Are you a Cop?
Syracuse, NY
A sting was nearly stung Thursday when a Syracuse police officer pretending to be a john met a suspected prostitute pretending to be a police officer.
It began when a male undercover officer was flagged down in the 100 block of Lodi Street by a female on the street, said Sgt. Tom Connellan, a Syracuse police spokesman.
Here’s his account of what happened Thursday morning:
The woman got in the car and the two went to a nearby parking lot to negotiate a price for sex.
She asked the cop if he was a cop.
The officer said “no.”
“That’s OK, because I am,” the woman told the officer as she pulled out handcuffs and a two-way radio.
The confused officer became downright bewildered when the woman barked a command into the radio: “Move in!”
The officer, concerned the woman was armed and looking to rob him, forced her from the car.
Moments later, officers who had been monitoring the situation arrived and grabbed the woman at a nearby intersection - with the radio and cuffs.
Who was on the other end of the radio?
To find out, a male officer pretending to be a female, used it:
“Hello?”
“Where are you?”
“Where are you?”
“At the base.”
The base, it turned out, was an alley near the parking lot where police found a second woman waiting in a car.
“We believe these people were going to rob people or extort money,” Connellan said.
He did not know if they had successfully used the scam in the past.
Lisa Greene, 31, of 119 W. Ostrander Ave., was charged with first-degree criminal impersonation, a felony, prostitution and fifth-degree conspiracy.
Elena Irwin, 20, of 1812 Valley Drive, identified as the woman waiting in the car, was charged with fifth-degree conspiracy and possession of a hypodermic needle.
Found in the Post-Standard
Thanks SLY!
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:42 pm
A user named Nate on the website that I got this from had the best title for this one…. “Down-Low 5-0 Nabs Faux Po’ Ho”.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:44 pm
If I was the type to utilize the services of a prostitute, this would scare the crap out of me.
September 24th, 2006 at 1:13 am
had something simular about ten years back. I was moving from KS to AZ and held a KS commision (sworn deputy) and had met with the local Sherriff. he decided to run a roundup in the larger town in the county. I was bait, not being commisioned in AZ I could say I wasn’t a cop.
First night I had five gals removed from my van, the next day I went into the area and watched as a city car parked about two blocks away from the local street, and two gals that I met the night before in my van steped out in the uniform of a hooker not of a cop and locked up their MARKED POLICE CRUSER . City had twenty arested that night including the Johns
September 24th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
wow… we don’t have any prostitutes - probably because our one-street town is only a hundred feet long and the combination police station/public restroom sits right smack-dab in the middle of it, next to the General Store, where they seem to sell an awful lot of web cams, now that I think of it…
September 25th, 2006 at 5:57 am
Leah, so that means any prostitute hanging around downtown would be as subtle as a turd in a punchbowl, eh?
September 25th, 2006 at 9:05 am
Ber, in a town that small, they don’t need a prostitute. Everyone knows where to go for a booty call — even the cop. And it’s not gonna cost ya more than a bottle of (cheap) wine and some candy or flowers — all three if ya wanna have a VERY good time.
September 25th, 2006 at 9:33 am
LOL!!!
September 25th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
So all leahmarie’s neighbors are camming it up?
November 30th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
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