The year-old father of a female toddler nervously lingered outside the third-floor hotel room in Temecula. Minutes earlier, just after 2 p. He walked up to the hotel room but stood, for a couple of minutes, outside the door. A woman inside the room watched him through the peephole and eventually opened the door. He had come expecting 60 minutes of sex with a prostitute he contacted on online adult website Dulce , which means candy in Spanish.
The arrest of Jose, and several others, occurred during a prostitution sting Thursday, Jan. The sting, targeting both men who agree to pay for sex and female prostitutes, was part of Operation Reclaim and Rebuild , which in Riverside County ran for four days, Jan.
Among those arrested throughout the state were 27 suspected human traffickers and exploiters and customers, officials said. Statewide, investigators rescued 76 adults and 11 children from human traffickers. In one of three rooms the RCSD used for the sting, Vigil went online to pose as a man seeking sex from female prostitutes who appeared in online escort advertisements. The goal was to get some women to come to the hotel who are victims of human trafficking.
Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta. If found guilt of soliciting sex, the Johns face a fine or local jail time or both. It took between four and six hours for them to be released from custody with a promise to appear before a judge at a later date.
Also during the four-day operation, Riverside County task force members made contact with an adult female believed to be a victim of sex trafficking who was being forced to engage in acts of prostitution against her will.
