My Previous Encounters With The Law- Part I
I just realized that on my old wordpress blog that I had told my readers (many who still followed me moving to my new domain) that I had been arrested but I would explain at a later date how I actually everything went down since I didn’t want to interfere with my court proceedings.
So the recent arrest was the first time in two years I had been arrested, and almost to the day. Two years ago I had been arrested twice during the fall/winter, once in October and once in December. The October incident had to have been one of the more crafty vice busts I have heard of and at the same time, absurd.
I had received an email from my Eros ad from someone who was interested in a girl to escort him to a very important business dinner. The email was so intricate with the story I am still shocked it ended up being a cop. The email started out introducing himself like any other client, and went on to say he recently separated from his wife and owns a company that is putting a proposal together to sell his product to Wal-Mart to carry in their stores. The client said he was from northern Louisiana (which is really not that far off from Wal-Mart’s home headquarters in Arkansas) and the meeting would be taking place in Las Vegas and wanted to make a good impression to the company and needed someone to act sophisticated and dress appropriately for the date. I quoted him my normal hourly rate for dinner dates and he agreed it would be fine. He also included in one of the emails that he would like to meet me the day before to make sure I was the right type of girl for the part of playing his wife and update me with personal information about himself that would be useful during the dinner. Not a problem! I made the appointment to meet, his room information checked out and he also agreed to take care of me for the pre-meeting.
So I go to the Bellagio all dressed up in what I would have worn to Sunday school, and meet with the customer (who is a shorter man who looks of Jewish descent) downstairs by the elevator as usual (since security checks for room keys) and we chit chat on the way upstairs. I asked him if anything was wrong since he looked a little uncomfortable but he said he was tired from traveling all day. We go upstairs and try to get into the room and for some reason his door key doesn’t work. Now you may think that’s some big warning sign, but it is something that happens all the time so no red flags went off to me. So he says, “Let’s go downstairs to get a new key at the front desk and talk a little on the way.” I keep informing him I don’t talk downstairs but he keeps asking me little questions to confirm what we discussed on the emails. He said, “So you said $X an hour right? So that would be $XXX for 6 hours? I think that amount of time would cover everything traveling from here to the dinner in my limo.” I inform him that I never ever take rides with clients in limos and that is okay with him. Almost to the front desk he throws in, “Yea so we can go to dinner then maybe come back here to do something else?” I said, “Uh, okay?” I forget the exact words he said but it was alluding to private entertainment but as far as sexual acts go, nothing was mentioned. He goes to the front desk while I wait on the couch under the glass ceiling, and we go back to the elevators. He mentioned right as we got on the elevator, “Yea okay, that amount seems like it will work out. $XXX right? Okay”
The elevator goes up and the doors open. We walk off and two men walk up to either side of me, one flashing some sort of badge down low that I could barely see and the other is grabbing my purse telling me to let go. What did I think was going on? I thought I was being robbed and held onto my purse. I looked back towards the customer and that’s when one of the officers said, “Don’t you realize, he’s one of us, you’re under arrest. We’re Las Vegas metro”. The one grabbing my purse smacks me on my head and yells, “LET GO NOW” and I yell back, “YOU CAN’T HIT ME! I thought I was being robbed!” They laughed at me like I’m an idiot for not comprehending why I was being arrested and barely seeing a badge from a fake looking wallet. I get taken to the room next to where I was supposed to go for the call and in the bathroom are 13 other girls under arrest. I recognize one of the girls from a service I worked for and kept it quiet. I didn’t find out that I had even been charged with soliciting prostitution until I got to jail and saw my paperwork. I was in jail for a short 12 hoursand released on my own recognizance… the shortest time ever.
So what happened with the case? I got a good lawyer, they avoided trial by getting me 20 hours of community service, having to complete an expensive sexual education class of sorts that you do online, and stay out of trouble until I complete the requirements. I actually learned a thing or two from the silly course. My charges were dismissed once everything was completed and was really just a waste of time in the court system for nothing.
I’ll finish with the second incident next time and how this arrest almost got completely screwed up….
Wow. That seems like entrapment to me. And scary, too!
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 pmToo bad they wouldn’t just drop the charges since they didn’t have appear to actually have proof of any crime or attempted crime. Unfortunately, the pigs always lie. If they have tape, and it proves the pigs are liars, they “lose it.” When required to produce evidence by court rules, they will stall, delay, “lose” evidence, fax blank pages, send illegible copies, and every other trick in the book. I’ve seen it all, both as an attorney and as an accused. I wish the public would wake up and realize that the real vice is the supposed “protectors of the public” that are often no more bullies with badges and guns.
January 4th, 2009 at 11:55 amIt’s a bad news, US don’t consider escort as legal business?
