Scottsdale police raided a family-operated prostitution ring this week, arresting seven "central figures" and seizing more than $1 million in the culmination of a 2 1 /2-year investigation, officials said.

Scottsdale police raided a family-operated prostitution ring this week, arresting seven "central figures" and seizing more than $1 million in the culmination of a 2 1 /2-year investigation, officials said.

Dave Hutchinson is an unlikely sex crimes detective.

He’s often a lonely guy looking for a lap dance, a massage, or sex. So he calls an escort. But instead of a friendly encounter, the woman’s 300-pound bodyguard — armed with anything from an AK-47 to a stun baton — kicks down the door and steals his cash.

He’s often a lonely guy looking for a lap dance, a massage, or sex. So he calls an escort. But instead of a friendly encounter, the woman’s 300-pound bodyguard — armed with anything from an AK-47 to a stun baton — kicks down the door and steals his cash.

Police arrested a Mesa man Monday on suspicion of raping and kidnapping an 18-year-old woman who worked as an escort.

LONDON - Singer Boy George admits in a recording played in a London court that he restrained a male escort with handcuffs.

ROME, Italy - Thursday was a day of flying and getting settled in Rome, but the hospitality continues from our hosts in Rome and the folks from NBA Europe.

ROME, Italy - Thursday was a day of flying and getting settled in Rome, but the hospitality continues from our hosts in Rome and the folks from NBA Europe.

Five Arizona National Guardsmen were recognized Wednesday before the Arizona Diamondbacks game for their service in Iraq.

NEW YORK - Naomi Campbell, wearing black stilettos and slinging dark work boots over her shoulder, traded the catwalk for community service Monday at a sanitation garage to start a five-day sentence for assaulting her maid.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will end out-of-state extraditions for other Valley police departments, leaving the task in the hands of the agencies who arrested the fugitives before they went on the lam.

Michelle Resendez needed a back massage.

Federal officials arrested the owners and employees of five shuttle operations Thursday that they charge were knowingly ferrying illegal immigrants from Tucson to the Phoenix area.

April 16, 2005

WASHINGTON - Louisiana Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify on behalf of a woman accused of running an upscale Washington prostitution service, attorneys said at the opening of trial.

NEW YORK - The prostitute at the center of the salacious scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and generated national headlines is going to dish on her life as a pricey escort.

One of the ringleaders in the largest prostitution bust in Arizona history will spend three years in prison for his role in the Internet-based prostitution operation. Peter Shifman, 57, of Gilbert, who was the accountant for the Desert Divas Escort Services, was sentenced Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court to three years of prison and seven years of probation, and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.

NEW YORK - A man accused of running an escort service that led to the downfall of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will plead guilty, his lawyer said Monday.