This article was in the Boston Herald. Police were monitoring Craigslist for prostitution. How much more proof do we need that cops view sites like CFS for illegal activity?
5 arrested for soliciting on Web site
By Jessica Fargen
Monday, October 17, 2005 - Updated: 11:43 AM EST
Women posing in racy photos on the Internet are advertising sex-for-sale at suburban hotels on a popular Web site that sells everything from books to apartments, police say.
Braintree police arrested five women for prostitution in the past two weeks during a sting operation after they called women from
www.craigslist.org and met up with them at local hotels. The Web site has ads for jobs, furniture, jewelry, tickets and a raunchy section called ``casual encounters.''
``These rendezvous . . . draw an undesirable element and (lead to) an all-too-frequent spike in crime,'' said Deputy Police Chief Russell Jenkins.
One 20-year-old told police she's been hooking since she was 14, serves eight men each day and nets $1,500.
Some working gals rolled up to the hotel in Mercedes, BMWs and Cadillacs and smoked marijuana in the rooms, police say.
Police believe some of the women who posted ads on craigslist.org are linked to a prostitution ring.