Memphis is cracking down on Prostitution 8 women were Busted

Memphis is cracking down on prostitution within the city limits.

This sting acquired 8 women and one man who was promoting prostitution.



With my research I found that several of the women were over 60.

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48 people lost their job for a rape that did not happen?

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The owner of the security company that hired an accused rapist is speaking out about having to lay off most of his staff. Kroger was Security Point Protective Services largest client, but they fired them after guard Geryl Hill was charged with raping a customer.

Both Kroger and Security Point Protections Services are devastated for the young victim and her family. Also, both regret that a successful seven year partnership has resulted in nearly 50 people losing their jobs.

The alleged actions of 31 year old Geryl Hill has impacted a family, shoppers, and now destroyed the company he worked for, Security Point Protection Services, owned by Huston Atkins.

Police say Hill raped a 25 year old woman after he caught her allegedly shoplifting a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste in the Kroger at the corner of Poplar and Highland.

Hill was an unarmed security guard for Security Point, a company that employed 48 people. Kroger was the the company's only client.

"I had to layoff all my employees," said Atkins. "We were ordered by the Kroger company to vacate the premises."

Kroger announced it was terminating the security contract with Protections Services on Wednesday.

Kroger Spokesperson Joe Bell says the company will use an interim company while it looks for a permanent replacement.

"Our concern first and foremost is our customers. What we didn't want is someone feeling unsafe in a store if they saw a certain security guard or know they worked for a certain company."

Bell says Kroger will review ways to increase security checks on security guards, but Atkins says the state's security licensing system needs to be re-evaluated. He says the state was in the process of revoking Hill's license.

"If a license is being investigated or potentially attempted to be revoked, then that company should be notified of that," said Atkins. "In this case, there was no notification."

In an economy that forces a woman to shoplift a toothbrush, Atkins is now devastated to put his entire workforce out of a job.

"The families of the 48 employees lost their job with four hours notice."

I think their are parts of this story that are being left out, first the woman said that she was stopped in the store, but did agree to have sex with the man if he let her go home. Then when she went home she then called the police. Where is the rape??? Was it going to be a conspiracy to commit a rape? This really does sound quite flaky, lets just wait and see what really happened, because I believe their is more to this story than what is being told!!!

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3 cops busted in corruption case

MEMPHIS, TN - Three Memphis cops were busted by the FBI on Friday, February 26, 2010, in a police corruption case that took MPD Director Larry Godwin by surprise.

Three of his officers, including a veteran of the force, are charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes from a local nightclub owner in exchange for information and protection.

The FBI picked the officers up Friday for questioning. During their interviews, all three admitted to taking payoffs from the club owner. They accepted the bribes from last September up until this week, grabbing the cash while on duty and in uniform.

"I'm fed up with it," Director Godwin said during a news conference at the U.S. Attorney's office just hours after he received word of the arrests. Godwin says he was at a retreat with other top law enforcement officials when he got the news, and he was both shocked and angered by it.

Lt. Tim Green, a 24-year veteran of the department, along with Patrolman Chris Crawford and Patrolman Mike Young face federal bribery and extortion charges.

"I've said that before I retire," Godwin told reporters, "I will rid this department of criminal activity and thugs. And I'm sick of it because it overshadows the hardwork of every good officer in this county."

U.S. Attorney Lawrence Laurenzi says Crawford and Young were paid $100 a pop and Lt. Green received more than $1,000 every time they paid a visit to the club.

Laurenzi says the officers would get paid for "cleaning the lot", forcing patrons to leave the parking lot after the club closed. They also notified the club's owners about police raids and an ongoing OCU investigation. And Lt. Green is accused of falsifying police reports to cover up crimes at the club.

The information and money were usually traded in the club's bathroom or office, and most exchanges were recorded by the FBI on audio and videotape.

Federal investigators say Lt. Green received 11 payments since October, totaling $8,000.

Officer Crawford accepted 14 payments, totaling more than $1,400.

Officer Young received 27 payments, adding up to more than $2,600.

The cops' bribery scheme was discovered while the FBI was conducting an investigation into the club's activities. Their source inside the club, according to investigators, was an individual who was brought in for questioning in September. This person claimed to be a silent partner in the nightclub with a $15,000 to $20,000 investment in the business. That source then began working as a manager at the club and provided federal investigators with most of the information contained in the criminal complaint.

With the arrests of Green, Crawford and Young, this brings the number of Memphis Police Officers accused of wrongdoing in recent months to 23.

"We understand that the community expects and they demand," says Laurenzi, "that there not be corruption in law enforcement. Everybody up here understands that good and effective law enforcement starts with honest law enforcement."

"I'll tell you this," says Director Godwin, "you can send this message: you come on the Memphis Police Department and you think you're going to commit criminal activity, we will lock you up.

Lt. Green is suspended from the MPD with pay. Officers Crawford and Young both resigned. All three have bonds set at $10,000. When released, they'll be subject to home detention and electronic monitoring.

The club owner faces no charges at this time and federal investigators won't identify the nightclub involved, saying it's an ongoing investigation.

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Is the Pastor pimping the church?

