On November 1, 2018 the defendant found himself caught in the middle of a human trafficking investigation in a southeastern Massachusetts town. He had been frequenting local massage parlors and soliciting sexual services over the Internet for years. Unbeknownst to the man one of the massage parlors had been under investigation for human trafficking. Our…
Continue reading ›The defendant is a software systems analyst overseeing all technology for a local company employing in excess of one thousand people. On December 15, 2018 the man responded to an Internet advertisement listing full service sex for a negotiable fee. The advertisement was placed by police acting in an undercover capacity. Our client responded to…
Continue reading ›Nearly one year ago police detectives in a Bristol County town were investigating complaints of suspected prostitution. The investigation focused on a massage parlor that had been listing concerning advertisements on backpage.com. Officers had the establishment under surveillance. They watched as men entered the premises and left within one half hour. The police monitored the…
Continue reading ›The defendant received a continuance without a finding on a sex for a fee case, G.L. c. 272 Section 53A towards the end of last year. He satisfied the probationary conditions and the matter was dismissed. It remained on his CORI and he was unable to obtain employment. He hired our office to seal his…
Continue reading ›On April 27, 2018 the Malden Police Department had a task force assigned to eradicating prostitution from massage parlors. On a tip from several “Johns” officers targeted a woman who was advertising her sexual services. The officers made contact with the woman and negotiated various sex acts. In an undercover capacity they went to the…
Continue reading ›The defendant in this case is not a citizen. It is alleged that on January 26, 2018 a human trafficking task force established in Southern Middlesex County was engaged in a sting operation targeting sex for fee cases prohibited by G.L. c. 272 Section 53A. The officers used backpage.com to entice predisposed customers to respond…
Continue reading ›The defendant is from a South American country in the United States on asylum. On March 9, 2017 members of the Cambridge Police Special Investigations Unit and the Massachusetts State Police Human Trafficking Unit conducted a “john” operation utilizing an advertisement on backpage.com. This operation was staged at a Cambridge hotel. After a series of…
Continue reading ›The defendant is a tenured college professor with a doctorate and over forty years teaching experience. The prosecution alleged that on July 19, 2017 and undercover online investigation targeting violators of human trafficking laws was in progress. During the course of the investigation solicitations were made online in an effort to lure customers to purported…
Continue reading ›The defendants are unrelated. In the summer of 2017 both of these men were caught up in a sting operation involving the solicitation of “Johns” for sexual services. Members of the Boston Police Department Human Trafficking task force ran the operation. An advertisement was placed on the Internet on backpage.com. It sought customers for sexual…
Continue reading ›The defendant is a non-citizen with several graduate degrees in engineering. On July 27, 2017 he responded to a backpage.com advertisement soliciting sex for a fee. The person making the solicitation was an undercover police officer. Sexual services were negotiated over the phone and the defendant went to a hotel designated by the undercover officer.…
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