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Post by Amber Love on Dec 30, 2018 15:24:46 GMT -8
Amber was one of the 1st ladies to start a LPIN/Prostitution website and message board. Her and a guy, that used the handle "Theirallsohot", started it around 2004. It lasted about 1 year maybe 2 years. Then just disappeared over night. I thought their message board was one of the better ones at that time. I believe they had 5 during that time (2004). BOB, NBT, NVB, SIN, and NBG(Nevada Brothel Girls) it was mostly friendly an geared to help the ladies draw customers.
Amber also had a blog site. Amber Love's "Prostitution Daily" I actually don't remember the Blog site, but found it today while looking for something else. I'm kind of surprised that the links still work. On most of these old threads and messages, the links take you nowhere. Anyway here is the link.
Amber and I were friends most of the time. We did have our battles. At one time she wanted me to be a moderator. At a later time she banned me. Overall I liked her. Like I said before I thought she had a good board. Some freedom to express yourself, but not letting it get to out of control.
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2018 15:44:08 GMT -8
This is an interesting article on the anti Brothel movement in 2004
Amber Love's "Prostitution Daily"I try to Give My brain exercise daily. Now you can watch! I hope you enjoy. Amber Love Legal Prostitute & Webmistress Nevada Brothel GirlsSunday, June 06, 2004November 09, 1999
Search continues for missing anti-brothel crusaderBy Martin Griffith ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A search resumed Tuesday for a missing anti-brothel crusader whose bloodstained car was found near a brothel east of here.Washoe County sheriff's Lt. Doug Gist said a helicopter search Tuesday near the Old Bridge Ranch brothel turned up no trace of Milo John Reese, director of the group Nevada Against Prostitution.Reese, 54, of Reno, was last seen by his wife Sunday night when he left for a meeting at the legal bordello located next to the notorious Mustang Ranch brothel, which was confiscated last summer by the federal government.Reese did not tell his wife what the meeting was about or who he planned to see. Investigators said his car was found Monday about a half-mile from the brothel, but they're unsure whether he reached it."I'm worried. I don't know what happened to him, if he was kidnapped or what," Susan Reese told the Reno Gazette-Journal.Sheriffs investigators who arrived at the brothel Tuesday afternoon to interview people there said they had more questions than answers.Detectives say Reese's disappearance is suspicious because a car window was smashed with a rock and small traces of blood were found inside and outside the car, which was left about a quarter-mile from Interstate 80."We're looking at the possibility he met with foul play and it was possibly connected to his brothel views," Gist said. "But it easily could be something else, so we're looking at this case very broadly."A woman who answered the phone at the Old Bridge Ranch said she knew nothing about the case and referred all questions to owner David Burgess, who didn't return phone calls.Dennis Hoff, the owner of two other legal brothels east of Carson City, defended Burgess and said he suspected Reese arranged his disappearance to get publicity."I hope for his sake that he's safe and secure someplace, but my guess is he will show up and they'll find David had nothing to do with it at all," Hoff said. "My impression is that this is designed to hurt David. (Reese) has his opinions, but he's never done anything to irritate brothel owners because he's ineffective."Investigators also are considering the possibility there was no foul play, Gist said. "I suppose anything is possible and that's why we're investigating all avenues."Reese has tried for years to shut down Nevada's legal brothels, claiming the state Health Division has covered up information that women with AIDS work there.In 1993, the Nevada Brothel Association threatened to sue him after he put the message, "Warning: Brothels are not AIDS safe," on billboards near the Old Bridge Ranch and Mustang Ranch 10 miles east of Reno.Reese, who admits having regularly visited prostitutes as a young man, considers the trade degrading to women and against biblical teachings.In an effort to discredit prostitution, he went so far as to seek a license to operate a gay brothel in Pahrump several years ago.Burgess' license has been yanked by Storey County officials, who cited noise from motorcycles and harassment of nearby residents by cyclists. A district court judge upheld the county's decision, but the brothel is operating under a temporary court order pending a Nevada Supreme Court ruling on his appeal.Prostitution is legal in 12 of Nevada's 17 counties, including Storey County where the Old Bridge Ranch brothel is located.Bloody Car of Anti-Prostitution Crusader Found
