Prostitution Ring Broken Up In NE Philly
By Wyatt Earp | September 8, 2009
This place is less than a mile from my house and it was renting out whores? Why was I not informed???
Police said five people are in custody after the discovery of an alleged prostitution and drug ring inside a Northeast Philadelphia hotel.
Officers with the department’s warrant unit were led to a Ramada on the Roosevelt Boulevard at about 7:30 p.m. while searching for a 23-year-old female sought on an absconder warrant.
Police found the female in question inside the hotel, along with several additional women and two males. The group was apparently operating a prostitution and drug ring out of a block of rooms in the hotel.
Philadelphia Police Captain John Darby said additional units were notified and officers conducted an early morning raid of the hotel Monday. Numerous narcotics, including cocaine, crack, heroin, marijuana and prescription pills, were found in the room of a male suspect, identified as 49-year-old John Lee. (H/T – CBS3)
Dude, what the frak? It’s bad enough that I have a pot-head a few houses up from me and a heroin junkie in a house behind me, but now I have pimps and hos, too?
I gotta start carrying my cuffs 24 hours a day. Ya never know when you’re gonna walk in to a pinch, right?
Topics: Philly | 12 Comments »
September 8th, 2009 at 7:32 am
They forgot John Lee’s last name.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:36 am
That’s why you live in a big city.
In the country, you would have to travel a half hour or more to see that kind of diversity.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Geez, I see an episode of “Cops” being filmed in your neighborhood. Smile for the camera, Wyatt!
September 8th, 2009 at 11:17 am
We have numbers runners, corner boys and good cheese; pretty tame stuff compared to your neighborhood!
September 8th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Sully – Is it “Hooker?”
Veeshir – Imagine the gas I’m saving!
MeToo – No thank you. I don’t need America seeing my grotesque face on their television sets.
Mrs. Crankipants – Move on up, then! Less Aye-talians here.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Will my big hair work in your neck of the woods?
September 8th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Mrs. Crankipants – Of course! We practically invented that here!
September 8th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
While we’re on the subject of “just when you think you’re safe…”
Last night/early this morning (not exactly sure what time), two people were shot on Main Street. Apparently, from what my roommate told me (he’s an Officer as well), it happened at Mad River. That bar sucks first off, and secondly, I knew the day that place opened it would attract doucebags. That’s the kind of atmosphere the bar has – that popped-collar, “I’ll kick your ass if you look at me the wrong way” type atmosphere.
I’m 24, and I frequent Main Street quite a bit with friends on the weekends, so this incident kinda shocks me. Then again, it’s Philly and I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised, huh?
Stay safe Wyatt
September 8th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
It’s bad enough that I have a pot-head a few houses up from me and a heroin junkie in a house behind me, but now I have pimps and hos, too?
That, my friend, is why I pray for you, the missus, and the little ones. You all have a lot to deal with living in Philly. (Not that it isn’t around here, but it is on overload over where you are.)
September 8th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Too easy.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Wyatt, sir;
Never mind the cuffs. Start carrying a sidearm 24/7.
Alt-A mortgages are going to be resetting in big numbers in a year or two, unemployment benefits are going to run out by the end of the year, and a lot of folks are going to get desperate. If things don’t turn around, Our Fair City is going to look like Shanghai between the world wars.
September 10th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Andrew – My division covers that area. Trust me, the cops in your section are not exactly rocket scientists. Stay safe.
RT – It’s a good neighborhood, but there are a couple of knuckleheads.
Kim – Heh, that’s my girl!
Lergnom – I usually carry, but not always. That’s gonna change.