Middle School Teacher arrested in Craigslist sting
A Tampa Bay area teacher gets taken to school. Read the whole story at Tampa Bay Online…
Teacher Among 13 Arrested In Polk Prostitution Sting
By NEIL JOHNSON
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office used the Web site Craigslist to set up a prostitution sting that netted 13 arrests including a Hillsborough County middle school teacher.
The sting targeted men who used the site to look for sex and was run out of a house in Winter Haven. The operation ran Thursday through Saturday.
Among those arrested was a middle school teacher, who was charged with soliciting and battery.
The sheriff’s office said the man offered the undercover detective $150 for sex. He was arrested on Friday.
In similar cases, teachers are told not to report to work and suspended with pay until the school board takes action. Only the school board can suspend a teacher without pay.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said his office has used Craigslist before in prostitution stings. The ad listed the Winter Haven address and the men went to the house seeking sex from a female undercover officer.




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