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Cancer fraud figured sentenced • A suburban Philadelphia woman who admitted lying about having cancer and soliciting donations that she used to pay bills and drug debt has been sentenced to prison. A Montgomery County judge on Monday sentenced Alicia Tolton, 27, to 11 1/2 to 23 months in prison on charges of theft by deception, forgery and other counts. Tolton will also have to serve three years of probation.
Wall Street ‘bad boy’ convicted • A former investment manager known as Wall Street’s “bad boy” was convicted Tuesday of defrauding U.S. and European investors of $140 million, blowing their money on a lifestyle that included private jets, home renovations, prostitutes and strippers. Ross Mandell, 53, shook his head throughout the reading of the verdict that convicted him of conspiracy and securities fraud charges. He was the chief executive officer of the brokerage firm Sky Capital, which had offices in London, New York, Florida and New Jersey.

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An investigation in 2010 by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, U.S, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Clearwater/Tampa Bay area Human Trafficking Task Force led to the arrest of Mario Alberto Laguna-Guerrero, 25.
“This girl was rescued from a nightmare, which could only have gotten worse,” said Gee. “The teamwork among law enforcement agencies cannot be underestimated when it comes to protecting children and the innocent. There is one less predator on the streets, and one more reason that this task force is so valuable.”
If convicted as charged, Laguna-Guerrero faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
That may be one human trafficker who’s now off the streets, said Gee. But there are more lining up to take his place.
According to the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking, human trafficking involves the commercial exchange and exploitation of humans including forced prostitution and pornography, involuntary labor, servitude and debt bondage.

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According to a story by Susan Jacobsen of the Orlando Sentinel, one of the teens was taken to an abandoned home in Orlando and raped by six men, and two men took the other girl to Miami and forced her into prostitution.
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“The teenage victim was located due to an arrest on prostitution charges in South Florida and provided the information regarding the illegal activity in Orange County,” a news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office stated. “This led to the arrest of the suspects listed above.”
Orange County sheriff’s investigators and agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Orlando Police Department arrested 10 people in the case, the Orange County sheriff’s office announced Monday. Charges for the accused men include sex-trafficking, procuring a minor for prostitution, deriving proceeds from prostitution and lewd and lascivious act with a minor.

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… You see them all over the place, massage parlors with signs that say they’re open until 2 a.m. seven days a week,” she said. “What kind of legitimate massage parlor is open until 2 a.m.?”
Other signs indicate directions to a rear entrance so patrons can enter the establishment surreptitiously.
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Working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, Burgin authored a bill in 2009 designed to empower law enforcement.In addition to increasing the penalties for those convicted of the crime, Burgin’s bill would require massage parlor employees to have identification on them at all times.
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Her bill would require massage parlor employees to carry a valid U.S. passport, driver’s license or Employment Authorized Document. That would give law enforcement authorization to request identification, and determine who’s working illegally, she said.

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Stephanie Pierce, the DOT’s project manager, said the state has an uncontested stake on the land and has made no promises. The complaints raised, she said, have been largely driven by the initial shock of seeing construction crews tear apart parking spaces.
And though she sympathizes with businesses’ concerns, Pierce said safety ultimately trumps parking.
Extensive crash data and studies collected between 2003 and 2007 show that Gandy Boulevard had experienced annual crash rates “well below” the statewide average during that span. But they also noted several areas in which “significant amounts of crashes have occurred.” Those areas all corresponded to the intersection of Brighton Bay Boulevard NE and the Derby Lane Greyhound Track entrance, an area close to Kahuna’s Bar & Grill and the Vegas Showgirls strip club, thus far the only business on the boulevard to reach a lease agreement with the DOT.

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Wellington brothel owners the Chow brothers are embroiled in a legal fight over the final payment for work on the collapsed Palace Hotel job in central Auckland.
Chow Group’s case against Clearwater Construction went to the High Court at Auckland for mention yesterday but is yet to get a substantive hearing.
John and Michael Chow want to open a high-rise brothel on the site of the 124-year-old Palace Hotel, which was demolished in November after it began to collapse.
In May, Auckland-headquartered Clearwater won a building disputes adjudication that Chow Group must pay it $837,645.36, the fifth progress payment for the Palace. Adjudicator John Walton also approved the issue of a charging order over the land under a section of the Construction Contracts Act 2002.
That order leaves the Chows locked down, technically unable to sell or transfer the Palace site, which is opposite SkyCity. Charging orders usually expire after two years but can be renewed if Clearwater goes back to court.

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He then “changed his story,” reports said, telling them he was a crime victim who needed help and he would pay them to drive him.
But Joe Stillwell wasn’t really buying his story.
“If someone was really in trouble like he was saying, wouldn’t they come to the front door?” he said.
Stillwell, 33, who works for Pinellas County, said he remained calm, shared knowing glances with his wife and quickly formulated a plan.
“My goal was to play along with his story of needing help, to get him out of the house,” he said.
What the Stillwells didn’t know was that authorities were already searching for the man.
Deputies said that about 45 minutes before he showed up at the Stillwell home, Fox swiped a set of car keys off the bar at OZ Gentlemen’s Club in Clearwater and stole a 2007 Buick from the parking lot.

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He then “changed his story,” reports said, telling them he was a crime victim who needed help and he would pay them to drive him.
But Joe Stillwell wasn’t really buying his story.
“If someone was really in trouble like he was saying, wouldn’t they come to the front door?” he said.
Stillwell, 33, who works for Pinellas County, said he remained calm, shared knowing glances with his wife and quickly formulated a plan.
“My goal was to play along with his story of needing help, to get him out of the house,” he said.
What the Stillwells didn’t know was that authorities were already searching for the man.
Deputies said that about 45 minutes before he showed up at the Stillwell home, Fox swiped a set of car keys off the bar at OZ Gentlemen’s Club in Clearwater and stole a 2007 Buick from the parking lot.

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Seminole man arrested after string of crimes police say began at strip club
By Marissa Lang and Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Posted: Jul 07, 2011 07:00 AM
CLEARWATER — A 23-year-old Seminole man was in custody Thursday morning after a wild night of robbery, carjacking, burglary and resisting arrest that began at a strip club, police said.
It took police, deputies, a helicopter and a police dog to catch Nicholas R. Fox after, officials said, he led law enforcement officers on a chase throughout the county.
It began when Fox left OZ Gentlemen’s Club in Clearwater in a vehicle he stole from another customer about 6:30 p.m. by swiping the car keys from the bar, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
As deputies searched for the stolen car, Clearwater police said they began to pursue Fox after they spotted him firing a handgun he found in the vehicle.

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Seminole man arrested after string of crimes police say began at strip club
By Marissa Lang and Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Posted: Jul 07, 2011 07:00 AM
CLEARWATER — A 23-year-old Seminole man was in custody Thursday morning after a wild night of robbery, carjacking, burglary and resisting arrest that began at a strip club, police said.
It took police, deputies, a helicopter and a police dog to catch Nicholas R. Fox after, officials said, he led law enforcement officers on a chase throughout the county.
It began when Fox left OZ Gentlemen’s Club in Clearwater in a vehicle he stole from another customer about 6:30 p.m. by swiping the car keys from the bar, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
As deputies searched for the stolen car, Clearwater police said they began to pursue Fox after they spotted him firing a handgun he found in the vehicle.

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