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 ›