serious misdemeanor. Court records show that aÃâà...
KOMO News
April 26, 2018
... arrange encounters for three women working as prostitutes. In March, detectives answered an online advertisement for one of the women, who told investigators he had been posting her ads for more than a year and that he had driven her to "dates" in exchange for $40 a ride. He's been charged with promoting prostitutionÃâà...
Tahlequah Daily Press
April 26, 2018
A registered sex offender from Park Hill was arrested April 24 after he allegedly entered a woman's apartment naked, requesting sexual favors. Tahlequah Police Department officers were dispatched to a Pamela Street apartment, where the victim reported Christopher W. Rotenberry, 34, had barged in,Ãâà...
San Bernardino County Sun
April 25, 2018
Two Colton residents who were arrested last week as part of a prostitution and human trafficking investigation in downtown San Bernardino were arraigned on felony charges Tuesday afternoon in San Bernardino Superior Court. A San Bernardino police detective saw a vehicle driven by Matthew FraiseÃâà...
Bakersfield Now
April 25, 2018
Several more massage businesses in Kern County have been closed after a sting to curb prostitution and human trafficking. The undercover operation was conducted Monday, Kern County Public Health Services said. Public Health Services, in partnership with the Kern County Sheriff's Office, hasÃâà...
Bay News 9
April 25, 2018
Commissioner Nick Nicholson was arrested on several prostitution charges last Thursday for allegedly paying for sex and allowing prostitution to occur in his home. Nicholson is currently out on bail. "It's a distraction for us, and it's an embarrassment for the county," Commission Chairman Steve ChampionÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 25, 2018
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Police have arrested more than 600 people in their drive against prostitution, illegal liquor and drugs in the capital. The drive was launched after an Islamabad High Court judge admonished the capital's police chief for reportedly not doing enough to control crime in the city.
KABC-TV
April 25, 2018
While speaking to all three people, officers determined the collision was an intentional act by Fraise and possibly related to ongoing prostitution in the area, according to a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Officers identified the juvenile as a possible victim of human trafficking.
CapitalGazette.com
April 25, 2018
Upon arriving, police said an undercover officer was offered sexual acts in exchange for money from Chanyapak Luangin, 37, and Sirakan Kavilo, 35, both of Hanover. The two were arrested and charged with four counts of prostitution. Neither had an attorney listed as representing them in online courtÃâà...
KWQC-TV6
April 25, 2018
BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) — KWQC TV-6 obtained a court filing against Bettendorf Attorney Stephen Warren Newport who is charged with sexual abuse, prostitution and indecent exposure. Court Documents state that the victim, a client being represented by Newport, was at Newport's office on JanuaryÃâà...
WBRZ
April 25, 2018
GONZALES- A woman is facing several drugs and prostitution charges after deputies searched her home Monday. Authorities suspected Kim Harris, 53, of dealing illegal drugs from her home. As the investigation continued, it was learned that Harris was also offering sex for money. Detectives locatedÃâà...
RT
April 25, 2018
The move to turn prostitution into a legal occupation was intended to safeguard sex workers' human rights, and to protect them from exploitation. Today, New Zealand is known for offering the best working conditions for prostitutes. Although an evaluation of the act's operation in 2008 demonstrated that theÃâà...
The Bakersfield Californian
April 25, 2018
Three people were cited — one at each parlor — for county ordinance violations, including exposing genital parts, touching genital parts and solicitation of prostitution. They are a 54-year-old woman from San Gabriel; a 59-year-old woman from Monterey Park; and a 60-year-old woman from Bakersfield.
The Advocate
April 25, 2018
The Slidell City Council voted Tuesday to put a moratorium on any new massage parlors, spas or salons in the city until Nov. 30, an action that City Administrator Tim Mathison said stemmed from recent prostitution arrests at three of those businesses. The stated purpose of the moratorium is to allow the cityÃâà...
FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
April 24, 2018
SPRING HILL (FOX 13) - The future of a Hernando County elected official accused of running a prostitution operation remains uncertain as a regularly-scheduled commission meeting will be held Tuesday morning. Governor Rick Scott said on Good Day Tampa Bay on Tuesday, that his office is reviewingÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 24, 2018
Flight records appear to have undermined Donald Trump's denials that he spent a night in the company of prostitutes in his Moscow hotel room. The US President twice gave James Comey an alibi for why salacious, yet unproven, reports about the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow couldn't be true:Ãâà...
ABC Action News
April 24, 2018
HERENANDO COUNTY, Fla — In the first county commission meeting since the arrest of a Hernando County Commissioner on charges involving prostitution, commissioners are calling the incident embarrassing for the county and want the commissioner removed from office. On Tuesday CommissionerÃâà...
