Sting last week: the FBI and Phoenix, Glendale, Chandler and Scottsdale Police "Men who pay for sex, prostitutes and pimps" per Fox10 News
Sting last week: the FBI and Phoenix, Glendale, Chandler and Scottsdale Police
"Men who pay for sex, prostitutes and pimps" per Fox10 News
8/23/2104 Police say the suspects are facing charges that include felony pandering, soliciting prostitution with a minor, receiving the earnings of prostitution and transportation with the purpose of prostitution.
BTW, a mature Phoenix escort has reported calls to her that are timed with various stings, of a person claiming to 15 yrs old who wants to have sex with someone experienced. She refuses and gives him a lecture but he keeps calling when these stings are going on (every few weeks). This past week it was a person (who sounded young) who wanted to buy her to celebrate his 15th birthday. We don't know for sure it's the sting but any escort would have to obviously be dumb and nuts to see him.
While FOX 10's Mia Garcia was riding along, undercover detectives talked to a few suspects online and one of them agreed to meet at a nearby convenience store. Four hours later, the suspect finally showed up and detectives arrested him outside of the motel.
These stings are nothing new, but police are doing more lately in hopes of sending a strong message to sex traffickers (includes customers and any helper like a boyfriend driver or phone helper) who want to cash in on prostitution during the Super Bowl. ”We always have something happen, big events yes, but we also have to get the word out that we do this here all the time,” said a Phoenix Police Vice Unit sergeant.
Phoenix Police joined other valley agencies to crack down on sex trafficking by targeting prostitutes, their pimps (boyfriend drivers etc) and men who pay for sex.
“If everybody gets together, theoretically we can chase them out of the state, and that’s what I’m hoping,” said the sergeant.
Police said Vice Mayor Jim Waring, chairman of the City of Phoenix Human Trafficking Task Force, sent the following message to task force members Friday morning: "I want to thank the men and women of the Greater Phoenix Area Human Trafficking Task Force, coordinated by the FBI, for this latest strike against human trafficking in the greater Phoenix area.
"These arrests demonstrate that the task force is using all tools available in our ongoing regional effort to reduce demand, eliminate the profits, and rescue victims of this often violent and demoralizing criminal activity. Suspected pimps were taken down by undercover Phoenix Police detectives and some of them posed as prostitutes to get a look behind the scenes. Detectives were online, logged into social media sites and waiting for pimps to try to lure them into prostitution.
Now comes the underage hype - to justify - like RB with no underaged involved
“The pimps are where the kids are, just like any other predators are,” said an undercover Phoenix Police Vice Unit detective. Pimps commonly send online messages to detectives posing as women down on their luck or naive underage girls. “It used to be they hang out at the mall or they go to the bus stops, now they’re on the internet,” said the undercover detective. The pimps ask them if they want to make money, and they even post pictures of money and receipts with large purchases. Detectives say even underage girls from good neighborhoods are victims. “What teenage girl doesn’t want attention? doesn’t want things that her parents wont buy her?” said the undercover detective.
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