On November 20, 2015 members of the Burlington, Massachusetts police vice squad conducted a reverse sting targeting customers of prostitutes. Officers enlisted the assistance of a local hotel where they secured two rooms. Then, using backpage.com a listing for an adult escort was placed. Just over an hour later a telephone call was placed by…
Continue reading ›In late August 2014 the Andover, Massachusetts police department received information that a message parlor was offering sexual services for a fee. The business placed an advertisement on backpage.com offering Asian girls with a sensational touch. Surveillance of the business was established. Officers observed men entering the business, staying for a period of time and…
Continue reading ›On January 23, 2015 members of the Boston Police Department set up a sting operation targeting men looking to purchase sex over the internet. The operation consisted of an advertisement set up on backpage.com soliciting men looking for a good time. Through emails and texting the defendant and an undercover officer posing as a prostitute…
Continue reading ›On January 24, 2014 members of a Boston Police task force set up a sting operation targeting people interested in paying prostitutes for sex. Through a Craigslist.com listing, undercover officers made contact with a thirty three year old man. The advertisement offered oral sex in exchange for a certain fee. Electronic negotiations followed and ultimately…
Continue reading ›Malden District Court: On November 28, 2012 members of the Wakefield and Middlesex Regional Drug Task Forces took part in a prostitution investigation. They found a listing on backpage.com advertising sex for a fee and referencing the prostitute being a transvestite. Officers, acting undercover responded to the listing and knocked on a hotel room door…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that our client was caught in a sting operation. Local police working on a regional task force placed advertisements in backpage.com offering sexual services. Our client, a local business owner, married and with a family responded to one of the listings and agreed to meet a woman identifying herself…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: On August 16, 2012 members of the Boston Police Department set up an investigation into Human Trafficking in Suffolk County. An online operation was created using a young looking Asian female advertising on backpage.com for sexual services. The woman claimed to be fifteen years old and quickly received over fifty solicitations for…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: In mid-August 2012, members of the Boston Family Justice Unit, Human Trafficking Division conducted an operation seeking people using the internet for illicit sexual purposes. Officers set up a phony backpage.com ad soliciting men looking for girls under the age of sixteen. This ad listed the girl as being fifteen years old.…
Continue reading ›Concord District Court: A multi-jurisdictional task force began an investigation into suspected prostitution activities at a Lexington, Massachusetts massage parlor. A detective acting in an undercover capacity entered the establishment on June 8, 2012. He was greeted by two Asian females and escorted to a room in the rear of the establishment. There he was…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that our client contacted an undercover officer from the Human Trafficking Division of the police department, who was posing as a 17-year-old girl on a website commonly used for online prostitution. Our client allegedly solicited for oral and straight sex and agreed to meet the undercover officer at a…
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