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Sunday, September 24, 2017

OCPD’s Prostitution Bust Targeted Johns With Online Bike-Themed Posts


OCEAN CITY — The 12 arrestees in a weekend-long prostitution sting operation in Ocean City were lured to the resort by responding to false Internet postings under the guise of fictitious names such as Bike Week Beth and Bike Week Beauty.

The Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) Narcotics Unit and Special Enforcement Unit conducted a prostitution sting operation last Thursday night through Saturday night with the help of the Worcester County Criminal Enforcement Team, the Maryland State Police and Homeland Security. A total of 12 arrests were made, mostly for general prostitution, although two also had drug charges.

The suspects were lured into the sting by responding to fictitious Internet postings in sites like craigslist and Backpage, for example, which advertised the exchange of sexual favors for money. For example, one of the false investigatory accounts was entitled Bike Week Beth, while a different posting was advertised as Bike Week Beauty.

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29 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Dirty Dozen !!! send them off to War !!! like the movie

Anonymous said...

"The suspects were lured into the sting..."

For a consensual act.

If there wasn't compensation involved, it wouldn't be a crime.

Why is buying/selling sex illegal anyway?

Consenting adults. Capitalism. Freedom.

Anonymous said...

That Ain't No Bike week Beauty in the top corner , she
would Scare the Bikers away !!! LOL

What is General Prostitution ? Low Level ? Not the High Dollar Elite ??

Anonymous said...

Liberal snowflakes first.

Anonymous said...

9:44. The only reason a women would agree to sex for money is total desperation. It doesn't get any worse or more disgusting than prostitution. Period.

Anonymous said...

10:11 Total desperation yet an extremely lucrative way to "survive". Not everyone shares your puritanical views.

Anonymous said...

Erhismen is active in the Little League for this area. He would attend games and be an offical! This is disgusting!!

Anonymous said...

Oldest form a self employment. Also, riddle me this, why is porn legal and prostitution not??

Anonymous said...

Maybe the best two sentences of the article:

"In another case, a 48-year-old Salisbury man responded to a Bike Week Beth and through a series of emails explained he wanted to stand in front of the solicitor in his “sissy lingerie” and have her make fun of him and humiliate him. The suspect told the solicitor he did not want to have any sexual relations with her and that his “humiliation” would only take about 15 minutes and he would pay her $100."

Anonymous said...

We need to have at least a level morality to not drop below somewhere in this society.

Anonymous said...

10:11 AM - So is it her choice or yours?

Anonymous said...

Isn't there enough "challenges" going on in South OC to keep LEO's business - rather than luring outsiders in?

Mind boggling some....no most times!!!

Anonymous said...

Is Christen Thomas a dude?

Anonymous said...

10:11 BS!
I visit lots of professionals, and none of them has been forced into the work. I have even heard from a few that they love the power and like sex is why they are doing it.

Anonymous said...

The noise, the disruption, the fatalities, being cut off by bikers who think they own the road, the prostitution. What great things bike week brings to the area.
The entire event is a mess.

Anonymous said...

9:44 the problem with you people is-you aren't living in the real world. You live in a fantasy. Use google and read up on neighborhoods in the Baltimore area plagued by prostitution. 99% of these $5 prostitutes are drug addicted. You can be absolutely sure without any doubts a dealer is lurking. That same dealer who is then selling drugs to others. The hookers are then shooting up leaving needles littering neighborhoods. They use people's yards as bathrooms. People's hoses to rinse off many times stealing something on a porch, in the yard. If you want a real education on this topic go to USA sex guide message boards. You can narrow down to individual states and then areas within a state. Prostitution is not what most think it is. Putting the prostitutes themselves aside it ruins neighborhoods.

Anonymous said...

What amazes me is someone feels the need to have to pay to have sex in OC during Bike Week.
Isn't that sort of like selling sand on the beach?

Anonymous said...

11:39. You have to pay for it because no real woman wants to freely give you her body.

Anonymous said...

10:34, the 48 yr old is a supervisor at PRMC. I wonder if he wears his “sissy lingerie” under his suit. He wanted to be humiliated...well...he’s getting his wish!!!

Anonymous said...

10:23
His father is also an officer with the Ocean Pines police. Didn't stop either of his sons from committing crimes they both have raps sheets a mile long.

Anonymous said...

Can someone please explain to me what “sissy lingerie” is? I guess I’m out of touch.

Anonymous said...

this is bulls##it...how about sting operations to get the drugs and pills off the streets morons!!! people dying everyday and your worried about prostitution.... wake up idiots

Anonymous said...

11:39. You don't have a clue about what women like. Don't you know those women are giving a performance? I can't believe you believe that they enjoy having sex with multiple strange men. Horrifying.

Anonymous said...

You're dumb. Bike week had nothing to do with it, they chose to do this during bike week and made fake profiles portraying themselves as bikers. Learn how to read dumbass.

Anonymous said...

They're all locals. The majority of people who come to OC for bike week are not locals. So therefore bike week had nothing to do with it. Got a problem with Oc? Then move.

Anonymous said...

It is just sex, not murder, let them all alone, they are over 18.

Anonymous said...

comment at 2:26 pm your calling people idiots. There were drugs involved in this one didn't you read the charges it all goes hand in hand. Garrett lives in Ocean Pines maybe the OP Police need to do some drug searching there. but maybe not doesn't he live with OP police officer how did he miss this lol.

Anonymous said...

To look at them, I'm guessing that for most of them, Viagra was the drug of choice.

Anonymous said...

OC Mafia !!