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[Larks Tongue]

Then my fun with the Illinios State Troopers. One of them followed me down Winestly(?) then I screwed up, instead of going left to get back on 55 heading east, I turned right to go about a mile and hit 55 west. Right after turning the lights came on and I thought OH SHIT.

The trooper asked the regular things, DL and insurance. Then asked me what I was over in that area for. Well, I had rehearsed this several times, and I quickly said I was lost. I was trying to get to Roxy's to pick up a friend who was too drunk to drive. Well, as you can guess he was not buying it. He questioned me several times. Told me that having anything hanging from the rearview mirror was illegal. I took down somethings, including my radar detector. Again he questioned me a few more times, still not buying my story. He went back to his car and talked to the 2nd trooper that had arrived. He came back up to me and told me to close my window because he was going to have his dog take a trip around my car. Well, one trip around became two, then three. Obviously he found nothing. Then the 2nd trooper came up and asked me what the real reason was I was in the area. Just like the first trooper, he did not believe me. But I stuck to my guns and kept telling him why I was there. Well, the first trooper came back up, handed me a warning ticket for an obstructed windshield. Told me that I was lucky not to have been car jacked and/or killed. He told me to get out of the area and if he ever saw me there again that he would make our next visit much worse.

With his permission and directions to Roxy's I made a u-turn and headed to Roxy's. Parked in the lot for a few, since one of them had followed me, then left and headed home as quickly as possible.

Sorry about the lenght of this, if admin thinks it is too long let me know and I will shorten it.

Guys, just be very very carefull in looking for some fun!

You got to love it when going for a drive became illegal. There was no real reason to pull you over with the exception of hassling you.

[Crash64]

First, I would like to tell all of you to be very very careful in the Exchange area. I had a small problem with Illinios finest last night. But first let me tell you about my hunting on Broadway and Gravios.

I traveled down Jefferson/Broadway from 44. I saw a young thin WSW in the area of Jefferson and Grand(?) but after I turned around I saw her getting into a car. I traveled down Gravios near the Bevo Mill. I say a young 18-20yo WSW(?). I made a few trips around the block, she would never make direct eye contact, but did smile at me. When I turned around in a parking lot she walked past the front of my car and smiled. After passing me she made sure to shake her ass much more inticing than before. But after a few trips, I gave up.

In the same area, not sure what the intersection was, I saw a BSW. Very very short jean skirt. Wore a parka type coat on my first two passes, but took it off to show off a very hefty chest cover in a nice white blouse. the only problem I had was her 'boyfriend' was around and I was very uncomfortable in the way he looked at me as I try to get some signal from her. Again, after a few trips past I gave up and headed to the East side.

Now about my trip to the East side. I made my way to the St Clair exit. Made the loop from Rt 3(this is the road that leads to Roxy's) made a right and past the park right at the stop sign and over the tracks. Nothing to see at all. Made a left on Exchange after a few zig zags thru the streets in that area. Saw a few BSW but was not interested because I do not like it when they walk right out in front of you and start yelling.

Then my fun with the Illinios State Troopers. One of them followed me down Winestly(?) then I screwed up, instead of going left to get back on 55 heading east, I turned right to go about a mile and hit 55 west. Right after turning the lights came on and I thought OH SHIT.

The trooper asked the regular things, DL and insurance. Then asked me what I was over in that area for. Well, I had rehearsed this several times, and I quickly said I was lost. I was trying to get to Roxy's to pick up a friend who was too drunk to drive. Well, as you can guess he was not buying it. He questioned me several times. Told me that having anything hanging from the rearview mirror was illegal. I took down somethings, including my radar detector. Again he questioned me a few more times, still not buying my story. He went back to his car and talked to the 2nd trooper that had arrived. He came back up to me and told me to close my window because he was going to have his dog take a trip around my car. Well, one trip around became two, then three. Obviously he found nothing. Then the 2nd trooper came up and asked me what the real reason was I was in the area. Just like the first trooper, he did not believe me. But I stuck to my guns and kept telling him why I was there. Well, the first trooper came back up, handed me a warning ticket for an obstructed windshield. Told me that I was lucky not to have been car jacked and/or killed. He told me to get out of the area and if he ever saw me there again that he would make our next visit much worse.

