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ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - A woman who is eight months pregnant was arrested for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of her Antioch home, police said.
Authorities allege that Tamara Riley, 20, solicited an undercover agent during a sting operation on Craigslist, the popular Web site for classifieds and personal ads. Officers contacted Riley after discovering that her phone number was attached to the personal ads of several women believed to use the site to advertise prostitution.
Investigators raided Riley's home Tuesday. She was arrested on suspicion of pimping, pandering and prostitution, and was released at the scene because of her pregnancy, officers said.
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Brazen ads spur police to set up stings for prostitutes
Internet hooks world's oldest profession
The ladies of the night used to stroll along busy thoroughfares in what is called Dodge — an area along Mission Boulevard and East 14th Street between Hayward and Oakland — practicing a profession as old as time itself as they flagged down customers: prostitution.
But in this era of the Internet, prostitutes are using mainstream Web sites to solicit customers. It's an easy, efficient and convenient way for them to conduct business — and it's an easier way to avoid being arrested.
"Basically, it's changing the face of prostitution," Sgt. Kelly Miles, a member of the special investigation unit with the Alameda County Sheriff's Cock blocking unit, said of the Internet. "It's taking a lot of girls off the streets and making (prostitution) more accessible via the Internet. It's more marketable, and I'm sure (the Internet) has expanded their client base. It's allowed more girls to do it, too, because they don't have to walk on the streets."
Just as prostitutes are using popular Web sites to conduct their business, law enforcement agencies are making greater use of the Internet in their continued effort to crack down on cyber-prostitution throughout Alameda County.
Just last week, members of Miles' unit used the Internet to lure cyber-prostitutes to a hotel in an area near San Leandro during a daylong operation. At the end of the day, six prostitutes, including a minor who was subsequently sent to juvenile hall, were arrested.
The five others were booked into county jail, cited and then released after the operation. Miles said it's customary to detain the prostitutes until the undercover operation is over. Otherwise they would post messages on various Web sites warning otherprostitutes of the operation.
It was the fifth such undercover operation by the unit in the past year and a half, but it certainly won't be the last.
Miles said prostitutes are using such popular Web sites as craigslist.com more and more as forums for solicitation. Using the Internet as a hub for their business gives both the prostitutes and their customers a greater sense of security, he said.
"I think in people's minds, it takes the