Meanwhile, a little closer to home…

This just in… the Bellingham Herald reports that three people have been arrested on prostitution-related charges stemming from an investigation of ads placed on Craigslist. Not a big sting, to be sure, but in a small market such as Bellingham, three arrests are probably equivalent to ten times that number in a market like metropolitan Seattle.

Notable features of this story: one arrestee accused of being a prostitute, whose full name was published, was pegged as a Seattle resident. Also, the story mentions that another arrestee will be charge with promoting prostitution in connection with a specific ad. Yes, evidently in Bellingham the police are actually ‘walking the talk’, by taking down a pimp instead of just blustering about how bad they are.