Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that our client was caught in a sting operation. Local police working on a regional task force placed advertisements in backpage.com offering sexual services. Our client, a local business owner, married and with a family responded to one of the listings and agreed to meet a woman identifying herself…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: On August 16, 2012 members of the Boston Police Department set up an investigation into Human Trafficking in Suffolk County. An online operation was created using a young looking Asian female advertising on backpage.com for sexual services. The woman claimed to be fifteen years old and quickly received over fifty solicitations for…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: In mid-August 2012, members of the Boston Family Justice Unit, Human Trafficking Division conducted an operation seeking people using the internet for illicit sexual purposes. Officers set up a phony backpage.com ad soliciting men looking for girls under the age of sixteen. This ad listed the girl as being fifteen years old.…
Continue reading ›Concord District Court: A multi-jurisdictional task force began an investigation into suspected prostitution activities at a Lexington, Massachusetts massage parlor. A detective acting in an undercover capacity entered the establishment on June 8, 2012. He was greeted by two Asian females and escorted to a room in the rear of the establishment. There he was…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that our client contacted an undercover officer from the Human Trafficking Division of the police department, who was posing as a 17-year-old girl on a website commonly used for online prostitution. Our client allegedly solicited for oral and straight sex and agreed to meet the undercover officer at a…
Continue reading ›Woburn District Court: On November 4, 2011 members of a local task force were investigating a prostitution ring within the city of Woburn. The officers had received information from a confidential informant that three women were working in a certain establishment was operating as a house of prostitution and advertising itself as a massage parlor.…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that on February 2, 2012 members of the Boston Police Human Trafficking Division along with other law enforcement personnel were engaged in an online prostitution investigation. One of the officers was posing as a nineteen year old prostituted. She was contacted by our client online. An arrangement was made…
Continue reading ›Orleans District Court: Police sought a complaint against our client, a pastor at a Cape Cod church, alleging that he caused severe damage to both sides of a car, including denting the driver’s door, trunk, and hood areas, smashing the front and rear windshields, and snapping off both side mirrors. When police confronted our client,…
Continue reading ›Brockton District Court: The prosecution alleged that our client attempted to pay an undercover police officer for sexual favors. Specifically, it was alleged that after our client had a short conversation with the officer, who was presenting herself as a prostitute, the officer asked our client if he “wanted to party.” Our client responded by…
Continue reading ›Boston Municipal Court: The prosecution alleged that on July 19, 2011 Boston Police Detectives were conducting an investigation into prostitution activities using backpage.com. Officers contacted and identified a female who was heavily entrenched into advertising her services, fees and locations for conducting business. An undercover operative learned that the woman was from Sacramento, California and…
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