A wife and escort haggle over services paid. What’s next? Read more at Sunday News…

Pro Athlete’s Wife Disputes Hooker Bill
By JONATHAN MARSHALL

A HIGH-profile sportsman’s wife threatened $1200-an-hour prostitute and stripper Lisa Lewis with a Disputes Tribunal case to recover thousands of dollars her husband paid her.

Sunday News obtained a series of communications between Hamilton-based Lewis and the sports star’s wife – who wanted $3000 back from the former naked TV newsreader and celebrity streaker.

“I need you to repay back the money my husband gave you,” the man’s wife said in a text message sent on Tuesday evening.

“I am giving u the chance to do the decent thing first. We have 6 young children to support and we need that money repayed (sic).”

In a voice message left on Lewis’ cellphone, the wife said: “You didn’t actually provide him with any services. We can look at going to the Small Claims Court or something like that because really you need to repay it.”

Sunday News agreed not to identify the man – a controversial figure over his sporting career – after his family said the story would affect his children.

Lewis refused to comment, but sources close to the mother-of-one said the sportsman was a regular client over three months and met her for one-hour bookings at a Hamilton motor inn.

Sunday News understands Lewis denies accepting thousands of dollars without providing the man a service. “Because of (the man’s) regular visits this was verification there was no problems with the services provided, hence the continuous re-visits,” Lewis said in a text message to the wife.

Read more at WXIX.com…

Six arrested in Internet prostitution sting
by Trina Edwards

Six people have been arrested after an undercover Internet prostitution sting in Hamilton.

The Hamilton Police Department’s Vice Section conducted the sting on the city’s east side. Undercover officers were aided by the Fairfield Police Department and worked several locations and made arrests at the trouble spots.

“Our officers and detectives listen to citizen complaints,” said Vice Section Sergeant Wade McQueen. “Our officers know where these people operate and our commitment to safer streets will continue unabated.”

Read the whole story at Fox 19…

7 arrested in Hamilton prostitution bust

Seven suspects were arrested after an undercover prostitution sting in Hamilton.

The sting was the effort of the Hamilton Police Department’s Vice, Problem-Oriented Policing and Community-Oriented Policing Sections.

The Hamilton Police Department’s Vice, Problem-Oriented Policing, and Community-Oriented Policing Sections conducted an undercover prostitution sting on July 1, 2009. As a result of the operation, seven suspects were arrested.

“We will continue to conduct these undercover operations throughout the City of Hamilton. We constantly receive and investigate all complaints from our citizens on various types of illegal activities in their neighborhoods. The focus of this sting was in the Fourth Ward,” said Hamilton Police Chief Neil Ferdelman.

Read more at NJ.com…

Prostitution alleged at massage parlor
by Erin Duffy

An anonymous tip and a month-long undercover investigation led to a raid on a Nottingham Way massage parlor Thursday, police said.

The raid targeted the Europa Massage Parlor, where members of the Narcotics and Anit-Crime Units arrested three Philadelphia residents on prostitution charges.

One 21-year-old woman was charged with promoting and engaging in prostitution, while a 25-year-old woman was also charged with engaging in prostitution.

A man was charged with promoting prostitution for his role in driving in driving the two women back and forth from the parlor.

Police also seized $1,000 in cash, business records and a laptop computer from the parlor.

Police said the investigation into the business practices of the parlor is ongoing, and that future arrests are expected to be made.

Read the whole story at Oxford Press…

Police: Dad arrested in sex sting while kids were with him

Police arrested four people for prostitution-related crimes, including a Hamilton father whose two young children were in tow, according to reports.

The man was arrested at 12:16 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, and charged with solicitation and two counts of endangering children for allegedly soliciting an undercover officer at East and Central avenues for a sex act while his two small children, ages 3 and 4, were in his care, according to police reports.

Some working girls are fighting back at the creeps and jerks who cross their path. Read the whole story at The Hamilton Spectator…

One woman is too afraid to go back on the street.

Another is so upset, she can’t even talk about it.

Yet another shows up at police headquarters and hands over her handwritten list of bad tricks to the homicide unit. Nine pages of licence plate numbers with notations such as “he’s weird” or “he hurts me.”

What happened in a dark parking lot on Mulberry Street early Saturday — somewhere between the blue trash bin and the stairwell where tricks are turned — was not just between a guy with a knife and a sex worker.

It was between him and all women.

Each time the predator plunged the blade into her body — not 10, not 20, but somewhere near 30 times — he was bringing this horror closer to every woman.

Let’s get this clear. This is not about sex. Not about prostitution. This is about hatred.

And the women who are closest to the streets of Hamilton are feeling that.

It is what they talk of outside the Wesley Centre. Some know the stabbing victim. Everyone knows of her. They discuss the vicious details of the attack.

“I don’t care who you are or what you do for a living, nobody deserves that,” says Mary Bristol, whose own arms are covered with what she says are knife scars. “It makes me feel scared. I wouldn’t walk down the streets by myself.

“This guy must be awful friggin’ sick to do this.”

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An unlikely relationship has grown between police and the vulnerable women who work on our streets. It has been born of necessity.

It began in 2002 when a task force called Project Advocate began to look at a series of attacks and disappearances involving sex workers. Charges were laid in some of those cases.

Police are going back to that databank to determine if there are any links to this new attack, says Staff Sergeant Steve Hrab, who led Project Advocate and now heads up this new investigation.