No Trace of Him
Authorities are searching for a missing Reno man who was seeking to prove a brothel was acting illegallyLaw enforcement authorities in the Reno area continued to look unsuccessfully Tuesday for a Reno anti-prostitution crusader whose blood-stained car was found early Monday near a Storey County brothel. Authorities do not know what happened to John Reese, 54, a construction worker whose car was found near the Old Bridge Ranch brothel about 10 miles east of Reno.Windows in the car had been broken and there was blood in the vehicle. Passers-by called police early Monday after thinking the car may have been involved in an accident.Reese's wife, Susan, said he left for the brothel about 7:30 p.m. Sunday and told her he would return 30 minutes later. Reese told the Review-Journal's Donrey Capital Bureau in a Friday night telephone conversation that he planned to go to the brothel Sunday to look for a prostitute named Nicole. He said he feared for his safety because David Burgess, owner of the brothel, is friendly with members of the Hells Angels.Reese asked a reporter to accompany him. By interviewing the prostitute, Reese said he hoped to establish that Burgess was sending prostitutes from his brothel to service tourists in Reno area hotels where prostitution is illegal. With corroborative information from Nicole, Reese wanted to force authorities to close the brothel. Burgess did not return a phone call seeking comment Tuesday, but a brothel representative said Burgess does not know John Reese.Dennis Hoff, the owner of two other legal brothels east of Carson City, told The Associated Press that he suspected Reese arranged his disappearance to get publicity. "I hope for his sake that he's safe and secure someplace, but my guess is he will show up and they'll find David had nothing to do with it at all," Hoff said. "My impression is that this is designed to hurt David. (Reese) has his opinions, but he's never done anything to irritate brothel owners because he's ineffective."Lt. Doug Gist of the Washoe County Sheriff's Department said investigators are treating the case as a missing persons incident under suspicious circumstances. "We are not ruling out that he might have met with foul play and also that he might be alive and well," he said. Gist said a helicopter flew over the brothel area Tuesday and that detectives also checked the nearby Truckee River.Over the years, Reese has engaged in several publicity stunts designed to bring attention to his anti-prostitution efforts. At one point, he even announced he was seeking a license to open a gay brothel near Pahrump. He later said he made up that story only to bring attention to the evils of prostitution.An unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly last year, Reese repeatedly has tried to induce the Legislature to prohibit prostitution, now legal in 10 rural counties. It is illegal in Clark and Washoe counties. A man who once frequented brothels, Reese started to crusade against legal prostitution after he became a born-again Christian.In 1993, he spent more than $35,000 of his own money to rent billboards along Interstate 80 in Reno to advise people against going to the then-open Mustang Ranch brothel in Storey County. The signs said, "Warning: Brothels are not AIDS safe." He also was once arrested in Carson City after chaining himself to the door of the building that houses the state Health Division. Reese was convinced the Health Division hid medical results that showed prostitutes carrying the AIDS virus were working in brothels. The division has repeatedly said that no prostitute with a positive AIDS test ever has worked in a legal Nevada brothel. Prostitutes submit to monthly tests for AIDS.In recent months, Reese has tried repeatedly to locate in Colorado a former prostitute from the Fallon area whom he believed showed positive on a test for AIDS. For most of the last 10 years, Reese has called the Review-Journal on a frequent basis to leave long, detailed messages on his latest moves to close brothels. His messages generally were disregarded. In his most recent telephone call, he said that before going to the Old Bridge Ranch he wanted to buy a new tape player for his interview with the prostitute.Previously he had given the newspaper 12 cassettes of his purported interviews with prostitutes on which the language was indecipherable. He said he was convinced that by interviewing Nicole he could prove Burgess was sending prostitutes outside of Storey County on outcalls. Reese said he had talked with police detectives in the Reno area and had been told a prostitute accused Oct. 25 of robbing a Detroit prosecutor was named Nicole.Mike Gruskin, a Wayne County, Mich., prosecutor, said he was robbed by a prostitute sent to his room in