SaharaReporters.com
April 24, 2018
The Kano State Hisbah Board said it received 50 cases bordering on prostitution and missing children in the last three weeks. The board Public Relations Officer, Mallam Umar Yahaya made this known to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Kano. Yahaya said that out of the number of cases,Ãâà...
Inquirer.net
April 23, 2018
The Laguna Regional Trial Court has convicted a woman of human trafficking for pimping minors for sexual services. In a decision made public on Monday, sentenced to suffer life imprisonment and a fine of P2 million was Lilibeth “Ate Joan” Oligo. Oligo was arrested in an entrapment operation in LagunaÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 23, 2018
A 62-year-old Virginia woman was arrested at a spa near Lake Bluff last week and charged with prostitution after she allegedly offered to perform a sexual act to an undercover officer in exchange for money. According to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, Sun Cha Chon of the 7200 block of Arley Place,Ãâà...
WJLA
April 23, 2018
According to police, an investigation began in April after they received reports of prostitution activity going on at an apartment in the 1600 block of Hardwick Court. During the investigation, detectives "discovered an internet website advertisement offering massage services with two females," police stated in a press release.
LADbible
April 23, 2018
One of the motivators behind children getting into the sex trade is poverty as a third of the population survive on just $2 a day. According to the Sun, prostitutes can earn up to 5,000 baht (Ãâã114) a night, which is 20 times the minimum wage. The End Child Prostitution and Trafficking network released aÃâà...
wnep.com
April 21, 2018
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- Police say the mayor of Bloomsburg showed up at a woman's door with $200 to pay her for sex. Bloomsburg Mayor Eric Bower tells Newswatch 16 the woman he visited when he was arrested is not a prostitute but a friend. He also says he is being targeted because of he's the mayor.
TAPinto.net
April 20, 2018
UNION, NJ – Union police arrested a man and four women in connection with a prostitution business at a local spa on Morris Avenue. In September 2017, Union police made arrests at the Birchwood Oils – Essential Oil Rub Treatments - when they discovered it to be a place of prostitution, police said.
ABC Action News
April 20, 2018
Following a two-month-long investigation, deputies arrested Nicholson for one count of owning a home for the purpose of prostitution and two counts of engaging in prostitution. His bond is set at $3,000. A former political supporter of Nicholson's said he is disappointed. "I feel badly for Nick and his family,Ãâà...
kfor.com
April 20, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma teacher is facing charges following allegations that he was soliciting sex from a minor. Officials with the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office say 44-year-old Jeramy Gregston has been charged with one count of attempting to engage in child prostitution and one count ofÃâà...
ABC Action News
April 20, 2018
On Thursday, 71-year-old Hernando County Commissioner Nick Nicholson was arrested for charges involving prostitution. "Awful, he's supposed to be a role model for the county and he's not a role model," said Brooksville Resident Ladonna Garman. The arrest came after a two month long investigation.
Putnam Daily Voice
April 20, 2018
Two women were busted by the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office for offering massages without a license, one was also accused of offering sex for extra cash. The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office arrested Li Xu-Campbell, 54, of New Windsor, and Wang Chai Xia, 34, of Flushing, around 7 p.m. Thursday inÃâà...
MyCentralJersey.com
April 20, 2018
EAST BRUNSWICK – A member of the East Brunswick Board of Education resigned on Friday after he was charged in a prostitution sting at a Hazlet massage parlor. Robert Cancro, 66, was arrested Feb. 16 by Hazlet police at the New Look Spa, which Hazlet police said was secretly operating aÃâà...
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April 20, 2018
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NBC New York
April 19, 2018
A Queens bar had its liquor license suspended after authorities allegedly uncovered prostitution, narcotics, illicit gambling and untaxed cigarettes. The New York State Liquor Authority issued the emergency suspension of Huang Jia Inc in Maspeth Wednesday effective immediately, which prohibits alcoholÃâà...
The Nation
April 18, 2018
Yutthachai had worked at the Nam Piang Din Police Station until the scandal broke last year, following which he was sacked along with eight other cops in the province who were put under serious disciplinary investigation after being implicated as customers of underage prostitution services. The caseÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
April 18, 2018
Sex workers say communities have a responsibility to look out for vulnerable young people in order to prevent underage prostitution. No caption. Photo: RNZ/Rebekah Parsons-King. Yesterday, a woman was sentenced to nearly seven years in jail for manipulating her 15-year-old daughter into working as aÃâà...
The Herald-News
April 18, 2018
JOLIET – A woman working for a massage parlor was arrested in Crest Hill for allegedly propositioning a man and an undercover police officer, authorities said. On March 22, Baoxia Li, 52, of the 200 block of West 19th Street in Chicago was arrested on a charge of prostitution in connection with the allegedÃâà...
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