Old 2002 Busted Escort Agency? Anyone remember them?
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Dave, Gabrielle and Daves brother? Each of them owned an agency and the 3 agencies were all run out of a Danforth St. house/fortress location. They had 90% of the yellow pages ads during the '90's. Started up in the mid '80's and ran out of a Bay St condo to begin with. They were charged when they hired a drivers girlfriend who was underaged. All 3 were charged but Dave was the only conviction. I believe he got 18 months and a fine. I miss them, if they were still around when I came back to Canada I would have moved to Toronto instead of Ottawa and stayed an agency girl.
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That's interesting. I heard from a couple of girls back then that they weren't very nice people to work for.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2002/04/06/prostitution_bust020406.html
Also:
http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-04-08-0014.html
"I expect there are a lot of people quitting their jobs this weekend now they know what can happen if they're caught."
The investigation has now entered its second phase, where police will follow up with interviews of people and digging through seized paperwork.
Toronto Police sex exploitation section Det. Steve Tracy said police have received calls from eight to 10 victims under 18.
He said police intend to call everyone on seized client lists to track down teen prostitutes who haven't come forward.
"I'm not interested (in the clients); I'm interested in the information they can provide," he said yesterday. "It will be a lengthy investigation."
Operation Pebble Beach, which spanned 18 months, resulted in the seizure of $3 million in assets, including $1 million from 42 bank accounts, seven luxury cars, computers, jewelry and several properties from the agencies' alleged owners, David Allan, 43, his wife Rachel, 25, and his brother Richard, 44.
Yesterday, Rachel Allan was denied bail.
Police also found four kilos of pot in two cars during the raids.
Police searching Allan's large Kingston-area farm, which he owned with his brother, found evidence of an inactive pot-growing operation, sources said.
Allan's son, Geoff Canadien, 23, pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2000, to trafficking pot after the OPP raided the farm a year earlier.
I would assume if agencies just have legal age workers, no pot or other issues they would not have serious LE concerns.
Earlier Initial Report 4/5/02 from Thestar.com > News
A "john with a conscience" alerted police to a massive southern Ontario prostitution ring after being shocked to discover he'd had sex with a 16-year-old, officials said today as they announced what's believed to be Canada's largest bust. (On a Toronto board someone commented, "I like big busts, but not of this kind. )
The unusual tip led police to a Toronto-based criminal group that operated out of several escort services and victimized scores of women — many of them underage, said the city's police chief. "In the old days they used to call it the white slavery trade," said Julian Fantino. Fantino added that many of the victims appear to be as young as 16.
But the operation itself involved dozens of supposedly legal agencies fronting for pimps, comprising about "90 per cent" of escort advertisements in the city's yellow pages, said police. The agencies' owners spent an estimated $800,000 a year on ads spanning 20 pages in the phone book. Police believe the ringleaders were based out of a fortified home in east-end Toronto that was fitted with steel doors and shatter-resistant Plexiglas windows. "It was as if a biker gang operated there," noted Const. Deborah Abbott.
Three of the people arrested are believed to be the owners of the ring: David John Allan, 43, wife Rachel Allan, 25, and Richard Allan, 44. They and nine others who worked as call-takers and drivers each face charges of living on the avails of prostitution, conspiracy to live on the avails of prostitution, exercise control, and conspiracy to exercise control. The john who sparked the investigation wasn't charged, he said.
The case is the latest in a disturbing trend in which younger and younger children are lured into prostitution through supposedly legitimate agencies. Two weeks ago, Toronto police arrested a group of people who had abducted a 14-year-old from eastern Canada and forced her to work as a prostitute through a massage agency. "It's a wake-up call for society to come to realize that we have some very, very serious problems in our society that need to be dealt with," Fantino said of the latest case. In January, a young prostitute-turned-pimp was given a year's probation after convincing a developmentally handicapped 16-year-old runaway to sell sex for cash in Toronto. The then-14-year-old girl, who said she began turning tricks at age 12, paired up with a male pimp, rented a hotel room, arranged the tricks and set the price. Last July, a 15-year-old Vancouver girl was charged with forcing a 13-year-old girl into prostitution after meeting at a group home. A few weeks later, the younger teen was walking Vancouver's notorious kiddie stroll. Last summer, a judge dismissed a case against three Americans accused of pimping an 11-year-old last February when the child's videotaped testimony was disallowed as evidence.
I don't ever remember anyone underage altho I didn't know all the girls that worked. They were strict with verifying ID when they hired me and ran a really tight ship but I ALWAYS made money. Book on and make money, no administration and no hassles, go home and have a life. If you took your work seriously and didn't play games, they were solid.
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I ironically knew a woman back in 2001 named R. Allen who lived on the same street as them and would get police and "heavies" come to her door regularly thinking it was Richard Allen's address. She told me it was quiet frightening and told me a few stories.
There was a front page Toronto Star article in 2002 that talked in detail about how a client saw a girl from this agency and she had revealed she was underage and the client later called the police. It began the investigation that later toppled this disgusting operation.
There was a front page Toronto Star article in 2002 that talked in detail about how a client saw a girl from this agency and she had revealed she was underage and the client later called the police. It began the investigation that later toppled this disgusting operation.
This is ancient history. Why the question now? Any underage woman in 2002 is probably of age by now.
