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.”

Read more at The Daily Record…

Cops: Sussex County woman charged $450/hour for sex in Parsippany hotel
BY TEHANI SCHNEIDER

A Sussex County woman who used an alias to solicit sex at a local hotel allegedly offered an undercover Parsippany police officer sexual acts at a rate of $450 an hour, police said.

The 43-year-old woman was charged with promoting prostitution Wednesday following a two-week investigation into alleged activities at the hotel, police said.

Sgt. Yvonne Christiano said the woman worked under the alias ‘Gia Pilazzo’ and police had received four anonymous tips about ‘Pilazzo’ advertising services at the hotel.

“(The tips) named (Gia Pilazzo) specifically,” Christiano said.

Parsippany detectives found a Web site had been established for ‘Pilazzo’s’ clients and ‘Pilazzo’ had occupied a room at the Sierra Suites for 60 of the past 90 days, according to hotel records.

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The Web site for ‘Gia Pilazzo’, which was still up and running on Thursday morning, was established this year.

It billed her as a female escort companion in New York and lists her physical traits and preferences for potential clients. ‘Pilazzo’, who said she will be turning 30 in February, calls herself a statuesque blond who is “Southern born, southern bred and NYC raised”, according to the site.

Read more at The Boston Herald…

Boston cops follow prostitution trail via Craigslist ad
By O’Ryan Johnson

Another prostitute allegedly peddling her services on Craigslist and working out of a Boston hotel was busted by police in an online sting, authorities said.

The arrest Tuesday of the 25-year-old woman comes just two weeks after cops locked up another woman  in an identical sting at the Westin Copley Place.

The woman – also wanted for defaulting on two prostitution warrants out of Chelsea and Dorchester – was arraigned yesterday on a prostitution charge in Boston Municipal Court. She pleaded not guilty.

A Boston detective posing as a john called a number listed on her advertisement, police said. She allegedly told the undercover cop to call her from the lobby of the hotel – which authorities declined to identify. Once he reached her hotel room, the cop handed her $200 and she began to undress, police said. At that point, cops knocked on the door, and she was arrested.

Cops seized four cell phones, a copy of her ad, and her room rental agreement.

Police are hoping to discourage prostitutes from advertising on Craigslist and other electronic billboards in the wake of the murder last year of Julissa Brisman.

Read more at The Record…

Man charged with keeping brothel in Kitchener hotel
By Cherri Greeno

A 25-year-old Toronto man is facing several charges after police discovered a brothel inside a Kitchener hotel this week.

Waterloo Regional Police say they discovered the bawdy house inside a hotel room Tuesday after receiving a tip that a missing Kitchener woman was seen there.

“Information they received when they arrived at the hotel led them to be suspicious that illegal sexual activities were taking place, which prompted further investigation,” said Waterloo Regional Police spokesperson Olaf Heinzel.

“This is very rare. We don’t have too many kinds of these incidents.”

When officers went to the room, they found three women and a man inside. The women — two from Toronto and one from Kitchener — were between the ages of 15 and 20.

Police allege that money was exchanged for sex in the hotel room.

Read more at kcoy.com…

Prostitution Sting In Five Cities

The Pismo Beach and Grover Beach Police Departments conducted a prostitution sting in their respective cities.

Officers went online and ultimately made several arrests.

It started when officers found an online poll saying Pismo Beach was an easy place to get away with prostitution.

They took that as a challenge and got to work.

Undercover officers from the Pismo Beach and Grover Beach Police Departments set up their sting at two un-named hotels Sunday.

Their mission was to lure in the people they suspected were involved in prostitution. “Each location was also equipped with audio and video surveillance and the subjects that were arrested responded to the hotel,” says Detective Chris Trimble of the Pismo Beach Police Department.

Officers used phone numbers found in advertisements on Craigslist and in some newspaper ads.

Detective Trimble says in most cases they were disguised as ads for massages or companionship.

Four women were arrested for solicitation of prostitution.

Read more at Spiegel Online…

Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex
By Politiken Staff

Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings.

Copenhagen’s city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates to ‘Be sustainable – don’t buy sex’.

“Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes,” the approach to hotels says.

Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk.

Discrimination

According to the report, the move has been organized by the Sex Workers Interest Group (SIO).

“This is sheer discrimination. Ritt Bjerregaard is abusing her position as Lord Mayor in using her power to prevent us carrying out our perfectly legal job. I don’t understand how she can be allowed to contact people in this way,” SIO Spokeswoman Susanne Møller tells avisen.dk.

Møller adds that it is reprehensible and unfair that Copenhagen politicians have chosen to use the UN Climate Summit as a platform for a hetz against sex workers.

“But they’ve done it and we have to defend ourselves,” Møller says.

A businessman in town for a convention decides to make his night a little more memorable, and winds up on the business end of a mickey and short his money & valuables.  We at Insider Escort Secrets tend to think this kind of stuff is overstated, but there’s no doubt that the legendary ‘trick roll’ is real.

Read more at The Las Vegas Sun…

Their valuables gone, like their ladies of the night
More than $2 million is likely be stolen in ’09 in ‘trick rolls’ in which a prostitute robs a client
By Abigail Goldman

People in the company of Clark County prostitutes collectively reported having $1.4 million in cash and goods stolen from them during the first nine months of this year — dupes of a larceny genre better known to police as the “trick roll.”