With his permission and directions to Roxy's I made a u-turn and headed to Roxy's. Parked in the lot for a few, since one of them had followed me, then left and headed home as quickly as possible.

Sorry about the lenght of this, if admin thinks it is too long let me know and I will shorten it.

Guys, just be very very carefull in looking for some fun!

[Willy Word]

This was bound to happen right here. I've been gone for a month or two out of town but I knew this was comin. I know Deshawn. Matter of fact everyone who hangs around the neighborhood does. Any of you who have ever had a kid with short braids ask you to borrow your car or try to intimidate you into letting him have your car know him to. You just didn't know it was him. He was constantly riding around the area in stolen cars and was known for leaving people stranded in the neighborhood for days that he tricked into getting their cars. If you ever saw someone driving down the streets peeling out or going about 100mph down the side roads then that would be him 9 times out of 10. Crack and gun in the car always to. He would normally make it running from the police but I knew he would get caught sooner or later. I'm actually glad to hear this and I know alot of other people are to. The kid was annoying as hell. The neighborhood is safer without him. Not sayin its safe. LOL.

Dang, when you drive into the street-walker neighborhood that includes the streets of Lynch, 15th, Exchange, etc., you have to assume folks are armed.

Check out this story from BND.com:

ESL teen accused of buying $40 gun off the street, then trying to hide it

Weapon bought off street for $40

BY BETH HUNDSDORFER
News-Democrat (posted 11/24/2007)

An East St. Louis teenager faces weapons charges after police said he was trying to hide a gun he just bought off the street for $40, less than a week after another teenager was charged with the accidental shooting of a 5-year-old boy.

DeShawn L. Denton, 17, of 1513 N. 13th St. in East St. Louis, was charged Friday with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. [Google Maps shows his home address is at Natalie Avenue and 13th, where we've all driven.]

The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department Street Crimes Unit stopped a car about 10 p.m. Thursday at 15th and Lynch streets in East St. Louis, said Sgt. Thomas Trice, head of the unit.

"The driver told police he picked up a woman, then was flagged down by Denton, who offered to pay for a ride home," Trice said.
[Why would Denton need a ride home? His home is so close, maybe 4 blocks away depending on where Denton waved down the car. Also, why would this apparent monger pick up a fella in addition to the apparent SW? He may not have been thinking with his noggin.]

Deputies Tom Peters and Dan Hill noticed [passenger] Denton trying to stuff an object down into the backseat. With the driver's consent, they searched the car and found a .25 semi-automatic pistol between the seat cushions, Trice said.

Denton told deputies he had just bought the gun for $40.

Investigators continue to work the case to determine how Denton got the gun, Trice said.

Denton, who turned 17 in January, was charged as an adult.

His bail was set at $20,000. He was being held Friday in the county jail.

A 14-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with unlawful use of a firearm under the juvenile code after police said he discharged a gun and struck a 5-year-old who was sleeping in his bed.

Tyris Jones was released from the hospital earlier this week after he suffered a gunshot wound. The bullet traveled through a wall into Tryis' bedroom, striking the 5-year-old in the lower left chest.

Police and the mother of the juvenile, who cannot be identified because of his age, didn't know where he got the gun.

"We have to take these guns out of these children's hands," East St. Louis Police Chief Michael Baxton said after the boy was charged.

The street value of guns have dropped, Trice said, allowing younger children to gain access to weapons.

"It's definitely something we are seeing," Trice said. "It's tough when guns go for little to nothing, like in this case."
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It was the county sheriff's department that made the stop, not East St. Louis police or state troopers. The County Sheriff--we haven't heard them mentioned here before.

I wonder if the driver might not have been stopped if he hadn't picked up the car's third occupant.

[Jamesj]

Did the drive about 4:30 p. M. , Temp. About 42. No activity in Brooklyn. Saw uncle LEO near the new Peek-a Boo Club. Onto ESL, Saw 4 SW's on 9th (CR) near Lynch & Exchange, 1 skinny WSW about a 4, the 3 BSW, about 3-4. They all had sponsors. Onto Wash Park. Nothing outside of the clubs & drew a blank by the notel. Nothing worth a dime, so I called it a day.

Be carefull & happy hunting.

[Jannisary]

When its cold outside like now how you find the SW's? Or do they vacation/hibernate in winter?

