The Banks County Sheriff’s Office conducted a sex-for-hire operation in the Banks Crossing area and 11 people were arrested for pandering. Two of those arrested also face drug charges.
One charge is still pending further investigation, chief deputy Shawn Wilson said on Thursday morning.
Wilson said those arrested were calling females soliciting sex for money and then setting up meetings with the females at establishments in the Banks Crossing area.
Those arrested and their charges include:
•Lyles Travis Atwain, 25, 599 Peter Street, Statham, purchase, possession, manufacture, distribution or sale of marijuana and pandering.
•John Charles Brundige, 48, 98 Pine Street, Danielsville, pandering.
•Larry Avery Dalton, 68, 3518 Dover Road, Gainesville, pandering.
•Cuong Nam Dao, 42, 4520 Nohl Crest Drive, Flowery Branch, pandering.
•Tim Edward Durham, 39, 140 Summit Lane, Carnesville, pandering.
•Antone Lyles, 24, 186 Westwood Drive, Athens, pandering and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute.
•Gabriel Franchesco Mayberry, 39, 140 Edgefield Drive, Commerce, pandering.
•John Wesley Meadows, 36, 2967 Eleys Ford Road, Richardsville, Va., pandering.
•Thad Robert Pruitt, 44, 297 Christmas Tree Road, Homer, pandering.
•Horice Keith Segars, 46, 948 Silver Shoals Road, Lula, pandering.
•Mark Lewis Wilmot, 56, 224 Storey Porter Road, Jefferson, pandering and possession of marijuana.
16-6-13
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, a person convicted of any of the offenses enumerated in Code Sections 16-6-10 through 16-6-12 shall be punished as for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature. A person convicted of the offense enumerated in Code Section 16-6-9 shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.
(b) A person convicted of keeping a place of prostitution, pimping, or pandering when such offense involves keeping a place of prostitution for, the pimping for, or the solicitation of a person under the age of 18 years to perform an act of prostitution or the assembly of two or more persons under the age of 18 years at a fixed place for the purpose of being solicited by others to perform an act of prostitution shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of not less than five nor more than 20 years and such convicted person shall be fined not less than $2,500.00 nor more than $10,000.00. Adjudication of guilt or imposition of a sentence for a conviction of a second or subsequent offense when such offense involves keeping a place of prostitution for, the pimping for, or pandering of a person under the age of 18 years pursuant to this subsection, including a plea of nolo contendere, shall not be suspended, probated, deferred, or withheld.
(c)
(1) The clerk of the court in which a person is convicted of pandering shall cause to be published a notice of conviction for each such person convicted. Such notices of conviction shall be published in the manner of legal notices in the legal organ of the county in which such person resides or, in the case of nonresidents, in the legal organ of the county in which the person was convicted. Such notice of conviction shall be one column wide by two inches long and shall contain the photograph taken by the arresting law enforcement agency at the time of arrest, name, and address of the convicted person and the date, time, place of arrest, and disposition of the case and shall be published once in the legal organ of the appropriate county in the second week following such conviction or as soon thereafter as publication may be made.
(2) The convicted person for which a notice of conviction is published pursuant to this subsection shall be assessed the cost of publication of such notice and such assessment shall be imposed at the time of conviction in addition to any other fine imposed pursuant to this Code section.
(3) The clerk of the court, the publisher of any legal organ which publishes a notice of conviction, and any other person involved in the publication of an erroneous notice of conviction shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for such erroneous publication, provided such publication was made in good faith.
and the Police were doing their job.
End of story.You're welcome.
Seriously- it's good that he is leading the charge to clean up the area where he sees fit- although it seems like he is doing all he can to get his name in headlines.
Pandering: to solicit another for a sexual act with you or another person, or to act as a third party to procure a person for sexual activity for monetary compensation or other items of value.
Criminal Solicitation: to attempt to engage another person in the carrying out of a felony act.
Pimping: To receive money for or from a prostitute knowing the money was obtained by prostitution, or to obtain money for procuring, arranging for meeting, providing a place for, or transporting people for the act of prostitution.
Jail house law degrees, and Television Bar Exams are what make the courts a dangerous place. People like you know just enough to sound like you know what you are talking about, but in reality know just enough to direct people in the wrong direction.
And its not a "sexual in counter" unless you are trying to see how many things you can get in, its encounter bright one!!!