Downtown hotels help prostitution sting net 74 arrests

Published August 14, 2011 4:00am ET



More than 70 people were arrested in a prostitution sting in downtown D.C. over the weekend, with suspected johns and hookers busted with the help of major hotels. The sting, which Metropolitan Police dubbed “Operation Off the Streets,” took place during a 12-hour stretch over Friday night into Saturday morning.

By 6 a.m., 74 men and women had been arrested and charged with prostitution-related offenses, according to a police listserv posting.

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