New Brunswick, NJ
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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 | ✓ |
New Brunswick is a city of about 57,000 residents located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well documented in the city and surrounding areas. For example, in 2013, two juvenile girls, ages 15 and 17, were rescued from an internet prostitution ring after an investigation by the New Brunswick Police Department and the FBI. In each case, the juveniles were rescued by police with the assistance of the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency. Multiple cases of targeted violence against individuals engaged in prostitution (including prostituted persons, sex buyers, pimps, and traffickers) have also been documented. For example, in 2018, a 29-year-old New Brunswick man who served as an enforcer for a network of brothels across the state was convicted of multiple counts of murder and racketeering. A jury in U.S. District Court in Newark convicted the man on two counts murder in aiding racketeering, using a firearm for a violent crime, racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, and conspiracy to harbor aliens. According to documents filed in the case and the evidence at trial, the man served as an enforcer for a prostitution enterprise that helped illegal aliens enter the country and employed them at brothels throughout Cumberland, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties. The enterprise used threats and acts of violence – including burglary, assaults, and murder – to expand its territory, thwart rival brothels, exact revenge, punish enterprise members and associates who had been disloyal, and silence people they believed were cooperating with law enforcement. The man acted at the direction of the leaders of the enterprise, two New Brunswick residents who oversaw brothels in New Brunswick, Trenton, Orange, Asbury Park, Lakewood, and Bridgeton. The offender told investigators of his involvement in the prostitution ring to county and federal investigators during interviews that directly implicated him in two fatal shootings. In September, 2012, the offender, armed with a firearm, entered a rival brothel house in Trenton with the intent to rob from the house. During the robbery, one victim was shot in the leg and survived, while another was shot and killed. In a second shooting in January 2013, he entered another rival brothel in Trenton armed with a .40-caliber firearm, attempted to rob people there, and when a fight broke out a victim was shot and killed. As part of the enterprise, the man also conspired to conceal and harbor aliens and aided in their interstate transport for use in the prostitution enterprise. The assault and homicide of trafficked and prostituted women has also occurred in local sex trade activity.
Police responses to prostitution in New Brunswick are driven in part by persistent complaints by residents. To combat the consumer-level demand for commercial sex that drives all prostitution and sex trafficking markets, and thus attracting all related crimes, the NBPD has has conducted reverse stings since at least 1992. Officers occasionally release the identities of the sex buyers arrested during these operations. In 2010, police conducted a raid of two brothels after a month-long investigation. The 2010 raid resulted in 14 arrests of both male sex buyers and prostituted women. In 2011, the police conducted a raid of three brothels, which resulted in 16 arrests. In August 2016, a Rutgers University police officer arrested a man and a woman “on charges of lewdness, trespassing, and engaging in an act of prostitution,” according to the response to a public information request. Both of the people arrested, a 45-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man, hail from New Brunswick. They were both released “on their own recognizance.” University officials confirmed that a Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) officer arrested the two, but did not provide the location of the incident.
Key Partners
- New Brunswick Police Department
- Rutgers University Police Department
Key Sources
Brothel Raids Resulting in Sex Buyer Arrests:
- “Raids on 2 New Brunswick Brothels Yield 28 Arrests”, Newark Star-Ledger, March 17 1992.
- “7 Women, 12 Men Seized in Second Prostitution Raid”, Newark Star-Ledger, April 30 1992.
- “11 Are Seized on Sex Charges”, Newark Star-Ledger, April 29 1995.
- “16 Held in Raid on Alleged Brothel”, Newark Star-Ledger, October 31 1998.
- “New Brunswick Police Raid Two Brothels, 14 People Charged”, Newark Star-Ledger, April 16 2010.
- “Law & Order; New Brunswick; 14 Arrested in Raids on Two Brothels”, Newark Star-Ledger, April 17 2010.
- “Police Arrest 16 in Sweep of Three Alleged New Brunswick Brothels”, Newark Star-Ledger, March 8 2011.
Other Sex Buyer Arrests:
Street-Level Reverse Stings:
- “New Brunswick Targets Prostitution by Threatening to Unmask ‘Johns'”, Newark Star-Ledger, September 11 1992.
- “New Brunswick Prostitution Sting Nets 50”, Newark Star-Ledger, May 12 1993.
Identity Disclosure:
- “New Brunswick Targets Prostitution by Threatening to Unmask ‘Johns'”, Newark Star-Ledger, September 11 1992.
- “Police Arrest 16 in Sweep of Three Alleged New Brunswick Brothels”, Newark Star-Ledger, March 8 2011.
Sex Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation in the Area:
- “11 Arrested in Internet Prostitution Ring; Teen Girls Rescued, Cops Say”, Newark Star-Ledger, June 25 2013.
- “Two Children Rescued from Internet Brothel, Eleven Arrested in Scheme”, New Brunswick Today, June 26 2013.
- “Union County Man Pleads Guilty to Recruiting Minor to Work as Prostitute,” Watchung-Green Brook Patch, May 14 2015.
- “Plainfield Man who Recruited Teen for Prostitution Gets 12-Year Sentence,” Newark Star-Ledger, December 9 2015.
- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-105-new-jersey-operation-targeting-criminal-aliens-and-public-safety (2018)
- https://www.tapinto.net/new-brunswick-prostitution-enforcer-convicted (2018)
Background on Prostitution in the Area:
- “Lawmen Padlock New Brunswick Go-Go Bar”, Newark Star-Ledger, July 28 1990.
