Where to find prostitutes in wilkes barre

The men were part of a group of five alleged pimps or more accurately, child sex traffickers who prostituted underage girls and advertised their services through photos on a website. The men were charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking of children, conspiracy to produce child pornography, three counts of production of child pornography, one count of conspiracy to transport and ship child pornography, and three counts of transporting and shipping child pornography.

In interviews conducted for the National Assessment, police department staff said that through the mids, traditional interventions had been tried and found ineffective: arresting prostituted women accomplished little trafficked women soon left for the next stop on the circuit, and local women simply returned to the streets , and prosecution of pimps had been attempted, but never successfully.

In , Wilkes-Barre police tried a new approach, conducting large-scale reverse stings coupled with publicizing the identities of arrestees. In each of the first several operations, they arrested from 50 to men who were issued citations and ordered to pay fines. Arrestee identities were included in press releases which ran in the local Sunday newspaper.

The arrested men could also be ordered not to enter areas of the city known for street prostitution. The number of women known to engage in street prostitution fell from 20 to five, with the rotating circuit survivors gone and the remaining five being local women suffering from severe substance addictions.

Since most police departments hold data no longer than seven years, we cannot verify all aspects of the account of what happened in the city in response to the effort to combat demand.

The existence of the domestic trafficking circuit and the level of police reverse sting activity in the s and s were corroborated by news archives and interviews with police from other cities on the circuit. More recently, smaller scale reverse stings have continued to be conducted. For example, in May , four men were arrested for trying to patronize prostitutes in Wilkes-Barre. She initially refused to meet someone for sex, but she admitted it after learning to write a trooper, saying she needed money to feed a drug addiction, the complaint says.

Police say Jones stayed with three men at nearby Wood Spring Suites on Bear Creek Boulevard, including her jobless boyfriend Rob Hunter, who backed her decision to engage in prostitution. Jones denied being the victim of human trafficking however, the lawsuit states.

According to the lawsuit, a room scan turned up about four grams of crystal methamphetamine, 24 grams of psychedelic mushrooms and a minor amount of marijuana. Investigators say that Hunter was later imprisoned in another case at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, and that his recorded phone calls featured him bragging about having "sold every drug known to man," says the complaint. Court documents indicate Hunter was not charged in the case yet. Jones was charged by police with promoting prostitution and possessing paraphernalia to drugs.

Judge of the Magisterial District Thomas F. Malloy Sr. Also charged with possessing drug paraphernalia was a dazed man who was sitting on the hotel room bed surrounded by hypodermic needles, Daniel Franklin Zeigler, 40, of Danville.