Oxon Hill-Glassmanor, MD
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Auto Seizure | ✓ |
Buyer Arrests | ✓ |
Cameras | ✓ |
Community Service | ✓ |
Employment Loss | ✓ |
Identity Disclosure | ✓ |
IT Based Tactics | ✓ |
John School | ✓ |
Letters | ✓ |
License Suspension | ✓ |
Neighborhood Action | ✓ |
Public Education | ✓ |
Reverse Stings | ✓ |
SOAP Orders | ✓ |
Web Stings | ✓ |
Oxon Hill-Glassmanor is a Maryland suburb of Washington DC, across the Potomac River from Alexandria, near College Park. The unincorporated community within Prince George’s County has about 18,000 residents, an area with substantial prostitution and trafficking activity. The Prince Georges Police District reports routinely conducting prostitution operations, including reverse stings. In August, 2012, a focus on combating demand involved two reverse stings during the month, resulting in the arrest of 24 male sex buyers. A total of 80 arrests were made in the month-long anti-prostitution effort. In December 2012, a similar operation resulted in 29 men on solicitation charges, six women on prostitution charges, one charge of human trafficking and one charge of hindering. These sting operations had led to 227 arrests (including buyers, victims, and pimps) in 2012, mostly in the College Park area, with some in Oxon Hill. Since beginning to tackle the issue aggressively in 2010, police had made 691 prostitution arrests in the same area through December 2012. The identities of arrested sex buyers are released to news outlets.
Key Partners
- Prince George’s County Police
Key Sources
Reverse Stings:
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/dark-world-of-prostitution-turns-to-the-day/ (2012)
- https://www.kabircares.org/police-makes-37-arrests-in-3rd-prostitution-sting-operation/ (2012)
Background on Local Prostitution and Sex Trafficking:
- http://www.gazette.net/more-than-30-arrested-in-college-park-prostitution-sting&template=gazette (2012)
- http://washingtonexaminer.com/dozens-arrested-in-college-park-area-prostitution-sting/
- http://www.wusa9.com/6-More-Arrested-For-Prostitution-In-College-Park-Sting
- http://www.foxbaltimore.com/videos/wbff_vid_14495
- http://www.diamondbackonline.com/article.html
- http://articles.washingtonpost.com/prostitutes-young-women-charles-anderson (2013)
- https://talbotspy.org/human-trafficking-part-2-the-internet-is-a-fertile-field/ (2015)
- https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2-men-arrested-in-prince-georges-prostitution-case/ (2016)
- https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/teenage-prostitution-ring-busted-pimp-claims-to-also-work-as-school-bus-driver (2016)
Background on Sex Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation in the County:
- “Woman, 19, Allegedly Forced into Prostitution; Abduction Suspect Arrested at Garden Inn in Laurel”, Annapolis Capital Gazette, June 11 2010.
- “Takoma Park Man Charged with Running Prostitution Ring in Annapolis”, Annapolis Capital Gazette, August 8 2012.
- “Prince George’s ‘Pimps’ Swept Up in Nationwide Raid Aimed at Underage Prostitution”, D.C. Crime Stories, July 29 2013.
- “Police: 16-Year-Old Girl Held as Sex Slave in Md.”, CBS/WUSA-TV 9, June 27 2014.
- https://www.justice.gov/maryland-us-attorney-s-office-continues-fight-against-human-trafficking-1 (2022)
- https://smnewsnet.com/prince-georges-county-sex-trafficker-sentenced-to-20-years-in-federal-prison-for-the-trafficking-of-two-minors/ (2022)
State | Maryland |
Type | City |
Population | 18049 |
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