Federal air marshal charged with raping woman at SeaTac hotel

A 30-year-old federal air marshal is being held in jail on $250,000 bail on a charge he raped an escort at gunpoint in a SeaTac hotel while wearing his badge.

By Christine Clarridge

Seattle Times staff reporter

A federal air marshal is being held in jail on $250,000 bail on a charge he raped an escort at gunpoint in a SeaTac hotel while wearing his badge.

According to documents charging Lecheton “Omar” Settles, 30, of Herndon, Va., with first-degree rape, he threatened to use his position as a law-enforcement officer and his government-issued firearm to commit the rape.

Police and prosecutors say that Settles, who was in town for official business, called an escort service on Friday from his room at the Marriott.

Australia: No money, no honey

April 21, 2010

Paying for sex is no longer a male preserve. In the final part of our series, Mary-Anne Toy explores the world of male escorts and why more women want their services.

SHE is well educated, well spoken and very well groomed: an attractive blonde in her 30s used to men hitting on her in bars. So why did ”Eva”* pay a man to have sex with her? And how did that encounter lead her, a single mother with a full-time professional job, into secretly running a male escort business?

About two years ago, fed up with internet dating and the desultory randomness of the bar scene, but missing male company, Eva toyed with the idea of using a male escort.

Sydney: Male escort lured to hotel room for fake ‘hit’

BELLINDA KONTOMINAS COURTS
April 9, 2010

WHEN Paul Dunshea was called to a room at the Hilton Hotel, the male escort had no idea he was about to be the star in a prime-time current affairs show.

Mr Dunshea, who is now a full-time student and goes by the name Aalex Valentino, thought it unusual that there were two men in the room, but he complied when he was asked by one of the men to sit next to him on the lounge chair. ”I did so and then he told me that he was there to murder me,” Mr Dunshea told the Supreme Court.

The escort’s ”clients” were the A Current Affair reporter Ben Fordham and his producer, Andrew Byrne.

Houston cops crash Christmas party for hookers, johns

by Jeff McShan / 11 News
Posted on December 15, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Updated Tuesday, Dec 15 at 10:39 PM

HOUSTON — Houston police crashed a Christmas party for high-priced call girls and their customers last week at a Midtown club called Element.

Tuesday night, police were back out rounding up the men who allegedly paid for sex at the party.

“This is a party that was organized on a Web site that caters to mainly prostitution,” said Lt. C. Vasquez with HPD’s vice division.

Members of the site called ASPD.net chat about Houston escorts and even write reviews. Warnings are posted about police activity, and which escorts can be trusted.

Members must be invited to join, and then a check is done to verify their employment. Operators wanted to make sure no cops were allowed.

A Few Questions for Belle de Jour, Call Girl and Scientist

November 20, 2009, 1:30 pm
By RYAN HAGEN

In 2003, a young American woman in London studying for her PhD. ran into money trouble. To support herself while writing her thesis, she joined an escort service. Under the assumed name Belle de Jour, she started to blog her experiences. That blog led to a series of successful, jaunty memoirs beginning with 2005’s The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl. The books were adapted for television in the U.K. (where she is portrayed by Billie Piper) and later in the U.S. All the while, as Belle de Jour garnered more attention — and criticism, for portraying prostitution as a glamorous career choice — the woman behind Belle de Jour struggled to keep her anonymity. This month, as an ex-boyfriend threatened to blow her cover, Belle approached one of her critics, the London journalist India Knight of the Sunday Times, to reveal her identity. That resulted in an article, published Nov. 15, outing her as Dr. Brooke Magnanti, 34, a neurotoxicologist at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health. This week, she agreed to answer a few questions for the Freakonomics blog, about her work as a call girl and as a scientist.

Jessie Foster- Do you know her???

JESSIE
DO YOU
KNOW HER???

Jessie Foster 2005

Call: Detective Dave Molnar of the North Las Vegas, NV USA police department at 702-633-1779
or: Constable Darin Rapell of the RCMP, Kamloops, BC Canada office at 250-828-3293
or: your own local 911, Police or Crime Stoppers with info to help us find Jessie,
she has been missing since she was 21 years old, over 3 ½ years, since March 29, 2006.
www.jessiefoster.ca

PA: Police: Ex-Nova Dean Customer of Prostitution Ring

By TAMARA VOSTOK
Updated 3:30 PM EDT, Fri, Jul 3, 2009

Police investigating a prostitution ring in Chester County relied on two customers for information, one of whom was Mark A. Sargent—dean of Villanova University School of Law, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Police raided the Kennett Township home on November 25, 2008 after a six-week surveillance of the house, the paper reported.

Between Noon and 1 p.m., Sargent was at the home and paid a woman, C M, 32, $170 for 35 minutes of pleasure, according to a police report. Sargent saw an ad on Craigslist, was curious and responded, the report noted.

VA: Home delivery prostitution alleged in Vienna

Fairfax County
By Gregg MacDonald
Source: Fairfax County Times
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 2009

In today’s world of ultra-convenience, practically any goods or services can be delivered directly to your home. That includes prostitution.

On June 11, Detective James K. Sheeran of the Town of Vienna Police Dept. noticed a suspicious vehicle bearing a temporary Maryland license plate parked in front of an apartment complex on Cedar Lane in Vienna. He noticed that there was a person in the driver’s seat. He returned later on a routine patrol to find the same vehicle parked with the driver still inside.

Court documents say that Sheeran interviewed the driver and “learned that the driver had transported a female” to the apartment complex “for the purpose of prostitution.”

Knoxville leads state in prostitution busts

KPD files charges at double the reate of Nashville, five time Chattanooga police
By J.J. Stambaugh (Contact)
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Knoxville led the state last year in the number of per capita prostitution-related arrests and citations, with police charging offenders at a higher rate than in larger cities such as Nashville and Memphis.

In 2008, Knoxville Police Department officers filed charges at roughly double the rate of police in Nashville, slightly more than those in Memphis and at five times the rate of police in Chattanooga.

Johns on the spot

From Saturday’s Books section
Men need to stop kidding themselves: Victor Malarek’s books makes it clear that when they buy sex, they perpetuate the system that enslaves millions of women and children
Reviewed by Natalie McLennan

Last updated on Friday, Jun. 26, 2009 05:24PM EDT

In The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men who Buy It, Victor Malarek explores the following theory: Men looking to pay for sex plus a money-driven society equals women and children treated as commodities and trafficked in a fashion similar to drugs and guns. The truth, exposed by his thorough research and methodology, is incredibly painful. Malarek uses these victims – from children in Asia sold by their parents to runaways throughout the United States and Canada who become truck-stop prostitutes enslaved by pimps – as the backdrop to highlight the callousness of the johns who rent their bodies.