Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Pimping and Pandering

No, the headline doesn't refer to the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Instead, its what poor Debra Watts was charged with for running a brothel, with the help of her husband, across the street from a police station. From the AP:

A married couple pleaded no contest to charges they ran a brothel across the street from a Concord police station, Contra Costa County authorities said. Debra Watts, 52, will serve one year of home detention after pleading to three felony counts of pimping and pandering, prosecutor Jose Marin said Monday.

Her husband, Ernest Watts, 63, pleaded to one misdemeanor count of maintaining a house of prostitution, Marin said.

Investigators said the couple ran the brothel for a year in an apartment located a few hundred feet from the Concord police station and used the Internet to solicit clients.

Police raided the apartment in January of 2005, six months after an informant tipped them off in exchange for leniency in a pending fraud case, according to a search warrant affidavit.


Read more about it here.

posted by The Pot @ 5:18 PM
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