What is the name of your state? New Jersey
Here is what everyone should know about being caught picking up a prostitute. I am grateful about how lucky I got … I would like our judges to comment on the situation:
I got lost driving through Paterson in New Jersey and found myself in a street infested with hookers. I saw a decent looking hooker on a street corner and thought to myself that for $20 I can get some entertainment and directions afterward, so I stopped to pick her up at the intersection. A police car happened to come out of no where while the prostitute was partially inside my car … the policeman opens his window and asks her to step out of the car … so he could start the investigation. I found myself saying: Officer, she just asked me for a ride, that’s all. The girl said: it is my fault, I asked him for a ride.
To make the story short, 2 more police cars showed up, they drilled the girl, but appears that she held to my story, so did I, and it was difficult … the policeman would say: I will ask you one last time …. Then will say: this is not what she is saying … and there I was behind my car …. I was asked if I had anything in my car which the policeman should know about, but I did not. The officer let the girl leave, then gave me a ticket for “unloading on a curb” and asked me to get the sell out of there … so I did, but this is not the exciting part about the incident.
After driving for 5 minutes, I realized that the girl left a light coat inside my car. Inside one of the pockets were condoms and chewing gum, and inside the other were 11 tiny bags of cocaine along with a glass pipe and a lighter … the whole kit.
I realized that the incident could have resulted in a conviction of soliciting a prostitute, another conviction of possessing drugs with intent to sell, getting my car towed, getting arrested, having to post bond, contacting a friend in the middle of the knight, having my name in the town newspaper, having my employer and family know, serving time, paying fines, paying a lawyer, doing community service and probation, in addition to any other charges I did not think of. Our judges on this forum can add from their experience.
The other point I want to clarify is that: there is no safe way to pickup a prostitute and make sure she is not a decoy. You can pickup a conviction by doing the standard stupidities which John’s do to ensure she is really a prostitute …. Judges and policemen have seen it all. Our judges can attest to that and provide examples too.
Last, I would like to say that I picked up street prostitutes more often than you eat pizza, and it is all a hollow experience …. I realized it after this “almost” arrest. I am a professional and could have seen my future going down the tubes with such a conviction. I thought it was fun for a while, but I almost destroyed myself and everything I have built with just this one incident.
I would like to ask this law community and judges to elaborate from their experience on the subject and give examples of how serious the repercussions could have been.
Here is what everyone should know about being caught picking up a prostitute. I am grateful about how lucky I got … I would like our judges to comment on the situation:
I got lost driving through Paterson in New Jersey and found myself in a street infested with hookers. I saw a decent looking hooker on a street corner and thought to myself that for $20 I can get some entertainment and directions afterward, so I stopped to pick her up at the intersection. A police car happened to come out of no where while the prostitute was partially inside my car … the policeman opens his window and asks her to step out of the car … so he could start the investigation. I found myself saying: Officer, she just asked me for a ride, that’s all. The girl said: it is my fault, I asked him for a ride.
To make the story short, 2 more police cars showed up, they drilled the girl, but appears that she held to my story, so did I, and it was difficult … the policeman would say: I will ask you one last time …. Then will say: this is not what she is saying … and there I was behind my car …. I was asked if I had anything in my car which the policeman should know about, but I did not. The officer let the girl leave, then gave me a ticket for “unloading on a curb” and asked me to get the sell out of there … so I did, but this is not the exciting part about the incident.
After driving for 5 minutes, I realized that the girl left a light coat inside my car. Inside one of the pockets were condoms and chewing gum, and inside the other were 11 tiny bags of cocaine along with a glass pipe and a lighter … the whole kit.
I realized that the incident could have resulted in a conviction of soliciting a prostitute, another conviction of possessing drugs with intent to sell, getting my car towed, getting arrested, having to post bond, contacting a friend in the middle of the knight, having my name in the town newspaper, having my employer and family know, serving time, paying fines, paying a lawyer, doing community service and probation, in addition to any other charges I did not think of. Our judges on this forum can add from their experience.
The other point I want to clarify is that: there is no safe way to pickup a prostitute and make sure she is not a decoy. You can pickup a conviction by doing the standard stupidities which John’s do to ensure she is really a prostitute …. Judges and policemen have seen it all. Our judges can attest to that and provide examples too.
Last, I would like to say that I picked up street prostitutes more often than you eat pizza, and it is all a hollow experience …. I realized it after this “almost” arrest. I am a professional and could have seen my future going down the tubes with such a conviction. I thought it was fun for a while, but I almost destroyed myself and everything I have built with just this one incident.
I would like to ask this law community and judges to elaborate from their experience on the subject and give examples of how serious the repercussions could have been.