Thread Starter
Printable View
Thread Starter
"SANDY CULLEN | State Journal | Posted: Monday, May 17, 2010 5:19 pm"
Here's a link to Sandy's story:
[url]http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_b645ba18-6202-11df-adbd-001cc4c03286.html[/url]
[quote]apartment in the 1700 block of Niemann Place[/quote]
[quote]The woman was described as white, 5 feet 5 inches tall. She has blond hair with dark streaks, tattoos on her chest and back, and was wearing a black tank top with thin straps and jeans.[/quote]
Based on the description of the massage gal, any theories as to who this might be?
Does anyone recognize that neighborhood as a past destination for massage?
It sounded like the victim had past dealings with this one but went sour this time.
If the perp. is posting on CL in madtown as indicated by the article, there is only a handful of posters on any given day and a consistent bunch too.
I wonder if this happened to others afraid to contact LE?
Description doesn't ring a bell. Location is over by the Allied/Highland Motel neighborhood. I have never met anyone over there.
BILL NOVAK | The Capital Times | [email]bnovak@madison.com[/email] | Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:00 am
[url]http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_6e0fb5e8-470c-11df-b775-001cc4c002e0.html[/url]
[quote]A pair of masseuses named Exotica and Mrs. Unique rubbed a Madison man the wrong way early Saturday morning, fleeing with his money while leaving two bottles of body lotion behind.
The robbery happened at about 12:45 a.m. Saturday at a residence in the 200 block of North Blair Street.
Madison police said the 27-year-old man found Exotica and Mrs. Unique on the website Backpage.com and had them come over to his place.
"Exotica told the victim to lie face down on his bed," said police spokesman Joel DeSpain. "The victim complied, looked back, and saw Mrs. Unique going through his wallet."
Police said the man tried to get up, but Exotica pushed him back down, before the two masseuses fled with several hundred dollars.
"They were last seen getting into a green sedan," DeSpain said.
One suspect is a black female in her late 20s, with short braided hair with highlights, tattoos on her neck and a medium build. The other was described as a white female in her late 20s, 5'8" to 5'9" tall, long black hair with highlights, and a medium build.
"The two bottles of body lotion are now in a Madison Police Department evidence locker," DeSpain said.
[/quote]
By BILL NOVAK | The Capital Times | [email]bnovak@madison.com[/email] | Posted: Friday, June 4, 2010 9:40 am
[url]http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_667dab84-6fe1-11df-93e8-001cc4c03286.html[/url]
[quote]A Madison man told police he was on his way to a date when he lost his way and was robbed by a couple in a hotel parking lot, Madison police reported.
The strong arm robbery happened at about 3:15 a.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the Rodeway Inn, 4845 Hayes Road, on the east side.
Police said the 21-year-old victim said he was driving and on the phone with his date, who was giving him directions to her residence.
"At some point, he said the directions were not making sense, so he pulled into the Rodeway Inn parking lot," said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.
His intent was to just turn his vehicle around, but while in the lot, a woman came up to his car.
"She told the victim she needed money for a sick child," DeSpain said. "He got out of his car and was going to accompany her into the hotel."
Before getting there, a man confronted the victim.
"He asked the victim to turn over his money and the victim obliged," DeSpain said.
The suspects were described as black, with the woman in her 40s, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 110 pounds, with long, curly brown hair; and the man 30-45 years old, 5-8 and 200 pounds, with a shaved head.[/quote]
For those not familiar, I'm pretty sure the Rodeway Inn was formerly the "Select Inn," and is right next to Perkins.
By ED TRELEVEN | [email]etreleven@madison.com[/email] | 608-252-6134 | Posted: Friday, July 9, 2010 5:47 pm
[url]http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_e3210ba8-8bad-11df-a45e-001cc4c03286.html[/url]
[QUOTE]After he had rammed his SUV into the front of Visions night club early Tuesday, Keith xxxx told police that he had come to Madison from Racine to decapitate his sister, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.
Kieth xxxx, 50, was charged with two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment along with disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property for allegedly smashing into the front of the club after he was thrown out because he was drunk and had vomited in the club's VIP section.
But when police found his vehicle in a parking lot several blocks down East Washington Avenue from Visions, the complaint states, he said he was from Racine and had come into town to cut his sister's head off.
When police asked how he was going to do that, the complaint states, he told them to look in a bag in his vehicle, where police found a knife in sheath.
"If she was there she would be in two pieces," he told police, according to the complaint.
Kieth xxxx was released from jail Friday after posting $2,800 bail. His attorney, Marcus Berghahn, said in court that Kieth xxxx had been an engineer for 22 years and most recently worked for the U.S. Census.
Kieth xxxx is also charged in Marathon County with misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct for another incident involving the same sister.
According to a criminal complaint Kieth xxxx got into an argument with his sister at their mother's home in rural Rosholt on June 19. Esther xxxx told police that her brother pushed her off of an outdoor deck, kicked her, hit her with a lawn chair and threatened to kill her, the complaint states.[/QUOTE]
This is the guy who rammed his SUV into Vision's strip club.
