A young Doylestown woman was in jail Tuesday facing prostitution charges after an undercover operation at the Days Inn in Doylestown.
The man police say was her pimp also was arrested in the police operation Monday evening, Doylestown Police Chief Jim Donnelly said.
Kimberly Anne Eastlake, 18, of Miladies Lane was charged early Tuesday with prostitution and disorderly conduct.
She was sent to the in lieu of $50,000 bail - a far different place than where she was this time last year. Eastlake was a senior at last spring, where she was listed in April as having made the honor roll.
The case unfolded quickly, Donnelly said.
“We got a call from the county detectives who were working on another job and this came up during their work,” the police chief said Tuesday. “They told us she was advertising on a website, using the Days Inn, the old Courthouse Inn, as her location for operation.”
Eastlake was advertising as “Vanessa” on backpage.com, listing an "Easter special" and asking for "serious callers only."
"Only in town for a little while! Can you show me a good time while I'm here? Because I sure can show you one!" reads her ad, accompanied by photos of herself in a bra and panties.
Donnelly said a police officer posed as a customer and arranged to meet Eastlake at the motel on North Main Street.
“When the undercover went in, he asked for certain things, and she’d give him the price,” Donnelly said.
She offered $150 for sex, and the officer arrested her.
Also arrested was the man police say was her pimp, Castavetti Braggs, 20, of Blair Mill Road, Willow Grove. Braggs was turned over to Montgomery County, where he was wanted on an outstanding warrant, Donnelly said.
Eastlake was arrested around 8:30 p.m. Monday at the , Donnelly said. She was arraigned by video conference at midnight from the intake office at the county’s community corrections center in Doylestown Township.
This is the borough's first recent prostitution case; the last such arrest was five or six years ago, Donnelly said.
“I don’t see it as an ongoing problem. It was an isolated opportunity for them,” the chief said, adding “There’s definitely a drug connection.”
“It’s a shame, an 18-year-old girl getting involved in something like this.”
Soul sucking narrow-minded town? LOL. Wait, I thought selling yourself for money was illegal? As far as your quote..."Expect Resistance" perhaps you are blogging from a tent at some OWS camp? Scary.
As for the typical name calling by someone who is completely intolerate of someone having a different opinion than themselves....it's been noted.
Echoing Jennifer, reading this variety of thought makes me endlessly happy to have left my hometown and found a place to live where small-minded cruelty is, if not eradicated, less acceptable. Shame on Doylestownian commentors for making expats grateful to have escaped. Kimberly, keep your head high; I hope you are able to put this past you and realize that regardless of your actions, future or past, you are not the product of other people's opinions and you are a worthwhile, intelligent woman capable of accomplishing what you desire.
And, what on earth would make you ask me why I wasn't commenting somewhere else? That's just strange.
Shame on doylestown commentors? What is it that you find so reprehensible about the comments here? And this..... "intelligent woman capable of accomplishing what you desire." What????
Flunked out of the police academy? huh? Also, who said I didn't "feel" for the girl, or especially her family? She needs help, and now she will get it. I suppose her living at the days Inn is preferable to you? Were you a customer or something? I mean what the hell is going on here with you? I judge no one...but, if you break the law you will be punished. That is the way society works. Thank God you don't run it.
Comparing selling yourself for money to a traffic ticket is completely absurd. What do you mean LIVE WITH IT? When did I say that probation or rehab wouldn't be suitable? Get out of your la la land. You don't even know what you are talking about now. Also....Comparing selling yourself for money to a traffic ticket is completely absurd.
Where are their picture's? Their personal information? Where they work? ETC...?" This statement makes sense to you? What? What do you mean sensationalized? Where? She is over 18, she is old enough to have sex for money, but not have her picture posted? What in the hell are you talking about????
One more thing. I posed for pictures too. And yes, the famous Cookie Jar paid me a LOT of money to do it. My big regret from that was that he posted them on the internet after I specifically asked him not to. That's another reason I feel bad for Kimberly, although in her case it was insensitive law enforcement officers and/or journalists who shamed her. She's 18 for God's sake! In my case it was scumbag Cookie Jar whose selfishness and deceitfulness I resent to this day. I hope law enforcement will pick him up and plaster his photo all over the newspapers. Perverts who lure young girls for their selfish desires deserve as much notoriety as the victims they use and then forget about. Kimberly if drugs are a problem, there is hope. You can and should beat it. If you are just earning a living without hurting others, then who are we to pass judgment.
Same goes for her manager or agent (who the article refers to using the derogatory street term "pimp" in the article), as far as we know. If there's no victim, there is no crime. Police and prosecutors should stop wasting taxpayer money on stuff like this. Prostitution, the "world's oldest profession", should be decriminalized. Please support the Sex Workers Outreach Project (www.swop-usa.org), Erotic Service Providers Union (www.espu-ca.org), and Libertarian Party (www.lp.org), in their efforts to allow people to choose how to peacefully live their own lives.
As noted by "Neighbor," I, too, live in this neighborhood. I have kids. Families walk by this place all the time, as do patrons of Pocos, many of whom have small kids. Not that it's the most important issue here, but the room she was using faces the neighborhood side, not the bank side. I would ask you if you want to live near a building where johns (generally recognized as undesirable) are running in and out to pay for sex. Would you want to worry about a pimp sitting in the parking lot while you walk by, with or without your family? Is it a reach to say that, if the Days Inn were a safe spot for prostitutes like Eastlake, that pimps and drugs could also be present? And further, that such an element would try to make inroads with the kids and teenagers who walk by on a fairly regular basis? I applaud the Doylestown Police Department for minimizing the likelihood that something far worse than prostitution might impact my community. Keep up the good work.