John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks by a bell captain. The casino later denied that its bell captains procured prostitutes. Reese said he went to the Old Bridge Ranch on Thursday night after learning that the prostitute accused of robbing the prosecutor was named Nicole. He said he was told at the brothel that a Nicole was not on duty, but would return for work Sunday.The Storey County Commission last year tried to pull the license of Burgess because of his association with Hells Angels members. But a federal judge issued an injunction blocking the removal of his license on the grounds Burgess has a right of free association. Burgess is the nephew of Joe Conforte, the former owner of the Mustang Ranch.Conforte fled to Brazil a number of years ago to avoid prosecution on tax evasion and other charges. The Justice Department earlier this fall shut down the infamous Mustang Ranch after a jury found Conforte was acting as a hidden owner of the brothel. The Old Bridge Ranch is about 100 yards south of the closed Mustang Ranch.Original source: Las Vegas Review-Journal
Latest: Missing Reno man spotted
John Reese, who was reported missing Monday after he did not return home from a meeting Sunday night, was spotted making a bank withdrawal in Sacramento, California Wednesday. Authorities say his photo is a perfect match to the bank’s surveillance video.article # 22/105November 18, 1999 04:54pm
Anti-Prostitution Man Faked Death Source: AP by: Scott Sonner
(RENO, NV) -- An anti-prostitution crusader who vanished, leaving behind his bloodstained car not far from two brothels, resurfaced 10 days later, admitting he faked his death to draw attention to his cause."I'm sorry I put everybody up to this, but I thought it was the only way to do it," said Milo John Reese, 54, who turned up Wednesday night.Police said they may bring charges against him for the stunt.Authorities launched a search for Reese after his car was found Nov. 8 a half-mile from the notorious Mustang Ranch, which was confiscated over the summer by the government. The car had a smashed window and traces of his blood.The leader of the group Nevada Against Prostitution had last been seen by his wife the previous evening, when he claimed he was heading to a meeting at a legal brothel next door to the Mustang.The disappearance was a mystery until last week, when Reese was spotted on a videotape withdrawing money from a cash machine in Sacramento. He turned himself in Wednesday to Las Vegas police.Reese told sheriff's detectives he had tried to make it look as if he had been murdered."We know it is his blood. He put it there," Lt. Doug Gist said Thursday. He added: "We certainly are looking at any potential for criminal charges."Reese said he pulled the stunt to draw attention to illegal prostitution. Prostitution is allowed in a number of rural Nevada counties but not those encompassing Reno, neighboring Sparks or Las Vegas.Reese has been fighting legalized prostitution in Nevada since 1989, when he became a born-again Christian.In 1993, he took out ads on interstate billboards near the Mustang Ranch with the message, "Warning: Brothels are not AIDS safe."He also once chained himself to the door of the building in Carson City that houses the state Health Division.Several years ago, he applied for a license to open a gay brothel, then said he was doing it to bring attention to the evil of prostitution.Former Nevada brothel foe sentenced for flying to Cuba
Associated Press 1/31/2002 04:00 pm
A former Nevada man who once faked his death to promote his crusade against brothels then later crash-landed a plane in Havana was sentenced Thursday to six months in federal prison for taking a stolen aircraft to Cuba.Milo John Reese was told to circle once around the Marathon airport on his first solo flight last July 31 but instead headed south for Cuba. He was arrested when Cuba sent him back to the United States.Reese is eligible for release after the court papers are processed, but he still faces a state charge of grand theft for taking the single-engine Cessna from Paradise Aviation on his fifth day of flying lessons.As part of Reese's federal sentence, he was ordered to pay $45,000 restitution to Paradise's insurance company, which wrote off the wrecked plane.Concerns were raised about Reese's mental competency after he returned from Cuba. Reese, 56, told U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King before pleading guilty that he was not taking any medication.Reese, who worked as a pizza delivery man, has a history of disappearing. He once faked his death in Nevada to draw attention to the state's legalized prostitution.Assistant U.S. Public Defender Celeste Higgins said at an earlier court hearing that Reese was afraid to land once he took off. But Monroe County investigators found a note in his car saying he planned to fly to Cuba.