Please explain locales on best place to find/meet. Not real familiar with e st louis

Ty

Rob

The girls will still be out on the streets. Sometimes harder to tell who you are picking up since they'll be all bundled up. As far as locales etc....RTFF.

[Rick56]

Saturday I was making usual rounds Miss Kittys, Dollies and Bottoms Up. I discovered a new club across the street from the S&L called "Peak A Boo Club". Does anyone know what type of club this is going to be?

[Robc73]

When its cold outside like now how you find the SW's? Or do they vacation/hibernate in winter?

Please explain locales on best place to find/meet. Not real familiar with e st louis

Ty

Rob

[Kemo Sabe]

ESL shooting leaves one dead, another injured
BY CAROLYN P. SMITH
News-Democrat

A barrage of gunshots fired in the 1300 block of Lynch Avenue about 9:30 p.m. Saturday left one man dead and another slightly injured.

East St. Louis Police Chief Michael Baxton said the victim is in his twenties and is believed to be from Cahokia.

He is the 29th homicide in East St. Louis this year.

The unidentified homicide victim was sitting in his vehicle with two others when the gunshots rang out, striking the victim in the back of his head, spraying the vehicle and causing glass to explode from the front windshield, the passenger side and the rear of the vehicle, Baxton said.

Police responded to the 1500 block of Lynch after they received a call reporting the crime, Baxton said.

"They shot the vehicle up. There are bullet holes all over it. We believe eight to 10 rounds went through the vehicle," Baxton said.

"We determined that the driver had been killed and another man who was a passenger in the car was grazed by a bullet."

A third person in the car was unharmed, Baxton said. The car is a tan Hyundai Elantra, he said.

Police have not yet identified any suspects or established a motive for the murder, Baxton said.

He said police did not locate a weapon Saturday night. Detectives combed the vicinity where the shooting occurred.

"We need the public's help to find the shooter," Baxton said. "We're confident that if someone saw or heard something they will come forward and help."

Anyone with any information to help police locate the shooter is urged to call the East St. Louis Police Department at 482-6700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-371-Tips.

A reward of up to $1,000 is paid on the anonymous tip line.

© 2007 Belleville News-Democrat and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.belleville.com

[Rosco2]

Anymore news on Sweet Melissa? (That was a great song, wasn't it.) Any definitive answers yet as to how this pretty lady met her untimely death at only 30? Murder? Bad drugs? Overdose?

I keep checking the newspapers for her last name, but nothing more yet--just the obituary.

If somebody killed her, either with a knife as was mentioned or tainted drugs as was also mentioned, that person needs to pay.

I hope the police are taking action. Kemo Sabe wrote that somebody may have been arrested. Anyone have any more info?

[Payforfun]

RIP Melissa.

Funny thing was, since it had been almost a year, I couldn't remeber if it was Melissa or Jennifer that I had visited, lol. I had to go back to the pics to confirm that yes, it was Melissa. Very sad fate.

[Jamesj]

Decided to cruise the east side and make a loop. Drove to Brooklyn, one BSW near the Pink Slipper ,maybe a 7, but uncle LEO was on Rte.3. Onto ESL. Saw 2 WSW on CR, both had a sponser. Made a U-turn near hwy 203. As I was driving back noticed one of St Clair's finest on a side street, continued on to Exchange and saw ISP LEO back into a dead end ramp. The weather was 41% and raining. I wondered if a set-up was about to go down and since I was to meet my SO in an hour, I decided to pass. The one WSW was blonde,white coat and about a 5. The other was 5ft 5", about 120#,and could be judged as a 6-7. Maybe next time, be careful & happy hunting.

[Jannisary]

Group accused of more crimes
3 are charged with prostitution racket
By DERRICK NUNNALLY
dnunnally@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Dec. 6, 2007

The "Body Snatchers" crime ring, which authorities say was involved in a litany of crimes in Milwaukee including murder, cocaine dealing, armed robbery, kidnapping and mortgage fraud, has now been accused of running a prostitution racket stretching from Wisconsin to Nebraska.


Michael Lock, 36, previously accused in state and federal courts of leading the group's various operations, is charged with having pimped a group of exotic dancers - including the woman he would later marry, Shalonda Mason Lock - from 1998 to 2003. The operation netted more than $180,000 over the years, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court.

