Long Beach : Undercover Prostitution Sweep Leads to 82 Arrests
Long Beach police arrested 82 women and men in an anti-prostitution undercover operation along Pacific Coast Highway and Anaheim Street earlier this week.
From 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday, 32 officers worked the strips between the Los Angeles River and Termino Avenue.
Male officers posed as potential customers and drove around in vehicles that ranged from a limousine to an airport shuttle bus, according to department spokeswoman Linda Fierro. Two female officers posed as prostitutes in the department’s “John program,” she said.
The officers arrested 62 women and two men suspected of prostitution. Police also arrested 15 men on charges of soliciting prostitution, one woman on charges of lewd conduct, one man suspected of drug dealing and one man on suspicion of displaying a firearm.
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