Salem Police Conduct Prostitution Sting

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(SALEM) - Several arrests were made as Salem Police conducted a prostitution sting in the Highland neighborhood on Tuesday, using two female officers as decoys. Before it was over, nine individuals were charged after allegedly soliciting prostitution.

Is this a surprise to residents? It shouldn't be too much of one. The last such operation involving Salem Police involved hookers who were advertising their services on Craigs List out of Portland.

The local joke is that they don't have to go to Portland any more, as craigslist has now added Salem, Oregon as one of their custom sites.

Sgt Jeff Barnes with the department's community response section, says 9 "Johns" were arrested during the operation. Barnes says they launched the operation in response to citizen complaints of Prostitution.

Those arrested included 37-year old Mark Picard, who was taken into custody for a Parole Violation and Prostitution.

37-year old Antonio Perez-Garcia was arrested for Prostitution, and Driving While Suspended.

53-year old Laverne C. Acome was arrested for Prostitution.

51-year old Barron Heath was arrested and also faces a charge of Prostitution.

49-year old Gregorio Salgado-Tapia was arrested for Prostitution.

36-year old Fernando Villegas-Caratachea was arrested for Prostitution

65-year old Fransisco Anguiano-Diaz was arrested Prostitution.

53-year old Glen Wendell Harmison was arrested for Prostitution.

38-year old Darrell Eugene Robertson was arrested for Prostitution.

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Legalize prostitution for these reasons: 1. It will keep our children safer as in keeping perverts out of school yards. 2. It will unburden many wives. 3. Creates revenue for the state in taxes and keeps most prostitutes off welfare.

The game called mouse trap!say cheese.........

Is that called intrapment? do the police keep the drugs thy take in? I knew a OSP cop that grew pot in his upstair house and got away with it! is that fair.....or shoot some1 and gets bye with it......go fig!u look at some1 u go to jail!

Riviera, What Albert Marnell is saying is that once prostitution is legal, the women and men will be protected by law and the police. Prostitutes will not have to worry about being beaten or having forced risky sex. They can go to the police or even get a lawyer. They would be checked regularly for disease and carry an I.D. card. This is not new, many European countries have been doing this for almost 100 years. On a separate note I know women who are beaten by their husbands and are forced to have sex with them that is unwanted and feel that their husbands have become strangers. Once you legalize it there are no pimps to worry about.

The only problem, Albert, is that most prostituted women and children die from suicide, drug addictions, and pimp and john violence. I know several street whores who would gladly marry any man who wouldn't beat them or force them to have risky and unwanted sex with strange men.

A marriage contract of convenience for social, political or economic advantage rather than mutual affection is no different than street prostitution. Either legalize prostitution as an occupation; regulate it, tax it and so forth or prosecute anyone who marrys for anything other than mutual affection. The only problem is that upon close observation most married couples would wind up in jail.

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