San Jose Adult Entertainment: Garrido Home Searched For Abduction Clues

He pointed out that Garrido had been released from prison a few months before Ilene’s disappearance as she walked home from school on Jan. 30, 1989.
“At this point we cannot say that the Garridos are with certainty suspects in this case but certainly we’ve been unable to eliminate them as suspects,” von Savoye said.
There is a $60,000 reward offered in Michaela’s case and a $100,000 reward in Ilene’s, police said.
Several law enforcement agencies previously searched the Garrido property and the one next door after the couple’s arrest on Aug. 26. Police have said the neighbor is not a suspect, but the property is a target of the investigation because Garrido had access to it.
Pittsburg police had looked for clues possibly linking Garrido to the murders of prostitutes but later said they found no evidence to tie Garrido to those cases.

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San Jose Adult Entertainment: City Web Site Lists Services: Sewer, Police, Schools, Porn…

Governments and the Internet go together like water and vinegar. When world leaders aren’t accidentally posting sensitive information about their country’s nuclear sites, or “losing” hundreds of e-mails connected to an ongoing legal investigation, they’re often breaking video-sharing sites, or blocking services like RSS altogether. One branch of the U.S. government was even without Internet access until 2008. (Although, judging from the aforementioned instances of complete buffoonery, it might be better that way.)
Now, Germans have their own tale of an embarrassing government mishap publicly posted on the Internet. According to Reuters, the official site for the city of Gelsenkirchen temporarily listed pornography as one of the services provided by the local administration. Of course, the whole thing started as a simple mistake when an employee, compiling a list of services, thought there was a chance that brothel owners — when looking up information about the city’s sex tax — might search for ‘pornography.’

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San Jose Escorts: 2nd on trial in ‘08 slaying

Hayward is charged with murder and could face up to 99 years in prison if he is found guilty.
His defense attorney, Rick Davis, told jurors that the facts prosecutors presented are in dispute. He suggested that if Hayward struck Miller it was in self-defense and warned jurors to be skeptical of any testimony they heard.
“Witnesses against him aren’t credible people, and they have a motive to lie,” he said in his opening statement.
Prosecutors called witnesses to describe Miller as a troubled 40-year-old who fell under the influence of drugs. He lived in Alaska with his wife and children until a 2007 divorce, when he moved to Bryan.
He worked as a bricklayer, and his boss described him as a good worker. But he began to do drugs and would sneak out of his house to solicit prostitutes, said his father, John Miller.

See the full article from “Bryan College Station Eagle”

San Jose Escorts: Garridos are focus of additional kidnap probes

The searches Tuesday were conducted with the assistance of the Alameda and the Contra Costa sheriff’s departments and the FBI, said Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey.
“Our aim is to methodically, systematically and very thoroughly search the properties with our own cases in mind, knowing what we’re looking for,” Orrey said at a news conference at the scene.
Orrey said the “original agencies that were on the properties searching were not familiar with our cases. We’re taking another shot at the properties to see what we can find.”
Dugard’s reappearance prompted an intensive four-day search in late August of the property where the Garridos allegedly kept her in a backyard compound for 18 years. Pittsburg police said they were trying to determine whether the Garridos were connected to the slayings of 10 prostitutes and a 15-year-old girl in the late 1990s, but authorities later said they had found no evidence to indicate they were.

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San Jose Escorts: Suspected prostitutes arrested in police sting

Arrested and booked into county jail were Vincent Herrera, 32, of Oakland, on suspicion of a parole violation; and Brandon Everly, 28, of San Jose on suspicion of pimping and pandering.
Arrested, cited and released Thursday on suspicion of prostitution, at the same hotel, were Kaitlyn Nelson, 19, San Jose; Theda Kelly, 27, San Jose; and Valerie Schofield, 25, San Jose.

Police are investigating another San Jose man for pimping and pandering, but did not arrest him. Howard said the man drove Schofield, one of the suspected prostitutes, to the site.
Everly drove to the hotel with the 17-year-old female as his passenger. He is accused of being the teen’s pimp, Howard said.
In a typical prostitute-pimp relationship, the woman gives the man a portion of the money she earns in exchange for protection and transportation to and from jobs.

