So, this showed up in today’s Picayune:
A two-hour undercover operation in Kenner netted the arrest of 14 men for soliciting sex from female police officers, authorities said Friday.
Posing as prostitutes, the officers were sent late Thursday to a section of Airline Drive and a stretch of Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Kenner Police Department spokesman James Gallagher said. The exact locations were not disclosed.
Pretty standard, right? The article goes on to name all 14 johns (which is, BTW, more than ABC has done with its 40-some-odd pounds of “DC Madam” records). And then there’s this:
All were booked with prostitution and crime against nature except Griffin, who was booked only with crime against nature, and Chica-Garcia, Franco and Pridger, who were booked only with prostitution.
Now, I’m guessing that’s supposed to be a point of clarification, but for those not acquainted with Louisiana’s byzantine legal code, it raises way more questions than it answers. I mean, is it supposed to tell us something about the johns’…predilections? Can we assume that Chica-Garcia, Franco, and Pridger are the dullards of the bunch, since they probably didn’t get any? Is Griffin is the brainiac, since he weaseled his way out of paying? Free legal advice, anyone?
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