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.”