Wayward pilot takes small plane to Cuba
THE MIAMI HERALD
August 1, 2001 BY JENNIFER BABSON, CHARLES FORELLE AND MARTIN MERZER mmerzer@herald.com
A novice pilot who once staged his own disappearance from Nevadaand most recently worked at a Pizza Hut near Marathon's airport in theFlorida Keys stole a single-engine plane Tuesday and crash-landed itnear Havana, walking away dazed, authorities said.Milo John Reese: Reese's life has been defined by outlandishbehavior and offbeat causes. He once faked his own disappearance duringan anti-prostitution campaign in Nevada.The Monroe County Sheriff's Office identified the wayward pilotof the solo flight as Milo John Reese, 55. He gained attention -- andnotoriety -- in Reno, Nev., as an anti-prostitution crusader. In recentdays, he delivered pepperoni pies for the Pizza Hut in Marathon.``Ed, this doesn't feel right,'' Reese radioed his flightinstructor at Florida Keys Marathon Airport just before he swept towardthe horizon.It apparently was a reference to what Reese claimed would be hisfirst solo landing. And it might have been. Police said Reese had ahistory of mental illness and often pretended to be a pilot.Witnesses in Cuba said the plane attempted to land on a roadnear the town of Cojímar, east of Havana, but hit a rocky patch ofcoast, broke its landing gear and overturned just a few yards from thesea.The pilot walked away in an apparent daze. Police took him intocustody, witnesses said.Fabian Molina Herrera, a 19-year-old student, said the pilotappeared to have scratches on his arms.``He said his name was Juan Miguel, that he was from Florida andhe asked for some water,'' Molina said.FAMILIAR NAME
Juan Miguel is the name of the father of Elián González, theshipwrecked boy whose eventual return from South Florida to Cuba madeheadlines last year.The Cuban government did not immediately confirm Reese's arrivalor detention. ``We're in contact with Cuban authorities,'' said ChrisLamora, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of ConsularAffairs. He declined to comment further.Reese's motive was not known, but his reputation was.``He was not what I considered stable,'' said Rob Grant, whoowns Grant Air Service in Marathon and had rented planes to Reese --until earlier this week, when Grant cut him off.``He was flaky. As we say in the business, he was flying with abroken wing.''Becky Herrin, a spokeswoman for the Monroe County Sheriff'sOffice, said Reese has a history of manic depressive behavior.His wife, Susan Reese of Reno, told police her husband had runaway from home four times, Herrin said.When he left most recently, on June 14, he wasn't taking hismedication, she said.He was staying in room 116 at the 15-room Seaward Resort Motelin Marathon -- $60 per night, according to the owner. Deputies whosearched Reese's hotel room found a book titled How to Fly Cessnas,Herrin said.``One of the things he does in his episodes is pretend he's apilot,'' she said.TUESDAY'S LUNCH
David Patten, who worked with Reese at Pizza Hut, said he hadlunch Tuesday with the novice pilot. Reese had an order of french friesand two Budweisers. He asked Patten to accompany him on a flight to KeyWest.``He didn't say Cuba, no mention of Cuba,'' Patten said. ``Idon't believe he even knew how far it was to Cuba or whatnot.''The answer: 136 miles.The white, four-seat Cessna 172 was rented from ParadiseAviation, according to company officials. The firm is owned by EdSteigerwald, who also served as Reese's flight instructor.Steigerwald spent much of Tuesday night being questioned by theFBI, according to his wife, Ute. Meanwhile, deputies towed Reese'sturquoise Suzuki out of the airport parking lot.Ute Steigerwald said her husband described Reese as ``perfectlynormal'' -- a description at odds with most others -- and confirmed thathe worked at the Pizza Hut, which sits along U.S. 1 on the southernflank of the airport.Grant said Reese was well known around the airport and notparticularly well regarded. He had flown about 15 hours with Grant Air,until two or three days ago, when Grant stopped renting planes to him.``This guy, as far as I was concerned, was a huge liability,''Grant said.In the past, Reese has made headlines in Reno, staging his owndisappearance in 1999 to attract attention to his anti-prostitutioncrusade.Reese apparently tried to make it look as if a brothel owner wasbehind his disappearance.SCHEME UNVEILED
