"Lieutenant Karen Hughes:" "Vegas is very different than, uh, a lot of other cities in that, you know, people come to Las Vegas." "It's a part of the tourist corridor, both downtown and on the strip, and the tracks are just an extension of those tourist areas." "You know, a vast majority of the folks that come here believe that prostitution is legal." "It must be." "We're in Sin City." "But the bottom line is, it's not." "Tonight we're going to be using a taxi, one of the many UC vehicles that we use when we pose as a regular trick." "That taxi's going to try and solicit acts of prostitution from the girls that are working the tracks." "Once she gets into the cab, we'll go from there." "(Over radio):" "All right, I see the, uh, female, and I'll try to get her in the, uh, complex right here on the southwest corner." "We've identified one of the girls that's in the southwest corner, and they're going to make a run on her." "(Over radio):" "She's in a white top." "Long, uh, brown hair, uh, kind of youngish looking." "Hughes:" "No, she's in here in the parking lot someplace." "(Indistinct radio dispatch)" "Yeah, I see her and I'll be off." "Hey, how you doing?" "Hey, I'm gonna go on my lunch break pretty soon and, uh, I was just looking for something really quick." "(Continues indistinctly)" "Well, sex is a hundred." " Sex is a hundred?" " Mm-hmm." "So we can just drive down there." "Okay." " So, what's your name?" " Um, Patrick." "Patrick?" "Yeah, nice to meet you." " I'm famous." " Oh, famous?" "Are you very famous?" "Uh... (Laughs)" " I'm working on it." " Working on it?" "Yes." "Do you do, like, any porn or anything like that?" "No." "That would be great, though." "So $100." "It's a good deal?" "Is it okay if I touch you?" "Yeah, uh, do you want to just do it out in the private..." "Hughes:" "Right now she's just jumped into his car, and she's using some screening tactics that are very common with these street girls, um, but it's not really going to matter because we've already got the, the solicit down." "Keep going straight." "Oh, hold on." "But my place is right here." "No, keep going straight." "But the place is right over here." "Oh, wow, sarge." " Don't text." " I wasn't trying to." "You're under arrest for soliciting prostitution." "Hughes:" "What do you got on you?" "Just, um, my boobs." "Hughes:" "I understand your boobs." "What else you got?" "What else do you got on you?" "Everything's in my purse." "Hughes:" "Okay." "What's your name?" "Other than famous, what's your name?" " Kiandra." "Hughes:" " Kiandra?" "Okay." " When was the last time you were bled?" " Hmm?" "Hughes:" "When was the last time you were bled?" " Bled?" "Hughes:" " Yeah?" "What do you mean bled?" "Hughes:" "Did they test you for HIV, when?" "Yeah, it was, like, four days ago or five days ago." "Hughes:" "Okay." "They pick you up here out on the Tropicana track?" "Where'd they pick you up at?" "I was on Boulder highway." "What you doing way up here?" "You get around, man." " You went all..." " It's kind of crazy over there on Boulder right now." "What you mean by that?" "You guys got me on Boulder, so why would I go back over there, you know what I'm saying?" "Now we got you over here, so where are you gonna go tomorrow?" "Shoot, it's okay." " I'll go to cali or something." " Go to Cali?" "Hughes:" " Cali?" " I don't know." "Hughes:" "We like that." "Well, you ain't gonna see me down there." "Why?" "Hughes: 'Cause he's not freelancing off-duty." "(Famous laughs)" "Mm-mm, that's why." "It's cool." "Hughes:" "All right." "Come on, let's go." "Hughes:" "She's going back tonight only because she decided it was too hot down on the Boulder highway track, so she came up here on the Tropicana track, only to find that we work both those tracks, so we're everywhere, everywhere in Vegas," "everywhere." "We've got a girl walking westbound." "We're going to get the guys in position to take her." "(Over radio):" "I see her, and I'll, uh, go south with her." "Hey, how you doing?" "We could have a really good time." "I can't." "There's someone else that might." "Is she, is she close by?" "Hughes:" "She was a little bit hesitant." "We've got a lot of black and whites in the area, so she sees the police activity." "She's not, uh, not interested in having, uh, sex." "However, she is willing to hook him up with, uh, one of her girlfriends that just lives a couple blocks down the street." "What does she look like?" "She's tall and skinny, she's older." "She's here right now." "Oh." "Hughes:" "She'll end up going to jail tonight