Ever Pastor has a story to tell about where they came from, and how God directed him to preach the word. I believe that some Pastors were blessed with the calling from God, although I have heard some stories about some men and women of God that makes me wonder who actually called them to preach, was it God or ???






I have been a member of someones church most of my life and that is how I came to this conclusion that some Pastor are Pimping the members of their church. Of course calling the Pastor a Pimp may not be a good thing, but if the shoe fits then maybe he must wear it.

The headline news is that some members of several congregation have stepped up and spilled the beans. The book "Pimps In The Pulpit" gave you a detail summary of how the Pastor was pimping his Church from the Pulpit and how it was happening everyday. Some people can not see the forest for the trees but their is no excuse for some church members not seeing the subtle signs, "that they are being pimped"!


Lets first look at how a pimp lives his life, I mean the traditional pimps stays in a nice house, he dresses nice, drives a Cadillac and keep a pocket full of money, while constantly being flocked by a group of women he calls his hoes. Please remember that the money the hoes earned payed for all of his worldly goods.

Now I have seen some great men of God and I have nothing to say about them except keep up the good work! Although I have seen some men of God where I thought to my self hmmmmm. Now lets look at our men of God and see how they live, they own a nice house in most cases the church pays the house note, they dress very nice, drive nice cars and some churches even pay their car note, and for some pastors they receive a six figure salary, and they are always surrounded by loyal members of the church who is willing to do anything and everything to help the man of God get exactly what he says the church needs .... Does some of that description sound familiar?


This might be a tell tell sign, if you tithe for years and hit a rough spot in your life and need help and the church says they can only give you a dime when you need a dollar, that sounds like pimping to me baby!

When the Pastor preaches a sermon for hours to support the church wanting you to give your last dollar, so that God can bless you... I don't know about you, but that sounds like you were Pimped!

So please remember that sometimes the best lie is the truth! If it looks like, sounds like, and smells like..... it might be!


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Greed is helping more Churches into Foreclosure

The Pastors of several churches around Memphis has pulled their churches into foreclosures. So my first question is how did this happen?

The Pastors response is that "God told them to do it". Naturally when God tells you to do something he only has the best thought for you in mind, right? Would God give you something to day only to take it away from you tomorrow?

Maybe it was not God that you were talking to, it could have been another powerful God "called Greed"? You see when these pastor makes thousands of dollars a month with a few hundred members they feel that with thousands of members that they could make 10s of thousands of dollars a month.

Unfortunately this is starting to become a common site around Memphis where churches are bellying up from strapped debts acquired from building a new church. The Pastors visions of grander are just that and now they are having to back track and move back to their original church home. Nothing is more demoralizing to have something taking from you because you did not think things through. I wonder how does the Pastor keep a straight face with the church members after they realize he may have stretched the truth?

Okay their is a moral to this story, "Pastors I think that you have to rationalize who is talking to you", because if God talked to you, do you really think you would be on the news explaining why you failed?

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Old white Man kicks young black guys ass!

Since this video showing two men fistfight on an Oakland AC Transit bus hit the internetwebs, a few things have happened. For starters, the female who shot the video, granted CBS 5 an interview.

The fight started, according to the Iyanna Washington who whole captured the fight on film, after the white man asked the black man for a shoe shine. Then, as these charged events tend to go, a fight ensued.

“The black guy was drunk,” Washington went on to presume. “The white guy was…on some kind of drug.”

She goes on to say that the cops arrested the old man who beat up the younger man. When asked to describe the incident in a word, she semi-jokingly responded, “Oakland.”

What a joke, considering that several of the black people on the bus incited that black man to get his ass kicked. Several times the white guy told him he don't mess with me boy. Although you can hear the agitators hyping this guy up. So when does the law permit you to protect yourself? You see if the first guy had not have threw the first punch, their would not have been a fight. I know this is no laughing matter but did someone feed the black guy Wheaties this morning for breakfast? Surly when he woke up this morning he knew then he could not fight... Maybe he was looking at the gray hair and heard the man say that he was 67... That might have been just what he needed to get in a brawl with someone!

Anyway what truly starts the fight is " I see tough guys like you and I slap the shit out of them". Now maybe, just maybe that might have been a indication to leave this guy alone.... The nerve of all those instigators talking about "what" like they were going to fight. After the first punches were thrown all these pity seekers talking that ain't right...

This has got to be the reason that these young guys carry guns. Maybe that is why they are willing to shoot first and fight later.
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When is going to far, going to far?

A Clarksdale family says police went too far during the arrest of a family member, and they say the video they shot proves it. It all started with a traffic stop and ended with more than half a dozen arrests.

I could never imagine back in 1990 when Rodney King was arrested for resisting arrest what would have happen if the video cameras would not have been rolling.

The situation that is happening here went to far and they just expected those guys to shut up and be quiet on their own property.

Unfortunately 2 wrongs don't make a right, maybe the guys should have just shut up and kept their mouths closed. Although if you are not willing to stand for something. you will fall for everything!

Now when this is all said and done these charges what ever they will be will fade to black and disappear. Although I am certain that some lawyer will exercise is option to sue!!!

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