by Raisa Habersham, AJC — More than a dozen people were arrested in a prostitution sting in Hall County, the sheriff’s office said Monday.
Authorities on Friday set up shop along Friendship Road in Buford, where men and women were looking for or selling sex, Hall sheriff’s spokesman Don Scalia said.
Officials posed as prostitutes or panderers to make the arrests, Scalia said.
Michael Wayne Alexander, charged with pandering;
In all, 13 people were arrested on various charges that included pimping and possession of marijuana. Scalia identified them as:
Stevie Dienelle Brown, charged with pandering and possession of marijuana;
Chiquita Rene Frazier, charged with prostitution;
Tony Randall Hortman, charged with pandering;
Yaphett Jackson, charged with pandering;
Donald James Lyle, charged with pandering and possession of marijuana;
Daryel Donnell McGarnett, charged with pandering, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, and possession of marijuana;
Walter Samir Pineda-Lopez, charged with pimping;
Tauran Lamont Prichett, charged with pandering and possession of marijuana;
Daris Darnell Ridley, charged with prostitution;
Hugo Vicente Torres, charged with pandering;
Julian Norris Turnipseed, charged with pandering;
and Luz Maricela Holdsworth Vining, charged with prostitution.
The sheriff’s office tries to set up a few stings each year, Scalia said.
“Once contact is made and probable cause is established,” he said, “the arrest is effected as quickly as possible.”