if this all pans out for aiding and abetting prostitution as well." "Just come walk through the parking lot and come to my room." "I, I can't." "What do you mean you can't?" "'Cause Mike's looking for me right now." "Just get your ass over to my room." "I'm telling you right now, Laurie, if you don't call" " If you don't come over, I'm gonna be mad at you." "How much money is this going to...?" "(Woman laughs)" "How much money is it going to cost?" "What do you want to do?" " I-I just want a quick..." " Okay, how much do you got, $30?" "$30's cool." "Cool." "All right, and you're not a cop or anything?" "No, no, no cop, yeah." "Well, we can just go in the car or wherever." "Or you want to go to my room?" "Uh, we can do it in the car-- Back here if you want." "Wherever you want." "Is that okay?" "Yeah." "Go right." "Oh, can we just do it back here?" "No, I don't want to go over there." " Oh, hold on, let me just go around..." " No, then let me out." "Okay, give me one second, let me just make a u-turn." "All right, because I've got to get out." "You know, she's already screaming and yelling over there." "She's screaming and yelling?" "Yes." "What, where are you going?" "You know, I've got to go get her." "She's right there." "You're under arrest for soliciting prostitution." "For what?" "I did not solicit him." "Okay." "He tried to solicit me." "Hughes:" " How old are you?" " I'll be 55." "Hughes:" " You'll be what?" " I'll be 55." "Hughes:" "You'll be 55?" "Mm-hmm." "Hughes:" " How long you been doing this?" " Too long." "Hughes:" " What's too long for you?" " Too long." "Hughes:" "When's the last time you went to jail?" "Hmm, about a month, I think, ago." "Hughes:" "Who'd you get, who'd you get picked up by?" "Hmm." "Hughes:" "Vice?" "Yeah." "Hughes:" "Do you know why you're going to jail tonight?" "Because he propositioned me." "Hughes:" "He propositioned you?" "I heard him." "Hughes:" "What did he proposition you for?" "I don't know, it was, like, $30." "Hughes:" "For what?" "I don't even know." "Hughes:" "You don't know?" "No, I asked him to take me home." "Hughes:" "Did you agree to $30?" "For $30?" "No, across" " Just over there." "Hughes:" "What's that?" "Just over there to my house." "Hughes:" "Well, it was just across the street." "Why did he need to drive you over there?" "I don't know, the girl told me to come in." "I thought she was coming in." "Then she jumped out." "Hughes:" "Wow, what a cluster, huh?" "And she jumped out, yeah." "Hughes:" "You jumped in, she jumped out." " Yeah, and I didn't even..." "Hughes:" " And you're going to jail." "Wow, go figure that." "We took famous tonight, earlier." "I wish she could see and we could introduce her to Deborah because she might be able to picture herself 30 years from now if she makes it that long 'cause it's nothing but a dead-end road here." "Officer Eric Vaughn:" "I've been doing this for about three years, and when I was going through the academy, I was told by another officer that this is like having a front row seat to the greatest show on earth." "And-and he wasn't kidding." "I get to be a player in some of the greatest comedies and dramas that you'll ever see in your life doing this." "Yeah, we got a white car parked right up here." "I'm gonna go check that out." "(Indistinct radio transmission)" "Just saw this car just kind of sitting in a spot where a car wouldn't normally sit." "Couple of people in it." "See what they're up to, 'cause this isn't a normal place to be." "(Door bell dinging)" "We..." "I was waiting on my mom." "Vaughn:" "Where's your mom live?" "She's coming..." "I was..." "She works here, but I had just missed her." "Vaughn:" "She works where?" "She works... she just left here." "I told him to pull up in front of the building, but he parked right there." "Vaughn:" "Okay." "Do you have an ID on you?" "You want my ID?" "Vaughn:" "Yes, sir." "He wants your ID." " I guess I just, uh..." "Vaughn:" " Where y'all stay at?" "Right around the corner." "Next to the church right there." "I just stay right there." "Vaughn:" "Your mom couldn't just meet you there?" "Hop out of the car with me real quick." "I want to talk to you, okay?" "You're not under arrest." "You're not in trouble or anything like that." "I just want to talk to you for a minute." "Okay." "Vaughn:" "Four-44, you got another unit that can meet me over here?" "Step back here to my car." "(Over radio):" "Four-43 disregard." "Meet four-44 at second and Jackson?" "Vaughn:" "How do you say your name, man?" "Hmm?" "Vaughn:" "How do you say your