'Johns' Get Stung: Prostitution Sting Leads to 15 Arrests
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By Linda N. Weller, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Jun. 24--ALTON -- Police charged an airline pilot, a minister, a church deacon, a Maytag repairman and 15 other people in a recent two-day prostitution sting, with some "johns" setting up dates via the Internet.
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The US Justice Department&#39;s crackdown on cyber crime has brought to light illegal activities, including credit-card fraud, to the tune of over $215 million and resulted in dozens of arrests, a senior official said.
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An anti-prostitution activist known for videotaping prostitutes and their customers and giving the footage to police and television shows now faces accusations that he set up some of the sexual encounters so he could capture them on camera.
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A 13 YEAR old Taiwanese boy has been arrested for running a sexual services business on the web. More than 100 teens had signed up for the boy&#39;s &quot;compensated dating&quot; site which usually refers to youngsters trading sex for money or gifts.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - An undercover police operation took an odd turn Thursday when a Syracuse police officer pretending to be a john met a suspected prostitute who pretended to be a police officer. The encounter ended with two women under arrest.
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America's Most Un-wanted A US man who abused a pre-pubescent girl in his workplace has been jailed for 15 years.â¦
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By Bob Purvis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 9--Police say that when Milwaukee County sheriff's Deputy Anthony Moffett went looking for a prostitute last month, he wasn't driving down the streets where they often work, and he wasn't looking to make an arrest.
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MORE Territory arrests are expected as a massive Internet child pornography sting envelopes the country. Nine Territorians have already been charged in the covert police operation, including one former Darwin teacher.
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Dozens of people accused of working for a Mexican drug cartel were arrested Wednesday in a multistate bust that has netted more than $45 million in cash
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Prostitutes in eastern England are being offered financial help to stay off the streets as police step up their hunt for a serial killer feared to have murdered five women, officials said on Friday.
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NEW DELHI -- Two weeks ago, a TV news channel here broadcast an expos? alleging that a math teacher at a local school had forced young girls into prostitution. The public reaction was swift and harsh: Within an hour, hundreds of enraged parents had stormed the school and a crowd had found the...
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Russian prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating a campaign group's complaint that conscripts were bullied into working in a prostitution ring run by older servicemen. In the latest embarrassment for Russia's military, one soldier said he was tortured with electric shocks until he agreed to have sex with clients, according to testimony collected by a campaign group. ...
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Police probing the murders of five prostitutes in Suffolk said they have received a phenomenal response of nearly 10,000 calls from the public, offering tips in one of Britain's biggest murder hunts.
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Detectives hunting the killer of five  prostitutes in eastern England have arrested a man, police said today. The man was arrested at his home in Trimley, near Felixstowe, Suffolk, on suspicion of murdering all five victims, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told a news conference.
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Arrests of foreigners for charges related to underage prostitution have doubled since last year.
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More than 120 individuals have been arrested in the United States on federal charges in the largest steroids crackdown ever, the Justice Department said on Monday.
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Police probing the murders of five prostitutes said they had received nearly 10,000 calls from the public offering tips in one of the country's biggest murder hunts.