His scheme was discovered when a bank surveillance cameraspotted him making a withdrawal in Sacramento, Calif.Back in Marathon, Ute Steigerwald said Reese ``has flown forabout two weeks, several times a week. He seemed fine, otherwise myhusband would not have let him go on his first solo.''Reese perfectly executed three practice landings -- with hisinstructor by his side -- before being allowed to make his first solo,she said.She said everything seemed fine until the end of the flight.``He told my husband he could not land the plane,'' she said.``He tried to talk him down. He told him: `You're fine. You're100 feet from the runway.' ''Reese headed for the runway, on a northeastward approach on aheading of 70 degrees and at an altitude of 100 feet, witnesses said.But the pilot suddenly pulled up, increased his peed and turned right,eventually heading southwest over the Keys -- toward Cuba.``He would not answer the radio,'' Ute Steigerwald said. ``Hejust stopped responding.''Bryan Hanson, the manager of Paradise Aviation, said Reese hadlogged close to 20 flight hours with his company.On Tuesday, Reese ``had been up 20 to 30 minutes with theinstructor, and then he turned him loose, and bye-bye, he was gone,''Hanson said.`OH, GOSH'``He said softly on the radio something like `Oh, gosh, I'mscared.' ''Patten, the co-worker at Pizza Hut, said Reese seemed bright andliterate.``I was probably his best friend in town, probably his onlyfriend,'' Patten said. Still, he could not explain Reese's action.Patten: ``Is it possible he did it to be famous?''A group of U.S. Navy P-3 Orions, on a mission from the Naval AirStation at Boca Chica in Key West, eventually made visual contact withthe Cessna, according to Navy spokeswoman Susan Barkley.``They did see it and saw that it went into Cuban airspace,''she said.Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the Federal AviationAdministration, said the pilot was not required to register a flightplan with air traffic controllers and would not have been closelymonitored.``Small planes follow visual flight rules, which means they juststeer clear of other planes that they see,'' Brown said.U.S. military officers tracked the plane but did nothing toprecipitate any response from the pilot or from Cuba's military, aspokesman said.``You have to remember, it was going away from the UnitedStates, not toward, so it was just tracked,'' said Maj. Douglas Martin,a spokesman at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in ColoradoSprings, Colo. ``Your concern is not as great as something coming towardthe United States.``But anything that we see going toward the Cuba area is ofcourse of interest to us.'' He said no response was seen from the Cubans. ``We noted thatthey did not scramble MiGs,'' he said.Experts said Cuba might return the plane, but Reese will likelyremain in the hands of Cuban authorities. The reason: no extraditiontreaty with the United States.``What has happened in the past in cases of airliners is thatCuba has kept the hijackers and supposedly has tried them,'' said WayneSmith, a retired U.S. diplomat who served as chief of the U.S. InterestsSection in Havana. ``Some, we know, have been put out to cut sugarcane.''Newspaper: Pilot who crashed in Cuba wanted to kidnap CastroAssociated Press2/14/2002 01:05 pmOther Stories
Reno inspectors step up club inspections after deadly fire in Rhode IslandSparks club faces court charges after exits were blockedSafety not always on minds of local night clubbersCircus story hereSchool’s breakfast program a hit with studentsE-Mail This ArticlePrinter-Friendly VersionSubscribe to the paper onlineA one-time brothel opponent from Nevada who crashed a stolen airplane in Cuba last summer left behind a note saying he intended to kidnap Fidel Castro, a newspaper reported.The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported in its Thursday editions that Milo John Reese left a note in his car last July 31 that read:"I'm going to try to kidnap Fidel Castro. If something goes wrong, tell my wife I love her more than she will ever know."Reese walked away from the crash.Federal investigators later intercepted letters he wrote from jail restating the purpose of his flight, the newspaper reported."I was confused as to why I am in solitary confinement here at Miami Federal Detention, for risking my life to kidnap the world's greatest bastard, Fidel Castro,"Reese wrote in one letter.Reese was released from prison Tuesday after serving a six-month sentence for stealing the plane.Reese formerly lived in Nevada, where he was a vocal critic of prostitution. In November 1999, he faked his own death and left his bloodstained car near the Mustang Ranch brothel after it was seized by the government. He said he staged the death to bring attention to prostitution.Reese also once chained himself to the door of a Nevada Health Division building and applied for a license to open a gay brothel.Celeste Higgins, his attorney, said Reese stole the plane for one reason: he's mentally ill."There was no evidence that this ... was anything other than somebody who was very sick and off their medications,"she said.I will have a story soon about modern day crusaders against LPIN. They come in the form of friend to the industry. Wolves in sheep's clothing! Stay tuned!
