The heat is on in Pasco! Read more at The Pasco Tribune…

Prostitution sting in Pasco nets 11 arrests

An undercover operation run by the New Port Richey Police Department and the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office netted 11 prostitution arrests Friday.

The sting, which ran from noon to 8 p.m., targeted people soliciting prostitution on the west side of Pasco County, according to a news release.

All were charged with solicitation of prostitution.

An ‘anonymous tip’ leads police to an alleged working girl trying to get by. Read more at The Virginia Gazette…

Charge filed in prostitution case
By Amanda Kerr

Police have filed an arrest warrant against the 27-year-old woman implicated last week in a months-long prostitution investigation at a High Street apartment.

The woman has been charged with one misdemeanor count of prostitution. Police have not yet served the warrant on the woman, who has agreed to turn herself in to police on Saturday. She is expected to be released on a summons.

Police began investigating possible prostitution activities at her apartment in the Sterling Manor apartment complex in February after receiving an anonymous tip. According to a search warrant, the woman, during an interview with police last month, admitted to engaging in prostitution activities at her home.

All sorts of fun going on at a local Asian Spa. Read more at GoErie.com…

2 charged with prostitution at Tokyo Spa near Meadville
By TIM HAHN

Two people were arrested, and police confiscated items from a Vernon Township business.

Two employees were charged with prostitution when Pennsylvania State Police vice officers were asked to check out the business.

Township officials now plan to take a closer look at the Tokyo Spa in the wake of Wednesday’s police activity at the nearly year-old business, which is at the busy intersection of Routes 19, 98 and 322.

Two employees of the business remained in the Crawford County Correctional Facility on Thursday on third-degree misdemeanor counts of prostitution and related offenses.

Both were arraigned before Vernon Township District Judge Michael Rossi at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, hours after state police allege that the women had illegal sexual contact with two undercover troopers.

The arrests came three months into an investigation that was launched in March, when Vernon Township police contacted the state police Troop E vice unit about suspected prostitution activity, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed with a search warrant that police obtained for the business on Wednesday.

Vernon Police Chief Randy Detzel said Thursday that township Manager David Stone had received numerous complaints about the Tokyo Spa from neighboring businesses. They included complaints of used condoms in their parking lots, police said.

Now, that’s what I call ‘day care!’ Read more at The Naperville Sun…

Day-care operator faces prostitution charge
Woman, two others used Internet, north-side hotels, police say

By SUSAN FRICK CARLMAN, BILL BIRD AND JOSH LARSEN

Officials of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Friday initiated action to shutter a Naperville day-care home operated by a woman now facing trial for prostitution.

“We are in the process of shutting down this day-care home,” DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe said of the ABC & TLC Home Daycare business at 61 Bunting Lane in central Naperville.

The home’s operator has a state license that is in effect through Sept. 22, 2012, but “she will not be allowed to operate (the business) while the criminal case is pending,” Marlowe said.

“A conviction for prostitution would serve as a bar to holding a day-care license,” Marlowe said. Should the woman be found guilty of that charge, it would be “impossible for her to get a license,” he said.

Marlowe added the home will be formally closed early next week. It does not operate on weekends.

The 42-year-old woman and two other women were arrested Thursday at hotels on Naperville’s north side as part of an ongoing anti-vice effort by Naperville police.

Marlowe said that since July 5, 2006, the woman has had a state license to operate a day-care home, which differs from a day-care center based on the number of children for which each business provides care. The business “is licensed to care for a maximum of seven children,” Marlowe said.

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Reached at her home Friday morning, the woman declined to discuss the arrests. A handwritten sign on her front door read, “Daycare is closed. Family emergency,” and provided the telephone number of an employee. The woman reached at that phone number said she had no information about the incident.

Police Cmdr, Mike Anders said Friday investigators “have not been at (Thoren’s) house at all as part of this investigation. We have nothing to indicate any children were placed in any harm.”

In a prepared statement, police Sgt. John McAnally related Thursday how members of the department’s Special Operations Group “conducted an investigation into subjects engaging in acts of prostitution through various Internet sites at hotels and motels on Naperville’s far north side.” Police have conducted similar investigations in recent months that have ended in other arrests.

The women “posted various services on the Internet and agreed to meet their customers at various hotels and perform sexual acts in exchange for money.” They were met in the hotels by police officers working undercover, he said.

The statement did not identify the hotels where the women were arrested. McAnally in the past has declined to name them because their owners and employees have cooperated in the police investigations.

Now, that’s what I call ‘day care!’ Read more at The Naperville Sun…

Day-care operator faces prostitution charge
Woman, two others used Internet, north-side hotels, police say

By SUSAN FRICK CARLMAN, BILL BIRD AND JOSH LARSEN

Officials of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Friday initiated action to shutter a Naperville day-care home operated by a woman now facing trial for prostitution.

“We are in the process of shutting down this day-care home,” DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe said of the ABC & TLC Home Daycare business at 61 Bunting Lane in central Naperville.

The home’s operator has a state license that is in effect through Sept. 22, 2012, but “she will not be allowed to operate (the business) while the criminal case is pending,” Marlowe said.

“A conviction for prostitution would serve as a bar to holding a day-care license,” Marlowe said. Should the woman be found guilty of that charge, it would be “impossible for her to get a license,” he said.

Marlowe added the home will be formally closed early next week. It does not operate on weekends.

The 42-year-old woman and two other women were arrested Thursday at hotels on Naperville’s north side as part of an ongoing anti-vice effort by Naperville police.