Both Locks were charged with 10 felony counts of prostitution conspiracy, which would put each of them at risk of more than 90 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Shalonda Lock, 34, has no other charges pending. Her husband already faces several centuries of potential prison time if convicted of the many other charges he faces.

"They're making desperate efforts to charge Mike Lock with anything they can possibly find," said his attorney, Rodney Cubbie.

A third person, Midgalia M. Smith, 30, is charged with helping the Locks run the pandering scheme and has been charged with four felonies punishable by up to 37 years.

According to the complaint, the interstate prostitution conspiracy was centered in Milwaukee, with the prostitutes sometimes housed in north side homes owned by Lock and his mother - including the home at 4900 N. Fiebrantz Ave. where two bodies were found under a concrete slab in 2005.

From there, the complaint says, the prostitutes traveled to exotic dance clubs in cities across the Midwest, including Wausau, Darien and Fountain City; Holdrege and Omaha, Neb.; and East St. Louis, Ill., dancing under the names Pleasure, Cha Cha, Mustang, Chick and Sassy, and selling sex in the clubs and nearby hotels.

Shalonda Lock, alleged to be both madam and prostitute, is accused of collecting the proceeds and wiring them back to Lock. According to Cubbie, Michael and Shalonda Lock were married after the time they are charged with running the prostitution ring.

The complaint quotes a recorded phone conversation between the two from November 2003, when Michael Lock was in prison:

Shalonda Lock: "Who were those other people, then?"

Michael Lock: "They was my hos."

Shalonda Lock: "They was your hos. I was your woman."

Michael Lock: "Right, but you was my ho, too."

Shalonda Lock was arrested Monday, Cubbie said.

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This article came up in my regular Google News search for East St. Louis information. I'm wondering which clubs these women danced at. I'm guessing the reporter used "East St. Louis" for the general area. In the time period mentioned Club64 would have been the only club actually in ESL.

[Jannisary]

I truely think Le should take a look at a *regular* at Discreet motel.He goes by the name Eric!

Never heard any mention of Melissa frequenting the Discrete but a lot of girls went in and out of that place.

When I read Melissa had died at the Belleville hospital it kinda raised my doubts about her getting murdered in East St. Louis at a drug house. If she'd been attacked there wouldn't she have been taken to the local hospital? I know Belleville has some really rough neighborhoods but if she'd been murdered in Belleville it should have been all over the News Democrat. The bad drugs angle seems more likely. Either way its a terrible thing.

The street girls can be great sources of information but at the same time they are actually pretty isolated and go a lot on what they hear by word of mouth from other girls or pimps. It can kinda be like that old childrens game of "telephone" where you tell the first kid one thing and then it gets repeated down the line of kids and then you see how messed up the story is at the end.

[HeavenForHire]

I was a working girl there for quite some time.Shortly after I left she apparently wandered back there.I know it was a inside job!The owners brother Eric or 2 other's i wont name on here are responsible!I bet a piece of my foot on that!!Its oneof the 3.I wonder thi are they connected with the girls found in the weeds this summer and recent?

[Jannisary]

I am here in Cincinnati, Ohio and wanted to know if the Pink Slip Strip Club is still open.

Yes the Pink Slip is still open.

I learned to stay in Collinville instead of St.Louis Mo. Only when I come in by Airplane did I stay out near Linburg airport.

I agree Collinsville is the best place to stay. It puts you within easy driving of both Brooklyn and Washington Park.

You could do the Girls right in the Club, and outside the cops never hassled anyone. And are the other Strip Clubs still there. Are they still worth going to. A few SW's walked the area during the night. Most were miles before you get to the railroad track. They would flash you as you drove by. That will get them noticed.

I'm not sure about the in club activity. The cops in Brooklyn have tightened up but won't hassle you unless you're obvious problem. There is Bottom's Up which is another black club and Roxy's and PT's Brooklyn which used to be the Platinum Club. I've always had fun at both of them.

You'll occasionally see a sw in Brooklyn but its probably not like you remember it. More likely to find sw in East St. Louis.

If you find Brooklyn not to your liking, you can take a quick trip over to Washington Park. I suggest you check out that part of the forum.