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Post by danny888 on Jan 1, 2019 9:09:04 GMT -8
Legal Prostitute & Webmistress Nevada Brothel Girls Tuesday, June 22, 2004 I started on the NBG STD Information Training site today.
It will be open for anyone wanting to learn more about STDs and the prevention of STDs.
I hope that it will be a place that all sex workers will be able to go for education on the subject. I have allot of work to do to it yet. But check it out and let me Know what you think so far.
NBG STD Training.
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Posted by Amber Love @ 5:28 PM 0 comments Thursday, June 17, 2004
So Let Me Get This Strait The Cops Can Get Paid To Have Sex But Prostitutes Go To Jail! Maybe All the Prostitutes Should Get Badges
Please I don't understand! Or maybe I do. The cops solicit while getting paid and have sex while getting paid then arrests a girl for getting paid for him getting laid by her? So Now I get it, you need a badge to get paid for getting laid! Hell why didn't you just say so!
Trying to figure out exactly who is prostituting whom
Jun. 17, 2004 12:00 AM
Maybe the undercover agents thought they were working for Snoop Dogg's posse, rather than Sheriff Joe's. Or perhaps the volunteers who joined sheriff's deputies in the sting operation considered the trip to the naughty massage parlor payback for their less thrilling assignments: Patrolling a local mall over the holidays, for instance.
At any rate, it was Christmastime at the frisky masseuse's last year and more than one of the sheriff's undercover officers allowed himself to be unwrapped.
Which caused Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley to come unglued.
The prosecutor's office announced that it would drop as many as 60 cases of misdemeanor and felony prostitution brought by the Sheriff's Office, applying the ointment of common sense to Arpaio's painful sting.
"If you want prostitution, change the law," an angry Arpaio said Tuesday, "but don't go criticizing my officers who are trying to enforce the law under difficult circumstances." On Wednesday, Arpaio sent forth his many deputies and assistants to reinforce this same argument.
In turn, Romley sent out associates like Special Assistant County Attorney Barnett Lotstein, who told KTAR radio host David Leibowitz, "When you bring cases to citizens, not only is the defendant on trial but the police conduct is on trial. When police cross a line of propriety, jurors do not convict a defendant on that type of behavior."
One of Arpaio's assistants, Jack MacIntyre, charged that Romley had a "thirst for a headline" - as if his boss doesn't.
He also called the prosecutor's decision "hypocrisy" and said that Romley's office knew that Arpaio's undercover agents would probably get naked during the operation and that there might even be some touching. Romley's people said that wasn't the case. Either way, the catfight over cathouses is more than just an entertaining street brawl between Romley and Arpaio. There's a bigger question involved, one that we're struggling with at every level, both locally and nationally.
That is: How much like the bad guys are we willing to become in order to catch and defeat them? Think about the prisoners and terror suspects in Cuba and Iraq. Think of the arguments over how much force we should use against such people if, in gaining information, we save American lives.
An undercover drug agent will buy drugs to get close to a dealer, although he's not supposed to use them. But what if doing such a thing would put him in a position to bust a major cartel?
An undercover officer inside a gang or criminal syndicate might have to stand by and watch crimes being committed, or even commit some himself, in order to build a case against a crime boss.
In the case of the prostitution cases, Romley said that Arpaio's guys went too far. I tend to agree, since this may be the first time in Arizona history that reporters filing public records requests will be able to pick up the police reports at their local Castle Boutique.
The problem with becoming a prostitute in order to catch one is that, at the end of the day, there is still a prostitute on the streets. Both Romley and Arpaio call the episode embarrassing and blame each other for causing it. They say it puts Arizona in an ugly, unwelcoming light.
But just the opposite may be true. At least that's how the Chamber of Commerce could spin it. Right now there is a group of special out-of-town visitors in Phoenix. One might argue that, as good hosts, we are putting on this gaudy display of political intrigue, kinky sex and prostitution simply to make the New York Yankees feel at home.
Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-8978.
