'Pittsburgh escorts'
In the picture, Plum is unemployed, facing eviction from her apartment and has no alternative but to drop in on her sneaky cousin Vinnie of Vinnie’s Bail Bonds. The idea is to see if he needs an office assistant. Instead, Plum ends up being hired as a bailenforcement agent.
Her first case is to track down an old high school sweetheart, Joe Morelli (Jason O’Mara). He’s a bail skipper and a former cop, wanted for the murder of a drug dealer.
With help from the mysterious, streetwise Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), Plum finds Morelli, but soon discovers the case is more complicated than she thought.
Thrown in for good comedic measure is a possible informant and wisecracking prostitute (The View’s Sherri Shepherd) and Plum’s oddball grandmother (the Oscar-honoured Debbie Reynolds), who offer her observations, solicited and not.
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January 29th, 2012
A woman reported that that someone she might know entered her Westfield Street home in Beechview, possibly with a key, and stole a safe, money, identification, jewelry and gift cards. The incident was reported Jan. 22 at 10:30 a.m.
A woman told police that someone forced open a side window and entered her Pauline Avenue residence in Beechview. The woman reported the incident on Jan. 18 at 1:30 p.m., and was unsure at that time if anything had been taken.
A man told police that someone forced open a basement window and stole electronics and money from his Wenzell Avenue residence in Beechview. The incident was reported Jan. 22 at 1 a.m.
Theft
A man reported that someone he knew stole jewelry from his Fordham Street home in Brookline. The incident was reported Jan. 21 at 6:09 p.m.
Theft from Vehicle
A man reported that someone entered his unlocked vehicle while it was parked on Palm Beach Avenue in Beechview and removed currency. The incident occurred Jan. 20 between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Arrests
Fabia Ateke of Beechview was arrested for prostitution at Banksville Road and Crane Avenue on Jan. 18.
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January 25th, 2012
Police Bust Prostitution Ring On Banksville Road
Posted: 2:19 pm EST January 19, 2012Updated: 2:27 pm EST January 19, 2012
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police said they have arrested four people accused of being involved in a prostitution ring.
Officials said they busted the ring on Banksville Road earlier this week and arrested Andre Sylvester, Jasmine Horn, Sierrea Hughley and Brittany Gardner.
Police said Horn and Sylvester are from Cleveland and Hughley and Gardner are from Pittsburgh.
The four suspects are due in court Thursday for their preliminary hearing.
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January 19th, 2012
Assistant public defender Jay Finkelstein argued that people convicted of much larger financial frauds received “single-digit” sentences. He asked the court for less than nine years in prison even though Jammie Harris, 47, a Pittsburgh woman who stole roughly $1.1 million after Manos-Becton told her about the accounting glitch, was sentenced to more than nine years in prison last year.
Bloch rejected any leniency and, instead, imposed the stiffest sentence possible under the guidelines, saying Manos-Becton “fails to acknowledge the tremendous role she played in the fraud against this financial institution.”
Veronica Smith, 56, of Pittsburgh, and Manos-Becton’s 25-year-old son, Dimitri Manos, of Coraopolis, have pleaded guilty to lesser roles in the scheme and are scheduled for sentencing Thursday.
Hull argued that Manos-Becton was a career criminal with convictions for burglary, robbery, drug offenses and prostitution _ not to mention more than 20 other convictions for fraud- or theft-related offenses. At the time of the Dwelling House fraud, she was on probation for Florida charges involving a weapons violation and sneaking contraband into a prison in that state, Hull said.
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January 11th, 2012
Assistant public defender Jay Finkelstein argued that people convicted of much larger financial frauds received “single-digit” sentences. He asked the court for less than nine years in prison even though Jammie Harris, 47, a Pittsburgh woman who stole roughly $1.1 million after Manos-Becton told her about the accounting glitch, was sentenced to more than nine years in prison last year.
Bloch rejected any leniency and, instead, imposed the stiffest sentence possible under the guidelines, saying Manos-Becton “fails to acknowledge the tremendous role she played in the fraud against this financial institution.”
Veronica Smith, 56, of Pittsburgh, and Manos-Becton’s 25-year-old son, Dimitri Manos, of Coraopolis, have pleaded guilty to lesser roles in the scheme and are scheduled for sentencing Thursday.
