Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about. Police say anyone looking for sex online might encounter an undercover officer instead. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Welcome to our new and improved comments , which are for subscribers only. This is a test to see whether we can improve the experience for you. You do not need a Facebook profile to participate. You will need to register before adding a comment.
Typed comments will be lost if you are not logged in. Please be polite. It's OK to disagree with someone's ideas, but personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, advocating violence and other violations can result in a ban. If you see comments in violation of our community guidelines , please report them. While the high-profile arrest Friday of an Austin Peay coach accused of patronizing prostitution may have made headlines, many others have been caught in an ongoing operation to crack down on a crime that police say is often associated with other serious crimes in Clarksville.
Since Jan. Of those, 62 were charged with patronizing prostitution or promoting prostitution and 12 were charged with prostitution, according to CPD records. Officers targeted people who were looking for prostitutes in an effort to not only crack down on prostitution but to prevent assaults and robberies that are often associated with prostitution, according to a CPD press release. Such crackdowns have become common since mid when the department actively started responding to ads on the website, using phones collected from prostitutes they arrested to identify potential johns and even posting their own ads offering sex for money.
In a number of cases, men arrived at motels to meet a prostitute and were robbed by men instead. There have even been cases of human trafficking of underage girls in Clarksville. Craig Gipson the Special Operations Unit commander.
Agents Ryan Steinlage and Nathan Lee were the lead investigators in the latest round of arrests. On July 31, police charged Travisa Johnson with prostitution and promoting prostitution. She also has a pending charge for possession of synthetic marijuana, according to the media release. Stephanie King was charged with promoting prostitution and prostitution on July 31 and again Aug. On Aug. Readers are reminded that an arrest, charge or indictment is an allegation and not a statement of guilt.