name?" "John." "Vaughn:" "John?" "Yeah." "Vaughn:" "Turn around and face me so I can watch her, too." "What's going on?" "'Cause I know whatever she's telling me is not true." "Buckle up your pants for me there." "Huh?" "Vaughn:" "Buckle your pants up for me since they're... no, buckle them." "Okay." "Vaughn:" "Fasten them." "They're falling off." "I don't want your pants falling off right here, okay?" "Thank you." "Vaughn:" "Okay." "Go sit right down there on that curb." "Okay." "Vaughn:" "And we'll continue this conversation with you there." "(Woman speaks indistinctly)" " What's her name?" " Dawn." "Vaughn:" "Because that's not matching up with what she just told me, and you got your pants down, and you're sitting on some back road somewhere." "And apparently, you can't remember the name she just told me, and apparently, you don't think I don't see what's going on here." "Yeah, I'm sorry, sir." "I can tell you, too, I am appalled." "Vaughn:" "So tell me the truth then." "She... when she call me, she say that they want to go to her mama's, but first she say that let's stay here a little bit." "Uh, she want me to have sex with her, but I say no, I don't..." "I don't want it." " That's why... that's why..." "Vaughn:" " You didn't seem much like you didn't want to." "Your pants were undone." "To me, that's a pretty good indication that you do want to." "Yeah, but I told her that I don't want it." "Then, she-she force me." "She force me to do it." " So..." "Vaughn:" " Okay." "I need you to stand up for me real quick." "Okay." "Vaughn:" "Turn around, put your hands behind your back." "You're not under arrest, but I'm going to put you in handcuffs so that you can't run off until I'm done here, okay?" "I'm not gonna run." "I'm not gonna run." "Vaughn:" "Let me see your hands." "What, you drunk or something?" "Vaughn:" "I'm going to have you come talk to me in a minute, too." "I just don't want him running off." "Sit down right there on that curb." "All right, you get up, we're going to have a problem." "I don't want to." "Vaughn:" "All right?" "Okay." " Tiara?" " Yeah." "Vaughn:" "Hop out of the car for me." "Mm-hmm." "Vaughn:" "Step right over here." "You don't have any weapons or anything on you, do you?" "(Tiara mutters)" "Well, I guess if you did, I'd know." "Have a seat right there on that bench." "You want to tell me what's really going on, or do you want to maintain your story?" "You..." "I know him." "Well, he comes down here, and he picks me up for dates every Friday." "And I know he came to pick me up from my house." "I ain't going to lie to you." "Vaughn:" "Just right over there?" "Yeah." "I tell you the truth." "He comes down here every Friday." "Vaughn:" "Okay." "Ain't no sense in lying, but that's not what I was doing right there." "Vaughn:" "You've already lied to me then." "How?" "Vaughn:" "You told me your mom was coming to meet you." "But that's... she was." "Vaughn:" " But then you tell me..." " She was..." "I'm going back home." "I'm going back out of town." "I stay..." "I came from where he come from." "And he comes down here, and he picks me up, and then he takes me." "I ride back with him out of town." "Vaughn:" "Go over to this officer, and we're going to sit in the back seat of his car for a minute." "See this car sitting here and, uh, I pulled up behind them." "They tried to leave, and then when I asked him to exit the vehicle, he gets out, and his pants are about to fall off 'cause they're unbuttoned." "So, pretty good chance that we got a code 15, uh, a prostitution deal going on." "She tells me his name sitting in the passenger seat of the car, where he can hear it, and he still doesn't know what her name is." "Officer Jeremy Wright:" "What were y'all doing in the car?" "I was... actually, you know, I was seeing my girlfriend, so..." "Wright:" " She's your girlfriend?" " Yeah." "Wright:" "Oh, okay." "She's your girlfriend, but you don't know her first name?" "He showed me his ATM." "He said, well, I give you $200 if you go home with me and stay with me." "That's what he said." "But I was going to Church's Chicken." "That's where I was going." "I just woke up, just woke up." "Vaughn:" "I thought you were meeting your mama?" "I was." "I called mama..." "Okay, I called my mama, and told..." "Vaughn:" "Get your foot back in the car." " I called my mom and told..." "Vaughn:" " All right, turn around and put your hands behind your back for now, 'cause I'm going to handcuff you." "No, just turn around in the car." "'Cause you're not cooperating the way I want you to, and