A 22-year-old former Bronx prostitute is the first American citizen to have her convictions thrown out under New York's new sex-trafficking law, after prosecutors agreed she had been forced into the sex trade at age 13.
Read More →A Manatee County (Fla.) Sheriff's deputy used a flaccid, rubber penis to bust a prostitute who entered his vehicle and had asked him to expose himself.
Read More →Officer Michael Johns, a 16-year veteran of the force, allegedly rented vehicles for the prostitutes, allowed them to inject heroin in his house, and paid for online ads promoting their work.
Read More →The incident began at about 3 a.m. Sunday on the 600 block of South King Street, when Officer Jon Rickett, 30, spotted a vehicle down a gravel road. He went to investigate, and the vehicle backed into him. He fired at the car, stopping it.
Read More →Jerry Sanders, San Diego's mayor and former police chief, is backing current Chief William Lansdowne's efforts to address a spate of officer misconduct cases.
Read More →The 25-year-old Stockton woman was seen loitering on 16th Avenue near a dirty Oldsmobile. She was arrested in an undercover sting.
Read More →Robert "Bobby" Titcomb, 49, was one of four men arrested in an undercover sting operation late Monday and later released on $500 bail, confirms the Honolulu Police Department.
Read More →So far, eight women have been found in Suffolk County between Gilgo Beach and Oak Beach since last summer. At least four were Craigslist hookers. Police are still searching for escort Shannan Gilbert, who has been missing since December.
Read More →Jomo Zambia's lawyers argued that only someone who recruits innocent victims rather than working prostitutes or someone posing as a prostitute can be guilty of pandering.
Read More →City officials have had to trim the police force from 155 to 90, leaving the remaining officers with little time to haul in hookers and johns. As a result, streetwalkers and pimps have come from as far away as Oregon and Mexico to work Vallejo.
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