Holden, MA
Categories:
Tactics Used |
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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 | ✓ |
Holden is a town of about 17,000 residents in central Massachusetts, near Worcester. In March 2010, a sex buyer was arrested for soliciting a prostituted woman. He had placed an ad on Craigslist seeking a prostitute; undercover officers from the Holden Police Department responded. Details of the operation, as well as the man’s identification information was released to the media. In 2012 a more traditional web-based sting was conducted, when police initiated operations and placed a decoy ad online. That operation resulted in the arrest of another sex buyer, whose identity was also publicized. In February 2018, a web-based reverse sting resulted in the arrest of four sex buyers.
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Web Stings:
- http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2010-03-25/Front_Page/Holden_man_gets_probation_in_prostitution_sting.html
- http://holdenpd.com/News%20Articles/LM%20Prostitution%20Sting%20062112.pdf
- http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2012-06-21/Fire_(and)_Police/Rutland_man_arrested_in_prostitution_sting.html (2012)
- http://www.thelandmark.com/articles/several-nabbed-in-prostitution-sting/ (2018)
Background on Local Prostitution:
State | Massachusetts |
Type | City |
Population | 16581 |
Location |
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