you're really starting to get on my last nerve." "I am... (Muttering)" "I'm telling the truth." "Vaughn:" "Turn around so I can get your other hand." "(Over radio): 10-4." "Not arguing with you." "I'm telling you the truth." "Vaughn:" "When was the last time you went to jail?" " Let me see this." " This is mine." "Vaughn:" "Let go of it." "When was the last time you went to jail for real?" "(Crying):" " I ain't been to jail in over a year, so... - $25." "Is that what he paid you?" "That's my money." "I already had my own money, been in my shoe." "Vaughn:" "I already called another officer who's dealt with you for this before." "But yeah, but I..." "But I never been convicted of this." "Vaughn:" "All right, well, you're going to go for it today." " For what?" "Vaughn:" " For prostitution." " But how?" "Vaughn:" " He gave you $20." "I pull up, and his pants are already down." "All that means is that I caught you before you got into anything." "But I'm going to jail for prostitution?" "Vaughn:" "Yeah, that's what you're going to jail for." "So, is he going to go to jail?" "Vaughn:" "Hook 'em both up." "(Indistinct radio transmission)" "You're going to jail tonight for prostitution." "You can't offer her money to do the things that she was going to do for you, so this officer's going to take you out to Potter" "County, and, uh, you'll bond out after you see a judge, all right?" "Wright:" "That money was already hers, or what?" "Vaughn:" "She says it was already hers, she had it in her shoe." "Wright:" "Okay, but it was in her hand when you...?" "Vaughn:" "Yeah, it was in her hand." "When I had her go over to you, she's been holding on to this stuff like she didn't want to let go of it, either." "Wright:" "Okay." "Vaughn:" "So, they already done the payment, he just hadn't got his service yet." "Lieutenant Karen Hughes:" "Tonight we are going to be doing what we call a reverse operation, and it's to target the demand side of prostitution." "We use undercover females that are posing as prostitutes on the street." "One of the things that we try to educate the Johns when we bust them out" " You know, they don't realize that many times when they're out here looking for those kind of sexual opportunities, um, the pimps are only a stone's throw away from these girls." "A lot of times the girls are setting these guys up, uh, to do either a carjacking or, uh, a street robbery." "These Johns are very vulnerable." "A taxi driver came up, slowed up, and said hi to her." " Are you guys ready?" "(Over radio):" " Ready." "You got time for me or are you working?" "You want to talk to me?" "Yeah, I want to go inside, okay?" "You have a room here?" "I have a room right here." "How much you expect?" "Sex I-I can do for 50 bucks." "What do you want from me, though?" " You want a...?" " Both." " Both" " You want sex, too?" " Yeah." " Well, how much money you got?" " I'll give you $30." "$30?" "Come on." "Okay." "Just park" " It's the first stairs." "(Over radio):" "She's got the deal on, she's directing him to park." "He's going to be walking right up in the lot here." "Right up there." "Okay." "He sounds like he knows exactly what he's doing." "That's a good deal." "You know that, right?" "They're walking towards the room now." "Okay, they're at the door." "Oh, I'm tired of walking." "Come on in." "You want to sit down and relax?" "You have a condom?" "That's it." "Oh, no." "Okay, I just got to pee real quick." "Relax, relax, relax, relax." "Whoa, whoa." "Relax, bro." "Relax, buddy, relax." "Hold on, hold on, hold on." "Be cool, be cool." "Don't leave my money, please." "Okay, yeah, we'll take care of your money, just relax." "Hughes:" "You know you're under arrest for soliciting prostitution, right?" "Well, I didn't." "I mean, she said, "do you want to take me to the airport?"" "Hughes:" "She wanted you to take her to the airport?" "How come you came inside the apartment, then?" "That's what she told me." "She said, "help me with my luggage."" "Hughes:" "Did you have your pants unzipped?" "I'm sorry?" "Hughes:" "Did you have your pants unzipped when you were encountering her?" "Yeah, I just come in from the airport." "You know, you can check my trip sheet." "I was just in the bathroom right there, and I didn't touch nothing." "When he got out of the car, you know, he immediately knew what I was doing." "He was like, "how much?"" "And I said 50 bucks, and I don't know if it angered him, the $50." "He said $30, and as soon as I said $30, he reached up and grabbed me." " Not, not like he was trying