MoCo police take over escort websites

The Montgomery County police department is now in the business of running escort websites to catch the potential customers who use them.

Police said in a statement Monday that the department’s vice section, through plea agreements, “is now operating legitimate Internet sites where ‘johns’ are currently providing place of employment, and contact numbers as if they are communicating with the now defunct service. These contacts are being utilized to arrange ‘john stings’ and identify individuals on the demand side of human trafficking.”