Gadsden Prostitution solicitation arrests

Complaints about prostitution in the East Gadsden area has led The Gadsden Police Department’s Special Projects Team to make a number of arrests.  An operation Friday on the west side of Gadsden that resulted in 10 arrests for solicitation of prostitution was spurred by women complaining that men were approaching them as they walked to work, asking to buy sex.  An officer with the Special Projects Team said authorities had not been aware of the problem, but quickly found out the scenario the women described was accurate.  On Friday, the team worked with a female officer who was walking on  Forrest Avenue, beginning at about 11 a.m. She was on the street an estimated three hours, allowing for the time it would take to process someone after an arrest.  The men arrested ranged in age from 19 to 71. There were five white men arrested, three black men and two Hispanic men.  One of them had just gotten out of prison the day before.