Seattle: Craigslist Prostitution Sting

SEATTLE -- Seattle police officers have arrested 110 people in a prostitution sting targeting women who advertised on the Web site Craigslist.org and the men who responded to them.

The department's vice unit created fictional ads and placed them in the personals section of the Web site, as well as in the back pages of the Seattle Weekly and The Stranger newspapers. Men who responded were directed to a furnished Seattle apartment, where they were arrested when they agreed to pay for sex from undercover female detectives.

During the two-week sting, 96 men were arrested for patronizing a prostitute, and 14 women were arrested for prostitution.

"During slow periods, detectives called escorts advertising on craigslist," the police department said in a news release Thursday.

Most of those caught were cited and released, but five were booked into the King County Jail. Those included a registered sex offender, three people on drug charges and one on a weapons charge.

One of the females arrested was 15 or 16 years old, and said she had been forced into prostitution. The department is continuing to investigate.

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