Prostitution
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Justin Strom pleads guilty to sex trafficking
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Justin Strom could face life in prison when he is sentenced on Sept 14. He faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years behind bars.
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Otasowie Asuen pleads guilty to racketeering
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Otasowie Asuen ran online escort services under the names Prime DC and DMV INDYS. He used the Craigslist and Backpage websites to recruit potential prostitutes from all over the U.S. and Canada.
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Police bust prostitution ring at BWI, led by 19-year-old
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Police have made a big arrest in a prostitution ring that spans from California to Maryland. And the ringleader, who has been operating out of hotels around the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, is only 19 years old,
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Secret Service scandal: El Salvador incident happened a year ago, source says
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A full year before six Secret Service agents were forced out in the midst of the Colombian prostitution scandal, a Seattle TV report says that agents participated in similar activities a year before in El Salvador.
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Jeremy Naughton indicted on kidnapping, prostitution charges
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Jeremy Naughton, a 31-year-old Brooklyn man, was indicted in Greenbelt on Wednesday, accused of kidnapping women and forcing them to work for him as prostitutes. At least one of the incidents happened in Silver Spring.
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Vienna massage parlor raided, four people arrested
Prostitution, bawdy house and pandering are among the charges brought against four people after police served a warrant against a massage parlor in Vienna.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn handed preliminary charges in prostitution probe
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Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been handed preliminary charges alleging he was involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France.
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John Edwards denies involvement in N.Y. prostitution ring
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A call girl for the alleged “Millionaire Madam” Anna Gristina told authorities she had sex with a man she believed was John Edwards and was paid, according to the web site DNAInfo.com.
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Rances Ulices Amaya, MS-13 gang member, convicted in sex trafficking ring
A jury in Alexandria convicted 23-year-old Rances Ulices Amaya on Thursday of conspiring to commit sex trafficking of child and three counts of sex trafficking three girls.
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Prostitution-free zones enacted
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On a corridor of Eastern Avenue along the D.C and Prince George's County line, prostitution is so bad that both jurisdictions have enacted laws setting up temporary prostitution free zones.
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Casper Cornejo, Fairfax man, pleads guilty to child trafficking
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A Fairfax man pleaded guilty Monday to trafficking teenagers to work as prostitutes for him in the D.C. region.
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Prostitution arrests in D.C. nets 74
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MPD over the weekend arrested 74 men and women for prostitution-related offenses during a 12-hour period in downtown D.C.
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74 arrested in 12 hours in D.C. prostitution sting
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An crackdown on prostitution led to the arrest of 74 people in a 12-hour period in D.C.
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Laurel prostitution sting nets 12 arrests
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The arrests in this round of reverse prostitution operations brings the total number of people arrested in such cases to 29 in the calendar year.
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