Published: Monday, September 25, 2006
Boy, 14, caught in prostitution sting
YOUNGSTOWN — A 14-year-old boy on a bike was among five males caught in a prostitution sting over the weekend.
Members of the vice squad, Street Crimes Unit and Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force worked the undercover detail Saturday on the South Side. A female officer portrayed a hooker.
The Ellenwood Avenue boy, riding a 10-speed bike around 9:30 a.m., approached the female officer at Oak Hill and Breaden avenues and offered $10 for a sex act, police said. He was taken to a processing point away from the scene and issued a citation charging him with soliciting.
Two patrolmen then took him home and released him to his mother. The boy will answer to the charge in juvenile court.
Detective Sgt. Rick Alli said there has been concern of an increase in illegal sexual activity on the South Side. He said the vice squad will set up more sting operations to get the word out that whether you are practicing the oldest profession or attempting to patronize it, you will be arrested in the city.
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