Entrapment versus "Agent Provocateur"
I'll comment on this based upon "these advertisements" being those on CL & BP and those advertising for massages and massage services.
Massage is a medical term and legally is supposed to be provided by a licensed or certified massage therapist or other licensed medical professional. If anyone advertises offering massage under a paid service they have to be legal and if they're not they're violating laws. If LE advertises for massages, in my opinion, that's entrapment. From what I was told, these providers can advertise for "body rubs" with no nudity to make it legal.
Massage were discussed on another forum. Here's a link to what I posted:
[url]http://www.usasexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=911189&postcount=164[/url]
I've been told that if LE advertises, especially for a sting, on a forum or public website they have to have permission from the ownership. Basic TOS rules of sites usually tell you about LE cooperation or possible use of the site. I've read case laws where lawyers have had cases dismissed and overturned on appeal because of that. LE can't advertise for an illegal activity. LE ads are generally vague and don't have photos of people. They set you up to trap yourself.
Entrapment: A police officer encourages a person to commit a crime so that the officer can have him prosecuted for that crime.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment[/url]
I have yet to see any "Entrapment Defined" in the Code of VA. I was told they use the definition found in any legal/law dictionary.
There's also this that LE statewide uses: "Agent Provocateur"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur[/url]
Traditionally, an agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs, French for "inciting agent(s)") is a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act.
If anyone remembers "The Bikini Girl" from Operation Flea Collar that took down The Big Dog years back - that's a good example. This girl was a citizen under a "contract" with LE to to pose and work as a full-service escort - and to be their informant.
Locally, they use this. They use girls with pending charges against them. They work as an "agent" to have their charges dismissed. IN the past 3 years, I know of several girls who took that deal. They can encourage you to commit a crime, help obtain the evidence and you're busted.
If anyone has read the paper, these girls line up to testify against agencies that have been busted in immunity deals. They even issued subpeona's to clients from credit card charges and phone records. Girls from Roses's Bad Girls and Aphrodite (Tidewater) are exmaples. Plenty were lined up for the "DC Madam."
Then there's the classic "snitch" like Tim Cole of Rose's Bad Girls. Under his plea agreement he got charges dropped and sentence reduction for assisting LE in "on-going investigations" in the area.
For the most part, LE goes after the providers, pimps, agency owners, etc. I have heard of some "John's" getting pooped but mostly in SW stings.
[QUOTE=Va Jammin]I am wondering if the advertisements which have an actual Price for a massage or other services can be assumed to be real (not LE). I thought that LE couldn't put a price in the ad. That would be entrapment.[/QUOTE]