Solicitation of Prostitution, b , Century Blvd. Please do not include any confidential or sensitive information in a contact form, text message, or voicemail. The contact form sends information by non-encrypted email, which is not secure. Submitting a contact form, sending a text message, making a phone call, or leaving a voicemail does not create an attorney-client relationship. Award Recipient. Sex Offenses. Prostitution and Indecent Exposure.
Prostitution Case Results. He instead meets LAPD officers in the specified hotel room and is ticketed for solicitation of prostitution. No case filed. Our client, age 32, was in Los Angeles for business. He had just flown in from Pennsylvania and immediately rented a car. As he was driving to his hotel, he decided to drive eastbound on Century Boulevard towards downtown Los Angeles.
The decoy then texted our client that he could meet her at a Quality Inn on Century Boulevard and gave him the address, as well as a specific hotel room number where he could meet her. Once our client arrived at the Quality Inn, he parked his car and went to the specified hotel room. Once the hotel door was opened, our client was greeted by a uniformed Los Angeles Police Department human trafficking vice officer, who immediately handcuffed our shocked client.
Our client was then photographed and fingerprinted at the hotel before being released once he signed a promise to appear in about three months in the Inglewood Courthouse. He was quite confused about whether the arrest was lawful because no officer read him his Miranda rights prior to putting on the handcuffs.
Greg addressed this issue, explaining that the elements of the crime for solicitation of prostitution distill down an agreement between two people to exchange money, or anything of value, for sex and a substantial step by defendant in furtherance of the agreement. The officer did not interrogate our client in any way and our client did not offer any statements to the officer that our client would wish to suppress as required for proof of the commission of the crime.