- “Prostitute Raids Net 10 Arrests”, Newark Star-Ledger, June 18 1994.
- “Raiders Nab 109, Shut 3 Bordellos”, Newark Star-Ledger, July 6 1995.
- “New Brunswick Snares 8 in Gun and Sex Cases”, Newark Star-Ledger, September 28 1996.
- “Six Arrested in Raid on Alleged Sex Bash; New Brunswick Police Say Hosts Advertised Lap Dances by Hookers”, Newark Star-Ledger, October 6 1998.
- “2 Officers Indicted as Bordello Operators; Prostitution Alleged in New Brunswick”, Newark Star-Ledger, December 5 1998.
- “N.J. Law: Police Deny Running New Brunswick Brothel”, New York Times, December 13 1998.
- “Police Roundup 7 in Prostitution Raid”, Newark Star-Ledger, January 30 1999.
- “Prostitute Testifies 2 Policemen Ran Brothel; Unable to Get Money, Woman Called Police”, Newark Star-Ledger, August 16 2000.
- “Witness Identifies Cop as Brothel Operator; Addict Bolsters State’s Case against Officers”, Newark Star-Ledger, October 12 2000.
- “Officers Convicted of Running a Brothel”, Newark Star-Ledger, October 27 2000.
- “New Brunswick Outreach Programs Target Prostitutes”, Press of Atlantic City, October 29 2000.
- “Metro Briefing; New Jersey; New Brunswick: Retrial Denied for Ex-Officers”, New York Times, March 28 2002.
- “Prison Gates Await Two Ex-Cops who Ran a Brothel; Former New Brunswick Detective Insists, ‘I’m Not Giving Up,’ Effort to Be Vindicated”, Newark Star-Ledger, September 30 2003.
- https://www.tapinto.net/cops-arrest-5-during-prostitution-bust-at-nail-salon (2010)
- https://www.cbsnews.com/new-jersey-woman-arrested-twice-in-1-day-for-prostitution/ (2013)
- https://www.facebook.com/njcom-nbpd-releases-names-of-eight-arrested-in-undercover-prostitution-sting-on (2013)
- “Million-dollar Madam gets 10 years in Prison,” The Daily Journal, September 30, 2014.
Documented Violence Against Individuals Engaged in Prostitution in the Area:
- “Man Gets 4 Years for Fatal Stabbing of Prostitute who Tried to Rob Him”, Newark Star-Ledger, August 17 1989.
- “N. Brunswick Man Cleared in Beating of Prostitute”, Newark Star-Ledger, December 20 1991.
- “New Brunswick Man Gets Prison for Robbery of Prostitute”, Newark Star-Ledger, August 9 1993.
- “Cop Shoots Woman”, Trenton Times, September 11 1996.
- “Officer Kills Woman”, New York Times, September 11 1996.
- “Shooting in New Brunswick Sparks Protest; Crowd Insists on Fair Probe”, Newark Star-Ledger, September 12 1996.
- “State to Monitor Review of Shooting by Cop; Prosecutor Will Sit in on Proceeding in Suspected Prostitute’s Killing”, Newark Star-Ledger, October 4 1996.
- “Grand Jury Clears Cop in Death of Woman”, Newark Star-Ledger, November 14 1996.
- “Lawsuit in Police Shooting”, New York Times, March 11 1997.
- “New Brunswick, Police Named in Wrongful Death Suit”, Newark Star-Ledger, March 11 1997.
- “Embattled Cop Quits the Force Prior to Hearing; New Brunswick Officer Had Been Involved in Shooting Death of a Suspected Prostitute”, Newark Star-Ledger, March 25 1997.
- “Discontent Simmers on Police Insensitivity”, Newark Star-Ledger, October 19 1997.
- “Hung Jury in Prostitute Murder”, Newark Star-Ledger, December 20 1997.
- “Metro News Briefs; New Jersey; Family of Slain Woman Protests Officer’s Pension”, New York Times, May 10 1999.
- “Sentiment Won’t Ease Mother’s Pain for Daughter; Outreach Program part of Agreement”, Newark Star-Ledger, November 2 2000.
- “Woman Pleads Guilty to Strangling in Hotel”, Newark Star-Ledger, January 23 2001.
- “Charges Not Considered in Officer’s Pension; New Brunswick Cop Got Lifetime Disability Despite Fatal Shooting”, Newark Star-Ledger, November 15 2002.
- “A New Witness, A New Trial for Man Accused of Killing Prostitute”, Newark Star-Ledger, March 7 2004.
- “Man’s Third Trial Begins Slaying by Hammer; Carpenter Is Accused of Killing Prostitute”, Newark Star-Ledger, March 18 2004.
- “Carpenter Convicted of Killing Prostitute; Third Trial Ends with Guilty Verdict in 1995 New Brunswick Murder”, Newark Star-Ledger, April 8 2004.
- “Pair Guilty in Stickup of New Brunswick Brothel; New Yorkers Held Customer at Gunpoint and Tied Him Up after He Arrived”, Newark Star-Ledger, May 19 2006.
- “Somerset Man Indicted in Armed Robbery of Prostitute”, Newark Star-Ledger, October 28 2009.
- “Appeals Court Rejects New Brunswick Man’s Efforts to Win New Trial for 1995 Murder”, Newark Star-Ledger, July 11 2014.
- https://www.tapinto.net/new-brunswick-prostitution-enforcer-convicted (2018)
State | New Jersey |
Type | City |
Population | 55992 |
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