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Escorts' leave the streets to get on the superhighway

Internet sites let customers troll for recommendations and prices. All before anyone meets. And police are having trouble keeping up with it all.

By LEONORA LaPETER
Published July 2, 2006

ST. PETERSBURG - A Citrus County woman in her early 50s advertises on Craigslist that she will "curl the toes" of any man who will buy her Ford van a cheap paint job.

A Tampa woman, a "mature courtesan," offers a "girlfriend experience" and "light sensual domination" on a national escort Web site. Her suggested "donation:" $350 an hour.

And a 27-year-old Clearwater woman, who says she's an "Internet porn star," offers a "tropical storm special" the week Alberto moves past Tampa: $175 an hour instead of her regular $250. Customers can click on more than 300 reviews of her performance, including this from one man: "she is an expert at the art of making love and I will be back."

Many ads such as these are a front for prostitution, say local police, and they're proliferating on the Internet. One reason: Police face increasing public pressure to catch child pornographers and pedophiles who operate on the Web.

At the same time, prosecutions of organized online prostitution have failed in the past, making law enforcement officials skittish about spending taxpayer dollars for little return.

"We do care about it, but we have to be realistic," said Sgt. Jim Bordner of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. "We respond as we receive complaints and we do spot checks. But you're talking about a misdemeanor violation and the type of investigation you'd have to do in terms of manpower, it's very costly."

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office discovered that four years ago when it tried to bring down Bigdoggie.net. Detectives then called the Tampa-based Web site a "worldwide Internet prostitution ring." Sex consumers around the country and the world could scroll through a menu of local escorts and their hourly rates. The arrest of the site's operators and about a dozen escorts on 57 charges, including racketeering, conspiracy and prostitution, made headlines nationwide.

But the case, which took detectives more than a year to put together, unraveled inside a Tampa courtroom in a matter of months. Operation Flea Collar cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars and culminated with all charges being dropped against 13 defendants except for a few minor prostitution charges.

Police had hoped the case would become the standard for future prosecutions, a way to bring down the escort malls that have popped up all over the Internet. (It is not illegal to advertise sex on the Internet or receive money to be an escort; it only becomes illegal when sex is traded for money.)

Investigators today, however, are having to go after Internet prostitutes the way they do street walkers: one by one. A June 12 arrest of a 40-year-old man detectives found on Craigslist was the first Internet prostitution arrest Hillsborough had made in six months, one of its investigators said.

"People don't need pimps anymore," said Robyn Few, a semiretired prostitute and founder of the Sex Workers Outreach Project in San Francisco who went to high school in Clearwater. "Women have become their own entrepreneurs on this. ... More and more women and men are starting to use the Internet as a tool. ... It's easier. In fact, nothing is easier in this criminal life."

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On March 13, 2002, a 64-year-old engineer arrived at a Tampa hotel room to meet with an escort named Lia Nice, police reports show.

He offered her chocolates and wine and carried a VCR, adult videos, a CD player and condoms. He handed her a greeting card: "Are you just using me for sex? Because I want you to know I'm OK with that."

It was signed: "I hope we both like each other and this will only be our first date, XOXO, Don."

Inside the card was $500.

When he asked for oral sex, police arrested him. "Lia Nice," was actually a confidential informant arrested on drug charges. She had agreed to help police with Bigdoggie in return for leniency in her case. In March 2002, Nice helped arrest at least six men at a Tampa hotel room who had solicited her services using the site.

"What Lia Nice did was open the door to some of the more prominent hobbyists (the name in the escort industry for men who visit a lot of prostitutes) who came forward and were caught soliciting a prostitute," said Sgt. Donald Bowling, the case's lead investigator.

The 64-year-old man told Bowling that he had been with up to 40 prostitutes listed on Bigdoggie.

Detectives offered the men leniency in return for testimony against other prostitutes and Bigdoggie's operators.

In June 2002, Bowling went to a judge and got arrest warrants for Charles Kelly and Steve Lipson, the Web site's operators, and a dozen Bigdoggie escorts. A month later, a judge said Bigdoggie was facilitating prostitution and ordered the site shut down.

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Some 10,000 pages of arrest and court records, which include interviews with prostitutes, paint a picture of Bigdoggie as a site run by two computer guys who frequented prostitutes.

Kelly, an Army veteran who lived with his wife in Tampa, had worked at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., and also was a Realtor and in the computer industry, according to Hillsborough arrest reports. Lipson, then of Boca Raton, was at the time president of a company called Computer Coach Inc. and owner of Vision Quest Media.

