{"id":3589,"date":"2010-10-28T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2010-10-28T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T13:20:31","slug":"prostitutes-back-in-action-on-bay-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/prostitutes-back-in-action-on-bay-street","title":{"rendered":"Prostitutes Back in Action on Bay Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being shut down two years ago, a prostitution ring operating only steps away from the Fort Charlotte Police Station appears to be thriving again.<\/p>\n<p>American tourists were harrassed by a Bahamian pimp trying to sell his women on Bay Street Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaican and Haitian women are allegedly holed up in the Mayfair Hotel while their pimps work Bay Street soliciting tourists.<\/p>\n<p>A multi-national prostitution ring that was headquartered in the hotel was busted two years ago. However, the participants were tiped off prior to the raid, allegedly by a crooked cop, and hence no arrests were made and nobody was ever prosecuted for operating the prostitution ring.<\/p>\n<p>It is presumed that police officers from the Fort Charlotte precinct are involved in the prostitution business, or how else could it even exist in such close proximity to the police station.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune reports that their reporters witnessed the pimp soliciting his girls to a group of American tourists on Monday evening outside the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Avoiding his remarks, the men continued down the street, despite being followed and assured by the handler that whatever they were seeking he could &#8216;supply&#8217;,&#8221; the newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>Cops at the Fort Charlotte Police station played dumb, telling the newspaper that they knew &#8220;nothing&#8221; about any prostitution taking place at the hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being shut down two years ago, a prostitution ring operating only steps away from the Fort Charlotte Police Station appears to be thriving again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,38],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}