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…
Continue reading ›Woburn District Court: On November 4, 2011 members of a local task force were investigating a prostitution ring within the city of Woburn. The officers had received information from a confidential informant that three women were working in a certain establishment was operating as a house of prostitution and advertising itself as a massage parlor.…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that on February 2, 2012 members of the Boston Police Human Trafficking Division along with other law enforcement personnel were engaged in an online prostitution investigation. One of the officers was posing as a nineteen year old prostituted. She was contacted by our client online. An arrangement was made…
Continue reading ›Orleans District Court: Police sought a complaint against our client, a pastor at a Cape Cod church, alleging that he caused severe damage to both sides of a car, including denting the driver’s door, trunk, and hood areas, smashing the front and rear windshields, and snapping off both side mirrors. When police confronted our client,…
Continue reading ›Brockton District Court: The prosecution alleged that our client attempted to pay an undercover police officer for sexual favors. Specifically, it was alleged that after our client had a short conversation with the officer, who was presenting herself as a prostitute, the officer asked our client if he “wanted to party.” Our client responded by…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that on July 19, 2011 Boston Police Detectives were conducting an investigation into prostitution activities using backpage.com. Officers contacted and identified a female who was heavily entrenched into advertising her services, fees and locations for conducting business. An undercover operative learned that the woman was from Sacramento, California and…
Continue reading ›Woburn District Court: In January 2011 Burlington, Massachusetts police were investigating incidents of prostitution originating through www.backpage.com . They observed an advertisement showing a white female wearing lingerie offering unspecified services at a specified hourly rate. The advertisement listed a phone number. Officers placed a call and the woman provided them with a hotel address.…
Continue reading ›Malden District Court: The police applied for a complaint against the defendant alleging that he had paid for a sexual favor from a masseuse operating out of a hotel. The defendant was approached and questioned by a police officer as he was leaving and admitted to paying for a massage and receiving the sexual service.…
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