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On: Sep 6, 07
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Hookers have been apparently been using Craigslist to hook up with clients for a while, sometimes even using it as a convenient way to book a weekend full of appointments in other states. Now the police are finding equally convenient to bust them and their johns using Craigslist. Thanks to Craigslist, Sandpoint, Idaho, population 8,105, had their first prostitution arrest since World War II according to the police chief. Thank God the alert law enforcement officers of Sandpoint were able to arrest the prostitute before she could score at one of the town’s five crystal meth labs or there is no telling what could destruction she could have caused.

Nassau County has made more than 70 arrests since it began focusing on Craigslist last year, one of numerous crackdowns by vice squads from Hawaii to New Hampshire that have lately been monitoring the Web site closely, sometimes placing decoy ads to catch would-be customers. “Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now,” said Richard McGuire, Nassau’s assistant chief of detectives. “Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest.” In July raids, the sheriff of Cook County, Ill., rounded up 43 women working on the streets — and 60 who advertised on Craigslist. In Seattle, a covert police ad on Craigslist in November resulted in the arrests of 71 men, including a bank officer, a construction worker and a surgeon. And in Jacksonville, Fla., a single ad the police posted for three days in August netted 33 men, among them a teacher and a firefighter. “We got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hits” in phone calls and e-mail messages, said John P. Hartley, the assistant chief sheriff there. (nytimes)

References: ocregister, nytimes

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What a messed up country. If you pay someone to have sex on camera its legal. That apparently isnt sex since its "acting." And its legal to pay someone who recorded an act on camera and sell it. And the government is afraid to tax the scumbags who make that crap, but prefers to pick on small time players.

By: raul on Dec 24, 07   0 Trends   1 Comments

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