Prostitution Sting in Oconee County Nets 9 Arrests

The Oconee County Sheriff's Office and the Barrow County Sheriff's Office Thursday conducted a joint undercover operation using Backpage.com.

Nine people were taken into custody at SpringHill Suites in Oconee County Thursday, charged with pandering and prostitution following an undercover investigation by the Oconee County Sheriff's Office and Barrow County Sheriff's Office. Undercover deputies placed multiple ads for solicitation on the free classified ads website Backpage.com. and also responded to existing ads, Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said. Plans for the operation had been in the works for about two months, he said. "Backpage has come to our attention lately on a couple of different cases, so we decided we'd take a look at it and see if we had an issue here in Oconee County," Berry explained. "As you can see, in a very short period of time, we made nine arrests." …

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Rebecca McCarthy

10:23 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012

From what Sheriff Berry said in the story, he wanted to find out if there were prostitution in the county because someone had been robbed in such a transaction. Apparently, prostitution is alive and well in Oconee. Or perhaps was, until the bust.   more ›

Max Reinhart, UGA German Professor, Charged with Prostitution

Reinhart was arrested in Gwinnett County after a meeting with undercover detectives.

UGA German Professor Charged with Prostitution

Max Reinhart of Athens, Ga., arrested in Gwinnett County.

    University of Georgia German professor Max Roland Reinhart was booked into the Gwinnett County Jail on Thursday night on charges of prostitution and keeping a place of prostitution. Reinhart is A. G. Steer Professor in Goethe Studies in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and a well-known scholar. According to University policy in the the UGA Office of Legal Affairs,"any current employee charged with a crime (other than a minor traffic offense) shall report being charged with such crime to the Office of Legal Affairs within 72 hours of the employee becoming aware of such charge. Failure to report being charged with such a crime may result in appropriate disciplinary action, including termination of employment." According to…

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