According to the Strib, sex sells, and all the arrests and police sting operations just don’t seem to be dissuading the “Johns” from their sex-for-sale endeavors.
Brad Sperling, 45, a veteran assistant coach with the White Bear Lake High School girls’ hockey team, became the latest to learn that anonymity can fade quickly when one is snared in a sting operation. He was nabbed Jan. 12.
Before him, there were the arrests of a south suburban pastor and of state and north suburban political figures. A Star Tribune review of six stings conducted since Jan. 14, 2009, reveals a total of 66 men arrested during the hotel sweeps. Only three were St. Paul residents.
This week former Prior Lake minister John Kameron Erbele, 36, pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting a prostitute. He will, however, serve no jail time in the misdemeanor conviction — simply probation, counseling, 24 hours of community service and “john school,” an educational program for men who solicit prostitutes.
What I really want to know, though, is…
is this really him? Oh, my!
And in Bloomington, police cracked down on prostitution at a therapeutic massage business. “According to a search warrant, an undercover cop was offered a sex act from the woman massaging him here last November.”
Happy endings!
10 Reader Comments
8:58 am
This post should have told us the lengths some men will go to just to get a little tail.
9:42 am
Legalize and regulate this and weed, deficit gone in…….3 days.
11:12 am
While legalization and regulation may bring in lots of money, it won’t solve most of the problems associated with prostitution. Las Vegas has serious issues with sex trafficing both underage American girls and foreign girls/women. These sex workers are not working by choice, but as slaves. I can provide links if people are interested. Legalization may stop the problems with Johns, but it doesn’t stop the brutality and violence associated with prostitution.
11:22 am
I guess I’ll just keep buying her dinner, listening to her talk about her job and pretending…
11:25 am
@baker, yep.
11:36 am
KC, if these (legal hooker)organizations were forced to register and were regulated/tested, could you honestly say it would be worse than it is now? At least law enforcement would have an idea of who is doing what, instead of no clue. Then the legal ones would be known, and more energy focused on those that are not acting legally. Couldn’t hurt, is all I’m sayin.
11:54 am
No, I never said it would be worse. I said it doesn’t solve any of the problems on the womens’ side of the issue. It just allows Johns to get off without penalty. It would be much better for those that registered, but my understanding of Nevada is that there are still a lot of abuses of the girls in legal establishments and they forge documents for underage girls. I just think that legalization isn’t the answer to all the problems. It is a start though, I will give you that. But I’d prefer to see johns serve real prision time and be charged as sex offenders.
12:18 pm
Well, it could solve some of the problems for the women’s side, couldn’t it?Each woman that has had her age and willingness validated, could be issued a bar code on her neck, that could be scanned before the exchange of money took place. Oh my god I am so kidding. That’s horrible, baker.The more I think about it, it probably isn’t a great idea to legalize it on a large scale. Prostitution is very dangerous for the woman involved. People would find workarounds and loopholes to the regulations, and in the end it would probably just be more harmful to women, if more johns started indulging simply because it was legal. Plus, it would really never fly in politics….
12:58 pm
The Bloomington “massage parlor” owner’s name: Lei Fung PoonTrue story…
9:36 pm
cute