The same prostitution sting tactics that snared 19 men over a month last year produced a catch of 10 in two days late last week, including three women, police said Monday.
The operation revealed again that, in the Internet age, prostitution can be present in any community, a police spokesman said. The women traveled from Peoria and Bloomington to meet an officer posing as a customer who answered ads they had posted on www. That website has become known nationwide as a medium for sex-for-cash transactions.
City police used it in the same fashion in March and April when they arrested 19 of the 23 men who responded to ads seeking sexual contact at a Pekin location. Similar to last year, when four of the men who answered the ads backed away from an agreement that would have produced their arrests, one man did so Thursday and was not arrested, Jolly said.
Another of the seven men also left the hotel room but was arrested in the hotel parking lot. Officers kept watch over the negotiations in the hotel room through a hidden video camera, he said. Similar tactics were used to arrest the three women. Brock Lindenfelser, 36, of Locust St. He has not yet been charged in Tazewell County Circuit Court on the case. The website www. Digital access or digital and print delivery.
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