By STEVEN VERBURG | [email]sverburg@madison.com[/email] | 608-252-6118 | Posted: Friday, April 9, 2010 4:55 pm
[url]http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_a6330ae8-4422-11df-aa49-001cc4c03286.html[/url]
[quote]Madison is considering a new law to help police bust prostitution that is moving from the streets to the Internet.
The proposal would go beyond the existing prohibition against streetwalking to outlaw Web-based advertisements and other online communication designed to bring together sex workers and johns.
"You want an ordinance to more accurately keep up with technology," said Lt. David Jugovich, a supervisor at the police department West District, where community policing team officers last year made more than a dozen arrests after investigating complaints about online prostitutes.
The ordinance is scheduled to be introduced at Tuesday's City Council meeting. It will be reviewed in committee before coming back for a council vote.
Police Chief Noble Wray supports the ordinance, but said enforcing it would be labor intensive.
"It would definitely take a sting operation," Wray said. "You'd have to monitor the Internet and then be in contact with the parties involved."
Because sex ads typically aren't explicit — usually they offer escorts, massages or "good times" — police call, e-mail or text the person who placed the advertisement and arrange to meet them at a motel or other place where an undercover officer would make an arrest after the suspect clearly proposed sex for pay.[/quote]
CHRIS RICKERT | [email]crickert@madison.com[/email] | 608-252-6198 | Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:03 pm
[url]http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_a2128f5e-4d70-11df-94de-001cc4c002e0.html[/url]
[quote]Q. Earlier this month, Madison policy makers took up a proposed ordinance to outlaw the creation of online prostitution ads. Would Madison have jurisdiction to prosecute the offense if the ad is created on a computer or stored on a server outside Madison?
A. Yes, according to Madison assistant city attorney John Strange, who wrote the ordinance.
“It’s not the ad that gives the court jurisdiction. ... It’s the totality of the circumstances,” he said. “The person who gets a ticket is going to be somebody in Madison.”
The people prosecuted under the ordinance would almost always be facing traditional prostitution charges as well, he said.
As they do now, police conducting sting operations would agree to meet people at locations in Madison and, once verifying that the people expected money for sex, arrest them for prostitution, Strange said. If in the course of the investigation it became clear that a prostitute offered his or her services online, the officer could ticket the person under the new ordinance.
Strange said a defense attorney questioning the city’s jurisdiction in such instances might have more of a case to make if police were simply mailing out tickets to people posting cash-for-sex ads online.
But because those people probably aren’t posting their mailing addresses with their ads, that would be hard to do, he said. Strange said he can’t imagine a situation in which a person is charged under the ordinance but not charged with prostitution.
Walter Dickey, a UW-Madison Law School professor who specializes in criminal law, agreed that the city is probably on stable legal ground. An ordinance violation is a civil matter, but some of the same reasoning that applies to criminal procedure likely applies in this case, he said.
“It’s really a question of the connection between the offense and the city, and because the offense occurs at least in part in Madison, I think that ordinarily would be thought to be sufficient nexus,” he said.[/quote]
Prostitution here takes many forms, only some of which draw police attention
Joe Tarr on Thursday 08/05/2010
[url]http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=30074[/url]
By DEAN MOSIMAN | [email]dmosiman@madison.com[/email] | 608-252-6141 | Posted: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:38 pm
[url]http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_6f0ada68-83d9-11df-bf48-001cc4c002e0.html[/url]
[quote]The city is moving to close and force a sale of a worn Beltline motel that for years has been a hotbed of alleged drug activity, prostitution, violence and other criminal activity.
Seeking to close a motel for criminal activity for the first time, the city on Tuesday filed an action in Dane County Circuit Court alleging the Highlander Motor Inn, 4353 W. Beltline, is a "drug house" under the state's public nuisance statute.
An 85-page complaint describes the 38-room motel as a "high drug, high crime property" and often the site of "violent crimes and disturbances."
The complaint details a series of police responses to problem at the motel between January 2008 and June 20, 2010, including the sale of heroin, cocaine and marijuana; robberies; disturbances involving guns and knives; a hanging; intoxicated guests; beatings; fights; lewd behavior and trespassing.
The property had 265 calls for police service in 2008, 299 in 2009, and 90 in the first three months of 2010, assistant city attorney Jennifer Zilavy said.
"If we don't move on it, something worse will happen on the property," Zilavy said. "The Police Department is convinced that the next thing was going to be a homicide."
Asked about the level of trouble at the property compared to other apartment buildings and motels in the city, Zilavy responded, "I haven't seen anything close."
The city is asking the court for an injunction to vacate, board up and secure the property, owned by Yi Chang Wang, and to have it sold, Zilavy said. The city will also ask the court to appoint a receiver to take over maintenance of the property, facilitate its closure, and ensure it is secure. The property is assessed at $937,500 for 2010.
An injunction hearing before Judge Richard Niess is set for July 7.
Wang, who has owned the property since 1978, declined an interview, saying only, "It's not fair."
Attorney Rick Petri, who is representing Wang, declined comment early Tuesday until he has an opportunity to review the court filing. He could not be reached later in the day.
