Undercover cops nab 20 alleged johns (names released)

CITY POLICE

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************************* Numerous persons charged with prostitution-related offences

The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, in its ongoing effort to address offences in relation to prostitution, has charged 20 individuals with the criminal offence of obtaining the services of a prostitute.

Members of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, working cooperatively with the residents of the downtown neighbourhoods that have been most noticeably impacted by this activity, took a balanced enforcement strategy that targeted the prospective "clients" of the individuals selling the sexual acts.

This strategy, utilizing undercover police officers, took place between the evening and early morning hours of Thursday the 19th of August through to Saturday the 21st of August.

The latter part of July saw a similar enforcement approach that targeted the individuals selling the sexual acts. This initiative culminated in four persons being charged with soliciting for the purpose of prostitution.

As a result of this most recent sweep, the following persons will be appearing in court on September 13:

- Sixty-two-year old James Hilderly of 872B Hilderly Road, Echo Bay.

- Forty-year-old Christian Fiaschetti of 305 Michipicoten Avenue, Wawa.

- Fifty-two-year-old Donald Davidson of 60 Sutton Place, Sault Ste. Marie.

- Fifty-year-old Peter Misner of 484 Second Avenue, Sault Ste. Marie.

- Forty-seven-year-old Jean-Marc Quenneville of 1 Tomikolake Road, Crystal Falls, Ontario.

- Fifty-three-year old Landon Odom, 111 Palamino Drive, Sault Ste. Marie.

- Thirty-eight-year old Brian Marion of 44 Village Road, Blind River.

- Sixty-nine-year old Lawrence Mauro of 49 Linstedt Street, Sault Ste. Marie.

- Fifty-year-old Scott Craig of 205 Cemetary Road, Echo Bay.

- Sixty-one-year-old Gene Farquhar of 1147 P Line, Richards Landing.

- Fifty-two-year-old Ken Robinson of 86 Royal York Boulevard., Sault Ste. Marie

- Forty-nine-year old Philip Sequin of 87 Stowe Street, South Woodslee, Ontario.

- Forty-one-year-old Daniel Irwin of 2388 20th Side Road, Richards Landing.

- Sixty-five-year old Charles Lindberg of 440 Victoria Drive, Franklin, Ohio.

- Thirty-seven-year-old Jason Conlon of 47 Cambridge Place, Sault Ste. Marie.

- Thirty-three-year-old Dean Shaule of 527 John Street, Sault Ste Marie. - Forty-two-year-old Clint Koch of 42 Caples Road, Heyden.

- Thirty-year-old William Collins of 226 Hurley Street, Echo Bay.

- Seventy-three-year-old Edwin Jondreau of 3 Henrietta Avenue., Sault Ste. Marie. Nineteen-year-old Eric Beer of 117 Andrew Street, Sault Ste. Marie has additionally been charged with one count of possession of a controlled drug (one morphine pill) and one count of breach of probation for failing to keep the peace and be of good behaviour.

The following two persons were charged with obstructing police as a result of this operation:

- Twenty-five-year-old Crystal Hart, 130 Gore Street, Sault Ste Marie.

- Eighteen-year-old Shelbie Zaldiner of 20 Alberta Street, Sault Ste. Marie.

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