Entrapment and probable cause
I am really having an issue with the Kraft Case. Below is an account of the reports:
Law enforcement officers claim that Kraft twice solicited another person for sex. He allegedly did so on Jan. 19 and Jan. 20 at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter.
According to a narrative of the Sunday, Jan. 20 events signed by Detective Andrew Sharp, Kraft wore a dark long-sleeve shirt, blue baseball cap and blue shorts when he walked into the spa at 10:59 am. Kraft allegedly entered through a front door and paid cash to a woman who worked at the front desk. The narrative claims that two police surveillance cameras captured Kraft's activities while in the spa. It's clear from the narrative's description that the cameras were part of a sting operation to videotape men who solicited the spa's worker for sex.
Upon entering a spa room, Kraft allegedly hugged a woman. He then took off all of his clothing. At that point, the narrative insists, Kraft "laid face up on the massage table" and was hugged again by the woman. She then "manipulated Kraft's penis and testicles and then put her head down by his penis" for a period of several minutes. The woman then used a towel to wipe Kraft in the area of his genitals. Thereafter she helped Kraft dress and hugged him once again. Kraft then paid her a $100 bill, and another bill, and left the room at 11:13 am. Kraft then walked to the parking lot and entered the passenger side of a blue Bentley waiting for him.
This narrative also asserts that Kraft had entered the spa a day earlier and "was positively identified by a Massachusetts driver's license. " A separate narrative by Detective Sharp, dated Saturday Jan. 19, describes Kraft as entering the spa that day at 4:45 pm and leaving it at 5:25 pm. This narrative describes a similar experience as discussed above. Some differences include Kraft being observed while using a cell phone in the waiting area. Also, two women allegedly massaged him that Saturday. One of those women allegedly placed her hands on Kraft's penis. After Kraft left the spa, he entered the passenger side of the Bentley. Shortly after the Bentley left the parking lot of the strip mall, a police officer pulled over the car for a traffic stop. Obviously, since Kraft allegedly returned to the spa the next day, neither he nor his driver realized that the purpose of the stop was to obtain a copy of his Massachusetts driver's license and confirm his identity.
The first issue is the vagueness of the law. It is illegal to solicit, or induce, another person for sexual activities. Isn't that called dating? Also, all they are saying is that there are images of him going in, getting sex and then leaving money. Nothing in there says he asked to have sex for money. Granted, it sounds like he was a regular (by the way they hugged him and the way his driver took him there regularly). I gave my girlfriend money recently and we had just had sex. Does that mean we committed a crime?
The second issue is that they were specifically pulling over people leaving the place. Is there really probable cause? What did they pull them over for? Speeding, running a red light? Not a complete stop? In either case, why did HE have to produce identification when clearly HE was not the driver?
Finally, what if he went in there and had an actual massage? Simply be going to a place of business, he was the target of entrapment with the stop and request for his driver's license.
Sadly, none of this is going to stop human trafficking in the same way arresting a junkie is not going to stop drug smuggling and dealing. Had Mr. Kraft participated in the same activity in most of the counties in Nevada, he would have done nothing wrong.
ACU / M1/ Sun on Secor Road
Happy to report that nothing has changed here. Same professionally run AMP experience that I've had there in the past.