In an affidavit accompanying the complaint, West District Police Capt. Jay Lengfeld said since he became captain in January 2007 "the Highlander (m)otel has been used to facilitate the delivery, distribution and/or manufacture and use of controlled substances." He could not be reached.
Two people who identified themselves as guests declined to be interviewed Tuesday.
Neighbors said the motel has been long troubled, although problems have eased after recent police actions.
A homeowner, who spoke under the condition he not be named for fear of retaliation, said he has been waiting for the city to take action.
"It's time the city got serious," he said.
David Sisson, who owns Sisson Mobility Restoration Center, 4343 Beltline Highway, next door to the motel, said he has witnessed many apparent drug deals and prostitution encounters, as well as guests littering his property.
"The scene was mind-boggling," he said. "There were hundreds of deals going down a day. It was like every room in the motel was occupied by an individual businessman."
The city has been trying to work with Wang, Zilavy said, adding that the hotel has a mix of short- and long-term guests.
In February 2008, police sent Wang a letter informing him of a high volume of police calls and asking for a meeting to discuss strategies to improve the property, the complaint says. In June of that year, police sent letters declaring an official notice of drug activity and a declaration of a chronic nuisance premises. Similar letters were sent on March 12, 2010.
Also, the city building inspector issued notices of a total 115 building code violations on Jan. 4, March 12 and June 17 this year, it says.
The complaint says Wang has called police for help many times, and even been victimized. On Sept. 20, 2009, a man attacked him from behind inside the motel, putting him in a choke hold and punching him in the face several times.
Although Wang made some efforts, the criminal activity always resumed, Zilavy said.
Wang "has failed to follow through on management commitments and is engaging in poor tenant screening and monitoring," Lengfeld's affidavit says.
The city has used the state statute to declare apartment buildings as drug houses, but never done so with a motel, Zilavy said.[/quote]
By SANDY CULLEN | [email]scullen@madison.com[/email] | 608-252-6137 | Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:01 pm
[url]http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_4f40cc4a-9a8d-11df-ad9a-001cc4c03286.html[/url]
[quote]Two men were charged Wednesday with kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old Middleton woman who told police the men also tried to sell her as a prostitute on the streets of Milwaukee until a group of people helped her escape.
Andrew J. Meinholz, 20, of Middleton and Aaron T. Gilbert, 21, of Madison were both charged with first-degree sexual assault and being a party to kidnapping. Meinholz also was charged with misdemeanor bail jumping.
At an initial appearance in Dane County Circuit Court on Wednesday, bail was set at $90,000 for Meinholz and at $20,000 for Gilbert. Both were being held in Dane County Jail.
According to a criminal complaint:
The victim met Meinholz at Middleton's Quarry Skate Park on July 17 to retrieve personal property, but Meinholz claimed she owed him money and forced her into Gilbert's vehicle, which Gilbert drove to Madison, Monona, Watertown and Milwaukee.
Both men forced her to have sex with them and threatened to kill her if she called police.
The woman was able to call her mother and tell her she was in Milwaukee and that she wanted to go home, but Meinholz ended the conversation. The woman's mother called Milwaukee police, who contacted the woman by phone, but Meinholz made her tell them she was fine and did not need help.
Gilbert drove to downtown Milwaukee, where Meinholz tried to solicit others to pay to have sex with the woman.
A group of college-age people whom Meinholz had solicited later helped the woman to escape. The woman told police Meinholz threatened the husband of a woman who helped her, saying he had a gun and was going to find them and shoot them.[/quote]
[quote]The woman was described as white, 5 feet 5 inches tall. She has blond hair with dark streaks, tattoos on her chest and back, and was wearing a black tank top with thin straps and jeans.
apartment in the 1700 block of Niemann Place[/quote]
[QUOTE=Pharo]Based on the description of the massage gal, any theories as to who this might be?
Does anyone recognize that neighborhood as a past destination for massage?[/QUOTE]
With "Theory" being the key word here, I have one, "Angel Eyes," who matches the description and who has had some reports of less than stellar service, including alleged theft.
I see she also used the name "CeCe."
[url]http://usasexguide.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=106451[/url]
[QUOTE=Permanent Wood]Prostitution here takes many forms, only some of which draw police attention
Joe Tarr on Thursday 08/05/2010
[url]http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=30074[/url][/QUOTE]I read the article, but I don't recall reading anything about the adult services section of the Isthmus. It's almost like they conveniently forgot how they are part of the scene too, but I'm sure they must have known since it has been in everyone of their papers for like 20 years.
[QUOTE=Too Nice]I read the article, but I don't recall reading anything about the adult services section of the Isthmus. It's almost like they conveniently forgot how they are part of the scene too, but I'm sure they must have known since it has been in every one of their papers for like 20 years.[/QUOTE]
Good point, and you are right. The Isthmus has accepted payment for adult ads for years, Daja and Suzanne have advertised in it for decades now, along with many others. I suppose you could say The Yellow Pages is in the same boat, advertising adult services, but they aren't writing articles on "Sex for sale" either.
Maybe the article should have been titled, "Sex for sale in Madison, just flip to the back for their ads."