One confidential informant alleged in Hillsborough arrest records that Kelly had started out in 1998 on a message board called Decadent City, posting a top-10 list of the women he had paid for sex.

Several prostitutes and johns in those same arrest reports alleged the following:
* Kelly, who was known as "The Big Dog," started Bigdoggie in 1999 to promote prostitution and became notorious for trading sex for money, advertising and a ranking on his top-10 list. * Lipson managed the business end of the business, including billing. One prostitute told police that he was also the moderator of Bigdoggie's Miami message board.

By the time detectives arrested Kelly in June 2002 - two years after he had launched the site - he was listing his income at $18,000 a month, court records show.

Police were able to show Bigdoggie reached into multiple Florida counties so it was assigned to statewide prosecutor Chris Brown in the Office of the Attorney General.

But once in court, the case stalled.

Police and prosecutors hesitated in turning over the identities of the men testifying against Bigdoggie because threats had been made against them on the site.

Defense lawyers countered that full disclosure was necessary.

In October 2002, they finally received more than 5,000 documents from prosecutors, plus a cache of CD-ROMs and cassettes. Among the documents: names and addresses of the men.

But it was too late. The judge ruled the defendants' rights to a speedy trial were jeopardized and dismissed the case.

"There were several orders to disclose things like the johns and they wouldn't do it and it ended up being dismissed," Circuit Court Judge Debra K. Behnke said in a recent interview.

The judge's decision could have been appealed, Brown said, but Charlie Crist was taking over the Attorney General's Office from Bob Butterworth and a decision was made to let it go.

"There's no doubt in my mind that Bigdoggie was facilitating prostitution," Brown said. "There never was a ruling that it wasn't a crime. There was a ruling that speedy trial was violated."

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Today, Hillsborough detectives look back at the Bigdoggie case and say it is unlikely they will ever repeat such a complicated investigation.

Operation Flea Collar "was so time consuming," said Sgt. Bruce Woodbury of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. "Two detectives worked nonstop on that case for months on end and they were unavailable for any other type of investigation."

Local police vice units say there is a continuous tug of war for resources. "I'm forced to make a choice between that case and the same detective working on a pedophile case or a kiddie porn case," said Woodbury.

Police also say they need to maximize their arrests. "For me to go after a bulletin board like (Bigdoggie), it's like cutting a finger nail on a giant," said Paul Winsett, a corporal with the Orange County Sheriff's Office vice unit. "It's not going to get anywhere."

No one really knows how many prostitutes are online, but there is no shortage of escorts. On one national site alone, - and there are many - 180 women from the Tampa Bay area advertised their services this past week. Prices averaged from $150 to $500 and up an hour.

The Internet allows many escorts to go on "tour," from city to city, advertising in local Web sites. Some even "tour" foreign countries.

Though one or two escorts contacted by e-mail and telephone told the Times they were only offering men their time - nothing more - half a dozen said they were prostitutes.

Police say they still go after online prostitutes when there is a complaint. That's how Hillsborough detectives arrested Curtis Eugene Nissly, a 40-year-old Largo man who advertised on Craigslist as a bisexual. Detectives called Nissly's ad and arranged to meet him. Once he accepted money for sex, Nissly was arrested.

Craigslist, which says it has about 10-million visitors a day, allows people to place notices for free. In recent months, police in New York, Oregon and Washington have charged almost a dozen people who advertised on Craiglist with prostitution.

"As police become more technically savvy, it's just a natural progression that they're going to be coming onto the Internet," said David R. Elm, founder of the Erotic Review, a Web site that allows men to review escorts and gets about 250,000 visitors a day.

Prostitutes listed on escort sites said they still worry about police stings, but most said they know how to spot law enforcement and use the Internet to protect themselves.

Many ask their customers for at least two references from fellow prostitutes. Customers, meanwhile, use reviews to make sure they're not walking into a police sting.

Authorities say it is this online networking in a close-knit community that makes it tougher to crack down on online prostitution. Many post memos to prospective clients telling them to place the money in an envelope on the dresser but to never, ever talk about it or what they want for it once they get there or they will be asked to leave.

In fact, most transactions are outlined online - well before the customer ever arrives.

Today, the domain name Bigdoggie.net is registered to a domain-name holding company. A message was sent to Bigdoggie through that company. The Times did not receive a response.

Lipson, 43, reached in South Florida, said he no longer is connected to Bigdoggie. Kelly, 55, now a realtor, said through his attorney that he also was not affiliated with the site.

Bigdoggie, his namesake, meanwhile, now dubs itself "the Net's #1 Escort Resource."

About two dozen women from Tampa, St. Petersburg or Clearwater are listed on the site.

Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.