By year’s end, it’s estimated the total reported losses will exceed $2 million — almost double last year’s total, and probably a fraction of the real amount.

How many people file police reports, after all, when their prostitutes disappoint?

Enough, at least, for Metro vice detectives to determine the problem is getting worse, and assign two detectives to trick roll investigations exclusively. They’ve gotten roughly one case every day this year. In 2007 it was more like one a week.

That increase could have something to do with the economy. Fewer tourists with less money means supply exceeds demand. Prices drop and competition ratchets up for prostitutes, many of whom police say must meet nightly quotas set by pimps. Metro Sgt. Donald Hoier, though, says the problem picked up before the economy fell, simply because Clark County was saturated with sex workers and outlets for illicit entertainment.

When everybody scrambles for the same pool of money, bad seeds take short cuts.

Consider the reported losses Hoier reads from a list of cases: $10,000 in cash, casino chips and a laptop; $30,000 in cash and chips; $20,000 Rolex; $6,000 Rolex; $5,000 cash; and — perhaps the most interesting, a case Hoier can only hint at — $175,000 in casino chips.

These are preposterous amounts, which is probably why they were reported in the first place.

Sometimes these are crimes of opportunity. A watch is left out, a laptop is folded in the corner.

But there are prostitutes for whom sex is only a pretext to theft, and others who have no intention of sleeping with their clients, Hoier said. They know how to exploit angles and mirrors to see safe codes being punched, while others, Hoier says, actually become good at identifying the tones assigned to each number on the key pads.

“While he’s in the shower,” Hoier says, “she’s taking everything.”

Drugs are slipped into drinks. Clients are escorted to ATMs for payment, only to find their cards have been stolen by someone who surreptitiously saw the pin number. Two women come to one room and run lewd tactical diversion.

But sometimes it’s just a matter of violence.

Prostitutes have pulled guns. Pimps, waiting nearby, Hoier says, have beaten people just shy of death.

All of this is easier to accomplish when the target fits a preferred profile: intoxicated and alone.

Read more at The Las Vegas Sun.

It’s best to have a convincing cover story when seeking the talents of a pro.  Read the whole story at ForsythNews.com…

Call girl, client caught at hotel
By Julie Arrington

A Stone Mountain woman who listed her occupation as “call girl” and her alleged client were arrested over the weekend at a local hotel.

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According to a sheriff’s report, authorities were called about 3:30 a.m. Saturday to the Holiday Inn Express on Buford Highway in response to a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot.

Deputies spoke with the driver, who said he had just dropped the woman off to visit a friend.

A hotel employee reported seeing the woman get out of the car and go to one of the rooms.

The investigating deputy went up to the room and noted that he could hear “muffled noises from inside.”

About five minutes later, a fully-clothed woman opened the door and a man, wearing only underwear, was walking around inside. Both looked surprised, the deputy wrote.

According to the report, the man first said the woman was a friend of about eight years who was visiting him at the hotel. Despite the length of their alleged friendship, the man didn’t know her last name.

Authorities observed that both beds in the room had been used and there were signs of sexual activity.

Upon further questioning, the man told the deputy he was separated from his wife and needed someone to talk to about his marital problems.

The woman, he said, was a college friend from Maryland.

The deputy questioned whether the friends actually had time to talk during the estimated 30 minutes they had been in the room.

The man later said he did not know the woman, whom he admitting having met through Exclusive Callgirls of Atlanta.

Remember the good old days when you could at least count on the hotel or motel staff to turn a blind eye?  That’s vanishing, too.

Read the whole story at The Canton Reporter…

Area motels and hotels watch for and report suspicious activity to police
By Benjamin Duer

She was unemployed. He worked construction.

He answered her online ad.

Both, in late July, agreed to rendezvous at Motel 6 on Sunset Strip Avenue NW for sex. He paid her $200.

They thought their transaction was a discreet, away from investigative eyes.

They were wrong.

Police Chief Harley Neftzer said area motels and hotels are engaged in a cooperative program with police to watch out for suspicious activities.

Those activities include criminal prostitution and drug deals, Neftzer said.

Motel officials helped police pick up the woman and her paying john on prostitution-related charges July 21.

“Someone noticed there were a lot of people going in and out of that room every hour,” said Motel 6 general manager Jason Deffendall.

“That’s a huge red flag.”

Getting a room on the QT just became a little harder.  Read the whole story at InsideBayArea.com…

San Ramon will require hotels to provide information about their guests

Hotels and motels in this city will be required to record personal information about their guests and keep it on file for police.

The San Ramon City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday night that will require establishments that rent rooms to overnight guests to keep a register of information available to investigators — including the visitors’ true names, addresses, vehicle descriptions, license-plate numbers and their hotel room numbers. Police are recommending that the information be kept on file for at least a year.

Large hotels such as the San Ramon Marriott, which hosts large events, would be exempt from keeping track of vehicle registration, said San Ramon Police Chief Scott Holder.

Holder said Wednesday there were 24 arrests at or near the city’s six hotels and motels in the first half of the year. The crimes range from prostitution to stolen property to drug-related violations.

Part of the reason to have a law on the city books is to deter criminals from seeking sanctuary at San Ramon establishments, Holder said, but added there was another reason he was pushing for it.