Susquehanna Township, PA
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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 | ✓ |
Susquehanna Township is a township of approximately 24,000 residents, located in Dauphin County in the suburbs of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Among the documented problems associated with the local commercial sex market have been a 2013 case in which a man responding to a Craigslist prostitution ad was robbed. In June 2011, the Susquehanna Police Department conducted a web sting to identify and apprehend local sex buyers. In collaboration with the Dauphin County Adult Probation Office, police made arrangements with men attempting to solicit sex online. A female officer then posed as a prostituted woman and agreed to meet eight johns at a local hotel. As they arrived, they were arrested by law enforcement. To deter other would-be sex buyers, police released the johns’ names and other identifying information to the local media.
In August 2016, a series of advertisements on the Internet led to the arrests of 14 people for prostitution-related offenses at a series of hotels throughout Susquehanna Township. The operations were conducted in response to numerous complaints from area hotel managers saying they were having a problem with ‘sex purchasers.” Police announced the arrests of 11 men, many from the Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg areas, for patronizing a prostitute and charged three women with prostitution. Undercover officers placed decoy ads on the site Backpage.com for “escorts.”
Key Sources
- Reverse stings:
- Background on local prostitution:
- http://www.abc27.com/story/22718377/swatara-township-arrest-3-in-prostitution-bust
- http://fox43.com/2013/06/28/3-arrested-in-swatara-township-prostitution-sting/
- https://dauphin.crimewatchpa.com/swatarapd/3028/arrests/baer-david-bruce
Prostitution-related violence:
State | Pennsylvania |
Type | City |
Population | 21895 |
Location |
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