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This coverage from the New York Times, as presented in Sunday's Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5118503.html
CRAIGSLIST IS BECOMING PROSTITUTE'S NEW FRONTIER
Arrests around country show it's a choice destination for those seeking and offering sex
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like East Garden City, Hicksville and Woodbury. Their ages ranged from 20 to 32.
Three had come all the way from the San Francisco Bay area, one from Miami. Two lived less than 60 miles away, in Newark and Elizabeth, N.J., and two even closer, in Brooklyn.
All eight were arrested on prostitution charges here, snared in a new sting operation by the Nassau County police that focuses on Craigslist.org, the ubiquitous Web site best known for its employment and for-sale advertisements but which law enforcement officials say is increasingly also used to trade sex for money.
Nassau County has made more than 70 arrests since it began focusing on Craigslist last year, one of numerous crackdowns by vice squads from Hawaii to New Hampshire that have lately been monitoring the Web site closely, sometimes placing decoy ads to catch would-be customers.
"Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now," said Richard McGuire, assistant chief of detectives with the Nassau County police. "Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest."
Sex and the Internet have been intertwined almost since the first Web site, but authorities say prostitution is flourishing online like never before. And while prostitutes also advertise on other sites, the police here and across the country say Craigslist is by far the favorite.
On one recent day, for example, some 9,000 listings were added to the site's "Erotic Services" category in the New York region alone: Most offered massage and escorts, often hinting at more.
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This coverage from the New York Times, as presented in Sunday's Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5118503.html
CRAIGSLIST IS BECOMING PROSTITUTE'S NEW FRONTIER
Arrests around country show it's a choice destination for those seeking and offering sex
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like East Garden City, Hicksville and Woodbury. Their ages ranged from 20 to 32.
Three had come all the way from the San Francisco Bay area, one from Miami. Two lived less than 60 miles away, in Newark and Elizabeth, N.J., and two even closer, in Brooklyn.
All eight were arrested on prostitution charges here, snared in a new sting operation by the Nassau County police that focuses on Craigslist.org, the ubiquitous Web site best known for its employment and for-sale advertisements but which law enforcement officials say is increasingly also used to trade sex for money.
Nassau County has made more than 70 arrests since it began focusing on Craigslist last year, one of numerous crackdowns by vice squads from Hawaii to New Hampshire that have lately been monitoring the Web site closely, sometimes placing decoy ads to catch would-be customers.
"Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now," said Richard McGuire, assistant chief of detectives with the Nassau County police. "Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest."
Sex and the Internet have been intertwined almost since the first Web site, but authorities say prostitution is flourishing online like never before. And while prostitutes also advertise on other sites, the police here and across the country say Craigslist is by far the favorite.
On one recent day, for example, some 9,000 listings were added to the site's "Erotic Services" category in the New York region alone: Most offered massage and escorts, often hinting at more.
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