Hull argued that Manos-Becton was a career criminal with convictions for burglary, robbery, drug offenses and prostitution—not to mention more than 20 other convictions for fraud- or theft-related offenses. At the time of the Dwelling House fraud, she was on probation for Florida charges involving a weapons violation and sneaking contraband into a prison in that state, Hull said.
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January 7th, 2012
But U.S. District Judge Alan Bloch decided against leniency, describing Manos-Becton’s criminal conduct as “endless” and saying this case was the latest in “a lifetime spent stealing.”
The small bank in the historically black Hill District had been established to provide loans to people who could not get them elsewhere.
“The victims are really the Hill District residents for whom this institution was established and who benefited from it,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Hull, who prosecuted the case.
Hull said Manos-Becton has prior convictions for burglary, robbery, drug offenses and prostitution, not to mention more than 20 other convictions for fraud- or theft-related offenses, and at the time of the Dwelling House fraud, she was on probation for charges involving a weapons violation and sneaking contraband into a prison.
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January 4th, 2012
Assistant public defender Jay Finkelstein argued that people convicted of much larger financial frauds received “single-digit” sentences. He asked the court for less than nine years in prison even though Jammie Harris, 47, a Pittsburgh woman who stole roughly $1.1 million after Manos-Becton told her about the accounting glitch, was sentenced to more than nine years in prison last year.
Bloch rejected any leniency and, instead, imposed the stiffest sentence possible under the guidelines, saying Manos-Becton “fails to acknowledge the tremendous role she played in the fraud against this financial institution.”
Veronica Smith, 56, of Pittsburgh, and Manos-Becton’s 25-year-old son, Dimitri Manos, of Coraopolis, have pleaded guilty to lesser roles in the scheme and are scheduled for sentencing Thursday.
Hull argued that Manos-Becton was a career criminal with convictions for burglary, robbery, drug offenses and prostitution—not to mention more than 20 other convictions for fraud- or theft-related offenses. At the time of the Dwelling House fraud, she was on probation for Florida charges involving a weapons violation and sneaking contraband into a prison in that state, Hull said.
See the full article from “Lebanon Daily News”
January 4th, 2012
Cranberry police arrested six people in an overnight prostitution sting after an investigation in which they were assisted by officers from Moon Township and Monroeville.
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While local police concede that they have seen an rise in reports of prostitution in recent months, they were quick to stress that this bust was not in response to a prostitution “problem,” but was instead a “proactive measure.”
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Mascellino also said the Holiday Inn Express was not chosen as the sting location because prostitution has been reported there in the past.
“This hotel is not a hot spot…We haven’t had any reports [of prostitution] at that hotel,” he said. “We have at other hotels.”
The following people were arrested and charged with various crimes including promoting prostitution, criminal conspiracy, criminal use of a communication facility, possessing instruments of a crime and prostitution:
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Related Topics: Cranberry Police Department, Moon Police Department, and prostitution sting
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December 1st, 2011
Six arrested in Cranberry prostitution sting
Thursday, December 01, 2011
By Liz Navratil, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Six people were arrested during an overnight prostitution bust in Cranberry.
Late last night and early this morning, undercover officers from Cranberry, Moon and Monroeville met with people who had advertised prostitution services online, Cranberry police said in a statement.
Arrested in the busts were Sherrie Cogley of Sarver; Danielle Tabb of Homestead; Nachell Coleman of Duquesne; Amber Bonnoni of Natrona Heights; Tara Wolfe of New Kensington; and Waylon Brown of Pittsburgh.
Cranberry police described the bust as a “proactive” effort to prevent prostitution from occurring in the area.
“While Cranberry Township does not see significant occurrences of prostitution, the location of major highways coupled with numerous hotels makes it an area where this type of activity is likely,” according to the department’s statement.
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December 1st, 2011
Hinckley came within an inch of killing Reagan: That’s how close the last bullet came to penetrating the president’s heart. The president lost half his blood supply as his left lung was flooded. Had the Secret Service not gotten Reagan to a hospital within minutes, doctors said, he might well have died.
Hinckley wounded a police officer, a Secret Service agent and Press Secretary James Brady before his sixth and final shot ricocheted off the presidential limousine and struck Reagan beneath his left armpit as agents shoved him into the back seat of the vehicle.
Brady, shot in the head, survived against the odds but was so severely injured he was never able to return to his White House duties.
Hinckley had left numerous letters and notes for Foster, a freshman at Yale University, after seeing her in a breakthrough role as a child prostitute in the movie “Taxi Driver.”
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November 30th, 2011
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