Tactics in prostitute sting not uncommon
David J. Cieslak and Emily Bittner The Arizona Republic Jun. 17, 2004 12:00 AM
12 News video: Prostitution sting fallout continues
In the underground world of vice officers, the fine line between right and wrong blurs easily.
Few police departments have specific written policies on appropriate conduct in sting operations. Police supervisors, working in conjunction with city and county attorneys, often decide the boundaries on a case-by-case basis.
But one thing is certain: The decision by Maricopa County sheriff's officials to use nudity and sexual contact in last year's controversial prostitution sweep is growing more common across the nation, and law enforcement experts say it's the criminals forcing them into compromising positions.
"You have to change your tactics and go a little further than you normally would," especially with women who have lengthy histories of arrests, said Charlie Fuller, the executive director of the International Association of Undercover Officers, who has taught hundreds of officers.
"That causes the cops to have to do things that they don't necessarily want to do," Fuller said. "That's the only way they're going to arrest the prostitute."
Maricopa County sheriff's officials redoubled efforts on Wednesday to show that their investigators acted appropriately during a two-month prostitution sting.
County prosecutors on Tuesday rejected all of the approximately 60 cases because sheriff's deputies and posse members used nudity and had sexual contact with suspects.
Jack MacIntyre, director of intergovernmental relations for the Sheriff's Office, said five prosecutors with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office were present at planning meetings authorizing nudity.
Prosecutors also were well aware of the possible sexual contact that would occur during the investigations, dubbed Operations House Call and Destiny, MacIntyre said.
MacIntyre also disputed prosecutors' decisions to reject all the cases, saying Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley's political motives factored into the decision.
"We don't allow a prosecutor to set himself up as the moral compass of the community," MacIntyre said. "That's a usurpation of power and a position by someone who should concentrate on prosecuting cases. If he wants to join a religious order, let him do so. In fact, it would be a wonderful step."
Prosecutors lashed out at MacIntyre on Wednesday, insisting their office didn't condone the "inappropriate contact." Officials refused to allow any of the five prosecutors involved in the sting planning meetings to discuss their recollections.
"They can spin all they want about what was said, where it was said and who was present. We never gave them any type of authorization to conduct the investigation in the manner they did," Special Assistant County Attorney Barnett Lotstein said.
The actions of a few sheriff's detectives compromised the entire operation and would have allowed defense attorneys to pounce on their tactics in court, Lotstein said.
"The chance of a conviction, when the jury hears about the conduct of some of these guys, is in my opinion nil," Lotstein said.
Fuller questioned why prosecutors dismissed all of the Sheriff's Office cases.
"Just to dismiss every one of them, there's something wrong there," Fuller said. "That stinks to me."
In similar cases, defense attorneys have accused the investigators themselves of engaging in solicitation, said David Dusenbury, a retired deputy chief of police who lectures and teaches vice investigations in California.
"If you allow - even prior to a solicitation - this touchy-feeling, . . . at some point that's going to come out in a criminal trial, and it's going to make it very hard to convict people before a jury," Dusenbury said.
If women solicit the investigators for sex, and then the investigators have sexual contact with them, there is a "high probability" the officers have committed a crime, Dusenbury said. All authorities need to arrest a suspect is the actual offer to exchange sex for money.
Across the state and the nation, procedures vary widely in dealing with nudity and illicit conduct by officers in prostitution stings.
In Philadelphia, nudity by officers is allowed in prostitution stings as a last resort.
Philadelphia police Cpl. Jim Pauley said improper touching by a suspect occurs in some cases, but detectives are trained to notify backup officers as soon as enough evidence is gathered.
Sgt. Judy Altieri, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman, said she's unaware of any sting operations in which officers stripped off all their clothing and allowed prostitutes to make sexual contact.
"Obviously there are certain things that have to happen in order to have probable cause to arrest the prostitutes, but the circumstances are very different in every situation and it depends on what kind of enforcement they're doing," Altieri said.
In Peoria, regulations about nudity and sexual contact are not listed in writing. Other Valley agencies, including Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler and Scottsdale police departments, declined to discuss their policies.
Staff reporters Judi Villa, Brent Whiting, Senta Scarborough and Lindsey Collom contributed to this article.
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