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San Jose Escorts: Analyst Angle: Mobile convergence good for USA

The region combines the device ingenuity of Danger and Apple, the operating system innovation in Android, the communications leap of Twitter, the network powerhouses like Cisco, middleware from Sun’s Java, database specialists like Oracle, content from leading portals like Yahoo, search powerhouses like Google, processor giants like Intel, some 40% of U.S. telecom venture capital activity, corporate VCs, startups of every stripe … and those are just head offices. Add in the requisite field offices from dozens of tier-one operators, and quick links to our media and telecom neighbors in San Diego and Los Angeles and you can see how the region has a powerful effect on the global telecom industry. And the convergence of these formerly separate sectors has helped the USA reclaim an important leadership position in the global industry.
But I don’t intend to spend the whole article pimping my region. My point is that Silicon Valley is a microcosm, representative of the kind of activity that is going on globally, and I’m thrilled to have a front-row seat to see these different sectors converge … sometimes gracefully … usually not.

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San Jose Escorts: Aurora Avenue: Out With the Inn Crowd?

Room 4 is arguably one of the Italia’s nicest—but that doesn’t mean it’s nice. Unforgiving light from the ceiling fixture makes the walls appear a shade of white normally seen only in the complexions of terminal tuberculosis patients. And there’s a hypodermic needle on the counter next to the bathroom sink, a forgotten remnant of some previous tenant’s stay. Keely and Eric argue while navigating the narrow path carved by a thin double-size mattress lying atop an even thinner box spring resting on the bare floor.
As she gets up to leave, Keely doesn’t let Eric know where she’s going, or whom she’s going to be with. Nor does she have a cell phone to call him in case something goes wrong. Eric accuses her of fudging the truth about not turning tricks. “There are better ways to make money,” he says.

See the full article from “Seattle Weekly”

San Jose Adult Entertainment: Garridos are focus of more kidnap probes

The searches Tuesday – which were expected to continue for several days – were conducted with the assistance of the Alameda and the Contra Costa sheriff’s departments and the FBI, police said.
“Our aim is to methodically, systematically and very thoroughly search the properties with our own cases in mind, knowing what we’re looking for,” Orrey said.
Orrey said the “original agencies that were on the properties searching were not familiar with our cases. We’re taking another shot at the properties to see what we can find.”
Dugard’s reappearance prompted an intensive four-day search in late August of the property where the Garridos allegedly kept her. Pittsburg police said they were trying to determine whether the Garridos were connected to the slayings of 10 prostitutes and a 15-year-old girl in the late 1990s, but authorities later said they had found no evidence to indicate they were.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

San Jose Adult Entertainment: Police again search home in Calif. kidnap case

Both departments said Garrido had opportunity. The registered sex offender was out of prison when the girls disappeared.
The Garridos have pleaded not guilty in Dugard’s abduction, rape and imprisonment. The couple is accused of snatching Dugard, then 11, outside her South Lake Tahoe home and holding her captive in a squalid backyard encampment of tents and sheds.
Police said Phillip Garrido fathered Dugard’s two daughters.
Several agencies previously searched the Garridos property and the one next door after the couple’s arrest Aug. 26. Police have said the neighbor is not a suspect, but the property is a target of the investigation because Phillip Garrido had access to it.
Pittsburg police had looked for clues possibly linking the couple to the murders of prostitutes but later said they found no evidence to tie the Garridos to those cases.

See the full article from “Herald Zeitung”

San Jose Adult Entertainment: Howard County police arrest 16 men for soliciting prostitutes

One Laurel man and 15 other people were arrested in a reverse prostitution sting along U.S. 1 in Jessup earlier this month, said Howard County police spokeswoman Elizabeth Schroen.
The effort marked the department’s second operation in two weeks targeting those who solicit prostitutes along Route 1. An Aug. 21 sting in North Laurel resulted in the arrests of 22 men, including 12 Laurel residents.
Schroen said the roadway is a common target for prostitution stings because it is a major commercial thoroughfare and attracts a wide cross section of people. The area also draws a relatively high number of resident complaints regarding prostitution, she said.

Howard County police also conduct stings targeting prostitutes, Schroen said, but they have found the reverse operations are especially effective.
“We’ve had a lot of success with this type, and it has a lot of impact on prostitution,” she said. “If we can deter the customers, then that also has a direct effect on prostitutes.”

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