January 6th, 2009 at 12:16 amSounds like you just made an agreement for a non-sexual escort, which I thought was perfectly legal. Ironic, that you get busted doing that when I’m sure only a small fraction of your real calls are for that. It’s baloney, of course, like all vice “crimes.” Sorry you went through that, at least you didn’t get any jail time!
January 6th, 2009 at 9:09 amI guess you didn’t ask him outright if he was a cop? You have to, you know..that is one way to avoid entrapment. Yeah, that seemed like entrapment to me.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:00 amWell, I blame the vegas police about clogging the system, really, not the girls. They would just pick up someone else if not them.
I worked extensively for them at one point and had access to every bit of their intel and every investigation they ever did. Really, all they care about is drugs and prostitution and gangs, and virtually everything they do is a complete waste of time and money. And of those three the emphasis on drugs takes about 95% of their energy.
There is some bad stuff in prostitution (basically the pimps and underage girls forced into it) but they are the ones creating most of that situation in the first place.
As for drugs, they get about half their funding through seizures, which I find to be quite a conflict of interest. If anything it should be used for charity purposes. Instead, due to the money, it’s drugs drugs drugs drugs drugs. Pretty much all that they focus on and it’s more than a little disheartening, really.
They do also do some ‘investigation’ into gangs but they do it in such a moronic way that it’s completely useless. Basically, they just interview people and ask if they’re in gangs but they don’t really use the info for anything useful, just to add on to any later conviction’s sentence as a rider.
I have worked in a lot of government related positions due to my field, and honestly all of them are pretty inefficient, but the basic problem with the police especially is not so much they are working inefficiently (though they absolutely are, and are very resistant to changing that, hard as I tried) but that they are pursuing goals that really make no sense when it comes to serving the community. There are some very smart people there (though in the minority), but if I had any sort of power I’d completely gut the whole shebang and eliminate half of the force.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:13 pmthat’s pretty f’ed up. I cant believe theyd make one do community service for freaking charding for a date, and its not like u ever directly agreed to screw him
January 6th, 2009 at 10:55 pmI am a firm believer that escorting should just be legal, but the right wing Christians will never allow it.
January 7th, 2009 at 6:49 amFlyinfox_SATX said, “I guess you didn’t ask him outright if he was a cop? You have to, you know..that is one way to avoid entrapment. Yeah, that seemed like entrapment to me.”
This comment is filed under the dumb things people say about cops and illegal activities. Look at #1 on this entry. No cop has to tell you a cop and if you really believe that then I’m sorry! Not true. That would be endangering the police officer. Lets say I was a drug dealer… dealing a LOT of drugs, and I had someone that I may think was a cop try and buy a lot of drugs from me. Really, do you think if I asked that person “are you a cop” they would answer me, “Oh YEA! You got me! I’m a police officer” because we all know what would happen next: that cop would “disappear”. So no.. that would never happen. I wish but no.
And to follow up the story as well, I could have taken the whole thing to court and just gotten it dismissed in a full trial but the deal I made was to dismiss the charges after doing 2 simple things. Why pay a lawyer and go through a full trial court when it can be taken care of in a simple plea bargain. It all ended well of course or I would have gone to trial, no doubt!
January 7th, 2009 at 9:14 pmnice job taking that off the radar screen-I think you missed your calling!!
January 8th, 2009 at 1:55 pmA cop doesn’t have to say he is a cop if you ask him. A few cops will play fair and won’t lie or perjure themselves especially when it comes to a soliciting case. But the majority will lie like a rug. I think one of the main reasons they crackdown on prostitution in Vegas is because the money in Vegas can be so sweet if they didn’t bust anyone the town would have 3 times as many girls working. Also the underage girls working is one of their excuses to crackdown but why don’t they put all their time and energy into picking up the minor girls rather than women they know are adults? Also girls who steal are an issue especially in the casinos because the casinos wouldn’t really care so much as long as the women working are not stealing or are blatant. Any woman advertising on Eros 99.99999% of the time is not going to steal from a client so why go after girls who advertise on Eros? Well the police arresting people is a numbers game to justify their existence so they are going to lock people up even for minor misdemeanors. But you have to have cops for society to exist if there was no cops at all it would be mass chaos. Most cops who are NOT working vice will not bother a prostitute as long as she is not a minor, a known thief, a junkie/crackhead, a eyesore or a known troublemaker. Most cops who DON’T work vice will almost never bother a girl who is a discreet escort working off of Eros or for a escort service. But it is what it is you just have to be careful, fortunately a prostitute rarely gets jail time in Vegas it usually is just fines, community service and overpriced AIDS awareness classes. If you were never convicted of an offense when you were arrested at the Bellagio 2 years ago then the fact they banned you might be illegal and therefore your recent and last arrest for trespass at the Bellagio might be illegal and beatable!
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