Police arrest 9 women in Christmas Eve prostitution sting

12/25/2010 10:18:02 AM

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - While many people were making their final preparations to celebrate with family and friends, police were on the streets early Friday morning rounding up suspected prostitutes.

According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, nine women were taken into custody for soliciting prostitution. Officers also arrested a man on a marijuana possession charge.

The women arrested ranged in age from 19 to 53.

Marie Z. Thomas, 36, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution.

Jennie M. Jones, 53, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution.

Jamie M. Wook, 31, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution.

Nicole I. Lucas, 27, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution and as a fugitive from probation and parole.

Jaybon J. McCray, 19, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution.

Loretta Bethley, 48, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution, crime against nature and as a fugitive from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office for possession of cocaine.

Bonnie A Moore, 45, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution.

Jennifer Watson, 36, of Central was charged with prostitution.

Candace Heinzen, 48, of Baton Rouge was charged with prostitution.

Rodney Joseph, 39, of Baton Rouge was charged with felony possession of marijuana.

Police made the arrests in the Plank Road, Scenic Highway, Choctaw and North Street areas.

They were all booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Officers added the arrests were part of an ongoing effort to combat street-level crimes around the city.

wafb.com

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steve229•14 yrs ago

On Christmas Eve? Where's the Holiday spirit?

Dudester•14 yrs ago

They were trying to spread spirit, and their legs.

Sad. They must be addicts.

Player11•14 yrs ago

I feel this persecution of sex workers is like racism. It needs to be stopped so people can enjoy the freedom this country is supposedly about.

mmdv26•14 yrs ago

I wonder what the "crime against nature" that Loretta was charged with involved?

georgmicrodong•14 yrs ago

Based on the Wikipedia entry (always the most accurate source, of course), probably something to do with an animal or another woman.

en.wikipedia.org

As an example, Louisiana Revised Statutes (R.S.) 14:89 provides:

A. Crime against nature is:

    (1) The unnatural carnal copulation by a human being with another of the same sex or opposite sex or with an animal, except that anal sexual intercourse between two human beings shall not be deemed as a crime against nature when done under any of the circumstances described in R.S. 14:41, 14:42, 14:42.1 or 14:43. Emission is not necessary; and, when committed by a human being with another, the use of the genital organ of one of the offenders of whatever sex is sufficient to constitute the crime.
    (2) The solicitation by a human being of another with the intent to engage in any unnatural carnal copulation for compensation.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.

Louisiana's legislature enacted its crime against nature law in 1805 and revised it 1807, 1896, 1942, 1975, and again 1982.[3] The 1942 act took the present definition from Â§ 50 of the 1937 proposed Illinois Penal Code since it was more explicit than the former Louisiana statute. In its present form, R.S. 14:89 is part of title 14 of Louisiana' criminal code and categorized in section 89 as offenses affecting the public sexual immorality.

On April 28, 2005 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal of Louisiana ruled unconstitutional the parts of the statute that criminalize adult consensual anal and oral sex.

georgmicrodong•14 yrs ago

Note that R.S. 14:41, 14:42, 14:42.1 or 14:43 apparently refer to rape, aggravated rape, and forcible rape, which are charged as Crimes of Violence, rather than Crimes against Nature.

So anal sex is another possibility.

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