to..." "Hughes:" " In a dominating way." "Right, not like he was trying to hurt me, but like, "no, you're going to do it for $30 and we're going to go up to the room."" "Hughes:" "Okay." "So that was pretty much basically it." "Hughes:" "All right." "We're going to contact his supervisor, and they'll probably come out and pick up the cab here pretty soon." "Wait right over there." "How are you?" "I'm good, how are you?" "Yeah, the guy that said hi is just a pedestrian." "He continued walking on." "Man in a grey jacket." "He turned around and he's heading back towards her." "Yep, sure is." "Sometimes we get walk-ups, guys that are just walking by, and this is one of 'em." " How much you got?" " Ten dollars." " Ten bucks?" " Yeah... well, you know what?" "Ten bucks will get you (Blip), but that's about it." "Ten bucks?" "Sorry, I got nine." "You got nine?" "Nine dollars is a hell of a deal." "That is a good deal." "(Over radio):" "They're walking northbound." "You're lucky it's slow tonight." "We warn officers that come up here, especially the new ones, um, you know, you have to check your ego at the door because you're" " If you're working the streets in Vegas nowadays, you're, you're going to have to get used to guys wanting to charge" " Wanting to pay you a lot less than average street prices, and it's just not a good thing for their ego at all." "Kind of slow." " What do you do?" " Cage cashier." "So you get to play with other people's money all day." "You know what?" "Come on in, take a seat." "I just got to go pee real quick." "Just make yourself comfortable." "I'll be right back, babe." "Metro police, over here." "Hands, get your hands out." "No, no, no, no." "Don't move." "No, no, no, no, no, no, no." "Relax your hands." "Relax." "Relax your hands." "Hughes:" "Where's he work?" "Casino cashier." "Hughes:" "Oh, okay." "He's just getting off work?" " Yeah, he's getting..." "Hughes:" " Walking home?" "Getting off the bus." "Hughes:" "Okay." "You know what kind of area this is, don't you?" "You walk it all the time?" "Yes, ma'am." "Hughes:" "What do you see out here all the time?" "You know, prostitutes." "Hughes:" "A lot of prostitutes." "Have you ever been mugged out here?" "No." "Hughes:" "Have you ever been..." "Somebody tried to sell you drugs?" "That, yeah." "Hughes:" "Yeah?" "It's rough out here." "Probably the best thing that happened to you tonight, is you're going to jail." "Okay?" "Hi, you looking for some fun?" "Huh?" "How much do I charge?" "Well, it depends on what you want." "Sex is 50 bucks if you got it." "What do you want?" "Do you have a room?" "I do." "What are you looking for, though, just straight-up sex?" "Uh-huh." "Yes?" "Yeah." "The deal is down and she's walking towards the room." "I will make you happy, I promise." "You do?" "Just take a seat." "Metro Police." "Police, police, police." "Relax, relax, relax." "Watch your hands." "Relax your hands." "Relax your hands." "Behind your back." "Sorry." "Okay?" "I'm sorry." "Calm down, relax." "I'm sorry." "Relax, you're okay." "Police Department, okay?" "Relax." "You're not going to be hurt, all right?" "(Man sobbing)" "Where you from?" "Israel." "Israel?" "What are you doing in Las Vegas, just visiting?" "I'm just on vacation, yeah." "On vacation?" "Yeah." "How long you been here?" "Eh, one day, two days." "Two days?" "Hughes:" "The later it gets, you know, the more people that get off work, the more opportunities present themselves, and, uh, you know, folks getting off the bus just looking for, for a piece of action from a prostitute." "Gentlemen, this is what we're doing tonight." "We're going to be processing you guys to get you down to the jail." "We're gonna tow your cars so they don't get stolen." "Don't worry about your taxi." "Your boss has already picked it up." "We're gonna be taking you down to Clark County detention center." "You're gonna be booked in for one count of soliciting prostitution." "I know you've got to make a phone call to your wife and family members, so we'll do the best we can." "Okay?" "We took into custody a lot of guys that didn't have prior criminal history, but they all understand that they're going to jail for soliciting." "We're just lucky that they didn't become a real victim tonight by a real pimp or a real robbery, so..." "A lot of first offenders and folks that just made a stupid mistake tonight, um, in Sin City." "Hopefully it's a lesson learned." "Officer (Over radio):" "132 and bush." "I've got him at gunpoint." "Dispatcher:" "At gunpoint, 132 and bush." "Cover is code three."