Ormond Beach, FL - An undercover Backpage.com prostitution operation has led to 6 arrests, including 2 men who were driving women to the hotel.
In the operation, an undercover investigator posed as a customer at an Ormond Beach-area hotel on Tuesday and used Backpage.com to contact women who agreed to sex acts in exchange for cash. Speaking about Backpage.com, VCSO spokesman Andrew Gant said, "certainly there is legitimate business done on there, you know classifed ads for various things. But there is sort of a seedier side to it that we're trying to basically infiltrate and disrupt that activity."
The 6 people arrested are:
This operation was headed by the East Volusia Narcotics Task Force with help from the Ormond Beach Police Department and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
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