Marlowe said that since July 5, 2006, the woman has had a state license to operate a day-care home, which differs from a day-care center based on the number of children for which each business provides care. The business “is licensed to care for a maximum of seven children,” Marlowe said.

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Reached at her home Friday morning, the woman declined to discuss the arrests. A handwritten sign on her front door read, “Daycare is closed. Family emergency,” and provided the telephone number of an employee. The woman reached at that phone number said she had no information about the incident.

Police Cmdr, Mike Anders said Friday investigators “have not been at (Thoren’s) house at all as part of this investigation. We have nothing to indicate any children were placed in any harm.”

In a prepared statement, police Sgt. John McAnally related Thursday how members of the department’s Special Operations Group “conducted an investigation into subjects engaging in acts of prostitution through various Internet sites at hotels and motels on Naperville’s far north side.” Police have conducted similar investigations in recent months that have ended in other arrests.

The women “posted various services on the Internet and agreed to meet their customers at various hotels and perform sexual acts in exchange for money.” They were met in the hotels by police officers working undercover, he said.

The statement did not identify the hotels where the women were arrested. McAnally in the past has declined to name them because their owners and employees have cooperated in the police investigations.

Another nominee for ‘Mother of the Year. Read more at The Intelligencer…

Mother Charged For Sex With Girl
Woman accused of prostituting daughter

A 46-year-old mother has been charged with prostituting her 14-year-old daughter, said Wells Township Police Capt. Sean Norman.

Norman said police became aware that a 21-year-old man had posted items on the Internet saying he loved the girl.

When officers interviewed the man, he admitted to having sex with the girl and that the mother had demanded cash for the sexual relations, Norman said.

Norman said the man was living at the Rayland home with the mother and daughter.

The mother admitted to police it wasn’t the first time she had sold her daughter for sex, Norman said.

The mother told police she caught her 42-year-old boyfriend about four years ago having sex with her daughter, who was then 10-years old, Norman said. The mother said she allowed the sex to continue in exchange for crack cocaine, he said.

“She allowed it to happen and never reported it,” Norman said.

Norman noted there is a third man who said he gave the mother crack cocaine in exchange for sex with the daughter.

The mother’s name is not being printed to protect the child’s identity.

The woman has been charged with compelling prostitution of a minor and complicity to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

Burbank Cops getting tough!  Read more at NBC Los Angeles…

Burbank Hookers, Beware
“The Burbank Police Department will not allow prostitutes and their customers to believe that they can use Burbank as their meeting place.”
By OLSEN EBRIGHT

Police in Burbank have issued a warning to pimps, prostitutes and anyone else benefiting from prostitution-related crimes.

“The Burbank Police Department will not allow prostitutes and their customers to believe that they can use Burbank as their meeting place,” Lt. Armen Dermenjian told the Burbank Leader.

The warning coincides with a beefed-up effort from cops to curb sex trade.

On Feb 23, police arrested three women at the Ramada Burbank Airport Hotel, said Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada. On Feb. 16, a 19-year-old Poway woman and 26-year-old San Diego man were arrested on prostitution-related charges, according to police records.

Other recent incidents include the arrest of two Oakland men at the Extended StayAmerica Los Angeles-Burbank Airport on suspicion of pimping a minor under the age of 16, Quesada told the newspaper.

“We want these people to know that if they’re going to engage in this kind of conduct that the police and citizens won’t put up with it, and we’ll be out there targeting it,” Quesada said. “We don’t want to let them get comfortable.”

It’s called ‘evidence,’ and while the police normally don’t go after clients, this is a risk that clients should know exists. Read the whole story at LoHud.com…

Chappaqua resident, 46, charged with prostitution, kept client book
by Marcela Rojas

A longtime Chappaqua resident, who was arrested by an undercover detective for allegedly offering “sensual massage” to “generous gentleman” on Craigslist, stated she charged $200 an hour for sex and kept a book of her male clients, according to the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.

The D.A.s Office submitted paperwork to New Castle Town Court saying that the woman made a statement on Feb. 19 to a criminal investigator, admitting she began posting ads on Craigslist that “were sexual in nature” after advertising on the site for about a year. The 46-year-old woman posted a photo of herself and requested photos of the men she meets whom she charged $200 an hour for various sex acts as well as “top rate” massages, according to the statement.

The woman, a registered nurse, stated she worked for herself and kept a book of her clients’ first names and telephone numbers near her computer and that she “met men at her house and at hotels occasionally.”

And the South Park Madame Story closes its final chapter. Read more at WBTV.com…

“South Park Madame” released from jail
By Cameron Easley

Sallie Saxon, the “South Park Madame,” was released Tuesday from prison after completing her two-year federal prison sentence.

The 60-year-old woman and her husband, Donald, were sentenced back in 2008 for running a high-end prostitution ring out of hotels in SouthPark and uptown Charlotte.

Saxon’s enterprise was known as “Hush Hush” and claimed to offer non-sexual companionship on its website for fees in excess of $700.

According to prosecutors, Saxon made as much as $3 million.

Clients would pay up to a thousand dollars or more for the escorts.

Read more at GreenwichTime.com…

Police: Woman sought ‘upscale men’ in NY suburb

A woman in an affluent New York City suburb has been accused of targeting “upscale men” for prostitution.

New Castle police, who cover Chappaqua, say a 46-year-old woman focused on “upscale men” in ads on Craigslist. Court papers say she offered “sensuous massage” to “generous gentlemen.”

The documents say she was arrested at her home Feb. 19 after she accepted $200 for sex with an undercover officer.